Business Technologies (MSc / Postgraduate Diploma) - 2013/2014 entry

Modern information technologies have changed the very nature of business, by creating and eliminating markets, altering business models, and setting new rules for communication. There are now significant career opportunities for people who master modern sophisticated technologies and understand their impact on an organisation's long-term plans, programmes and initiatives.

The programme offers a strong foundation in technology management and technology-based innovation, along with an understanding of sophisticated and emerging information technologies, and of how these can be utilised in order to gain a competitive advantage in today's business environment.

For students with a strong computing background, the programme offers updated skills and knowledge of modern information and data management technologies, along with an understanding of the important link between technology and management.

Lastly, for those already working in business environments that heavily depend on information technology, the programme offers knowledge and skills in the design, development and management of modern and emerging information and data management technologies, along with an understanding of how to take advantage of the changes and possibilities technology can bring in a competitive and technology-driven business environment.

• Focuses on both sophisticated computing technologies and their management, and on technology-based innovation.
• Successful integration of technical and managerial consideration is considered critical for modern technology-driven businesses.
• Brings together world-class researchers in computer science and management, and combines their expertise to address the needs of the modern business environment.

Take the compulsory modules Research Methods in Management, Intellectual Capital and Competitiveness, and Data and Knowledge Management, and undertake a substantial project. You also select five modules from the following groups:

Information and Technology Management/Technology-based Innovation (up to two modules):

• Creative Industries and Knowledge Economy
• Economics and Governance of Innovation and Institutions
• Entrepreneurship and Innovation
• E-Business Strategy and Policy
• Innovation: Management and Policy
• Innovation Systems, Networks and Social Capital.

Technology Development and Implementation (up to four modules):

• Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• Information Retrieval and Organisation
• Internet and Web Technologies
• Intelligent Technologies
• Object-Oriented Design and Programming
• Component-Based Software Development
• Computational Intelligence
• Search Engines and Web Navigation
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing.

The project provides an opportunity for you to investigate an aspect of the subject that particularly interests you. Projects should involve technology development and/or implementation, and discuss or evaluate technology with regards to how it affects organisational knowledge, social capital, and quality of communication in an organisation.

The department allows 24-hour access to dedicated laboratories of networked PCs with a range of language compilers, database and other application software, and is connected, via the SuperJANET network, to the computers of other academic institutions in London, elsewhere in the UK and abroad.

If you are interested in further research, we offer a PhD/MPhil in Computer Science and Information Systems.

Graduates go on to careers in software engineering, information systems management, IT management, planning and software development, consultancy and research.

• Find out more about the application process.

• Applications should be submitted as early as possible.