About the program

The information system executive master's program aims to: (1) Analyze the impact of Information systems (IS) on an organization, and design and implement plans and procedures to maximize organizational output through the use of IS, (2) Design, deploy and maintain an enterprise architecture (EA) through identifying and applying a formal approach for EA development, and conveying the architecture to the relevant stakeholders including the domain processing owners, software developers and infrastructure planners, (3) Design and evaluate innovative solutions and IS methods by exploiting emerging technologies and practices to further organizational strategic goals, (4) Identify the data and technology requirement based upon the organizational information needs and manage the implementation of these requirements, (5) Enhance organizational decision making ability by designing and developing solutions leveraging structured and unstructured data, (6) Create and implement policies, procedures and operations for information security, business continuity and disaster recovery.

This program presents the key components and processes involved in the effective creation and governance of software architectures for large enterprises. An enterprise architecture is an overall framework and strategic objective for the usage of technology over time across an organization. It provides a plan and objectives that align business goals with ICT strategy to enable the organization to make the most effective use of ICT to support and build a business. Therefore, intelligent use of this information through analysis and the generation of insights is a critical distinguishing factor between competitive businesses will be handled; effective information-use is now a fundamental skill for everyone. This will be shown through elaborating-upon how innovation works, how it can be managed, how entrepreneurs think, and different modes of entrepreneurialism interact, and the ways to create, build and sustain entrepreneurial businesses. They will develop an in-depth understanding of how technology can have a push effect on an organization's processes and of the factors that must be in synch to facilitate such an effect, e.g., organizational desire for change, corporate culture, and the strategic role that IT executives must play in working together with the lines of business to effectuate this change. This curriculum includes the fundamentals of incident response, incident response management, pre-incident preparation, incident detection and characterization and effective cyber security decision-making. Moreover, it helps the students understand the three Ts principle (Technology, Trust, Threat) and their significant effect on business strategy, policy, and public opinion. This can be accomplished by identifying the risks that effect the enterprises and then opting which risk to actively manage. Subsequently, candidates will be able to establish effective actions to deal with identified risks by constructing a strategic plan, budgeting, operations and performance management. Moreover, upon completing the course, candidates will be able to gain knowledge and understanding of the ERM principles which highlight effective approaches to operational risks. These concepts, skills, ideas and experiences gained to develop an applied research project will be combined with the presentation of important analyzes and critical analyzes in formulating an applied research problem in the graduation project in business information systems.

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