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MS-ISM custom track
Add a third-semester custom track to maximize the value of your Master of Science in Information Systems Management (MS-ISM) program. Including four courses of your choosing, the MS-ISM custom track builds upon your core curriculum with complementary skills and experiences that prepare you for dynamic career opportunities. Expand your knowledge in critical areas, while adding just one more semester to your degree.
Choosing to add an optional third-semester track will extend the length of your program. Adding a track will also impact your overall program cost. Prerequisites may be required for some courses. Ask a recruiter to learn more.
Customize your curriculum
MS-ISM students who add the custom track can select four courses from any of the following areas, including topics in computer information systems, financial technology, marketing, accounting, and supply chain management.
Applied AI and business analytics
Drive innovative organizational change and improve business performance with artificial intelligence and data analytics. These courses focus on the technical aspects of information systems and the practical application of analytical tools and techniques in business operations, adding strong AI skills and perspectives to your core program.
A small class emphasizing discussion, presentations by students, and written research papers.
Charting a roadmap for data-driven decision making and getting a practical understanding of how IT tools and techniques can allow managers to extract predictive analytics and patterns from primarily numeric data.
Presents frameworks and approaches to equip students to recognize patterns in data and models, recommend actions and implement organizational changes. Students learn multiple concepts to improve decision making in organizations including the curation of data repositories for cross-functional analytics, recognition of decision biases, recommendation and communication of business process changes, and the establishment of iterative processes for decision analytics. Readings address decision-making dilemmas and challenges facing managers in analytics-rich business environments. Students get an immersive experience in analyzing the individual biases inherent in decision making, the informational requirements and the data analytics governance requirements to ensure effective deployment and continuous renewal of analytics culture at the enterprise level.
Uses tools and techniques to analyze unstructured data that are applied to business problems to support informed decision making and the extraction of predictive analytics and patterns from primarily nonnumeric data.
Financial technology
The application of information systems management streamlines transaction processing and enhances security protocols to meet consumer demands for security and efficiency. These courses will equip you with the technical and analytical skills to excel in the evolving FinTech industry.
Empirically investigates properties of financial data such as basic probability theory, matrix algebra, ordinary least squares, and maximum likelihood estimation. Explores these methods both through algebraic derivation and programmed implementation in PYTHON. Provides the basis for portfolio optimization by focusing on the estimation and testing of financial factor models.
Investigates financial data by using techniques such autoregressive and vector-autoregressive models, dimension-reduction techniques motivated by latent factor models and machine learning dimension-reducing techniques. Explores these methods using algebraic derivation and implementation in PYTHON. Builds on the statistical and programming skills developed in FIN 509 and emphasizes forecasting for the optimization of portfolios.
Blockchain is a revolutionary technology incorporating aspects of data science, economics, computer science, and law. The course allows students to obtain basic understanding of the blockchain technology as it relates to financial technology (FinTech) with applications to cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and decentralized finance.
Presents the fundamental principles of risk and return, portfolio diversification, asset allocation, efficient markets, active portfolio management, portfolio evaluation. Reviews selected alternative investment strategies such as hedge fund investments.
Intermediate- to advanced-level course in derivative assets such as options, forward and futures contracts, swaps and financial engineering.
Develops analytical techniques and financial theories used to make optimal decisions in a corporate setting.
Explores modern artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology, applications, techniques and their implications for finance.
Marketing
Information systems management and marketing intersect to empower organizations with data-driven insights into consumer behavior, competitors, and market trends. Learn to collect and analyze data to segment consumers, automate marketing campaigns, and track real-time performance. These courses deliver essential skills to drive impactful outcomes for businesses of all sizes.
Some of a firm's most valuable assets are its brands. Building and effectively maintaining brand equity is one of a firm's top priorities. This course provides an understanding of strategic brand management and provides students with insights into how sustainable and customer-centric brand strategies can be created and leveraged over time.
Managing the marketing function; market and environmental analysis; marketing planning, strategy, and control concepts. Development and management of marketing programs.
Gives the applied understanding of the internet marketplace that allows students to adapt to its many changes, while also equipping them with the practical skills needed to perform vital daily functions. Covers Web experience, SEO, search ads, social media marketing, content marketing, email marketing, mobile marketing. Through this process, students learn how digital marketing has revolutionized the interactions between firms and consumers.
Covers three major components: (1) a consideration of what it means to be 'customer centric'; (2) development of qualitative and quantitative market research techniques; and (3) application of this material to project situations.
Provides the tools and specialized knowledge for developing and executing marketing strategy in the business-to-business market. Covers how to identify forces that drive buying behavior in organizations, measure market opportunity, identify profitable segments, and develop strategy, particularly for turbulent, high-technology markets.
Accounting
Discover how information systems management and advanced analytics can transform accounting decision-making and performance for greater efficiency and accuracy. These courses will guide you in using information systems to collect, store, process, analyze, and distribute financial data for accounting, auditing, and tax purposes.
Addresses analytics in accounting, auditing and tax contexts. Focuses on the introduction of methods and techniques to analyze data sets while also making it easier to interpret, present and utilize the results for financial decision making. Presents frameworks and approaches to equip students to recognize and interpret patterns in data and models and recommend actions. Teaches multiple concepts to improve decision making related to accounting data. Also serves as a practical introduction to the extraction, cleaning and transformation of data for accounting applications.
Addresses analytics in accounting, auditing and tax contexts. Focuses on the methods and techniques to analyze data sets while also making it easier to interpret, present and utilize the results for financial decision making. Presents additional frameworks and approaches to equip students to recognize and interpret patterns in data and models and recommend actions. Students learn multiple concepts to improve decision making related to accounting data. Also serves as a continuation of the extraction, cleaning and transformation of data for accounting applications.
Focuses on understanding the role of technology-related innovations on audits and auditing performance. Looks at both capturing data from recent innovations in technologies for audit applications (e.g., IoT) as well as examining the roles of these recent technology innovations for audit performance (e.g., cognitive computing).
Supply chain management
Develop expertise to ensure end-to-end supply chain visibility, effective risk management, and strong supply chain resilience. These courses explore how organizations use automated processes and analytical tools for planning, sourcing, and delivering to optimize performance and customer satisfaction.
Studies management of the conversion of raw materials to finished goods including scheduling, work-in-process inventory management, and postponement/customization. Students gain a deeper understanding of the integrated supply chain of plan, source, make, deliver and return.
Explores supply chain management topics including environmental, project and supply chain processes. Additionally, covers processes in the areas of new product introduction development; quality control; TQM (Total Quality Mgt).
Covers theories and practices of modern logistics management within a market-driven supply chain. Begins with an outline of reasons why some operations are not efficient, then introduces management tools to improve efficiency and responsiveness followed by application of analytical tools to evaluate the current logistic management practices. Topics include logistics strategy, demand management, distribution and warehouse management, distribution/warehouse design and location decisions, transportation and delivery frequency, reverse logistics, humanitarian logistics and responsive supply chains.
Applies principles, philosophies and processes of supply management to facilitate the continuous improvement and strategic design of an organization's supply management system on a global basis. Focuses on topics like performance management and analytics, project management and governance and finance. Provides a comprehensive understanding of supply management and its impact on the organization.
>> More options are available upon request. Contact the school to learn more about building your own custom track.