MSc Management, Information Systems and Innovation

Full-year programme which is available on a part-time basis. Students must take three half unit compulsory courses, three half unit optional courses and a dissertation as shown. All students must choose one of the two streams in the Lent Term and take a minimum of one full unit from within that stream. The remaining half unit may be taken from another stream or a course from the Management and LSE options offered. Students are also required to attend an unassessed skills course (IS490).

Part-time students are required to take taught courses in the Michaelmas and Lent Terms of their two years and the work load will be split equally across both years (three half units per year). The dissertation will be completed in the Summer Term of the second year.

Stream 1: Management of Information Systems and Global Sourcing

Paper

Course number and title

1

IS470 

Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (H)

2

IS471

Innovating Organisational Information Technology (H)

3

IS472

Global Strategy, Management and Information Systems (H)

4

Courses to the value of one full unit from the following:

 

IS415

eHealth: Policy, Strategy and Systems (H)

 

IS417

Global Sourcing and Management of Business and IT Services (H)

 

IS484

Managing Information Risk and Security in Business (H) (withdrawn 13/14)

 

IS485

Management and Economics of E-Business (H)

5

Courses to the value of 0.5 units from Stream 2 or the options list (below)

6

IS499

Dissertation: MSc MISI


Stream 2: The Internet and Information Services

1

IS470 

Innovation and Information Systems: Concepts and Perspectives (H)

2

IS471

Innovating Organisational Information Technology (H)

3

IS472

Global Strategy, Management and Information Systems (H)

4

Courses to the value of 0.5 full units from Stream 1, or the Management and LSE options list (below):

 

IS418

Convergence and Information Management (H)

IS479

Information Systems for the Public Sector (H)

IS480

Information Technology and Service Innovation (H)

IS489

Data Governance: Privacy, Openness and Transparency (H)

5

Courses to the value of 0.5 units from Stream 2 or the options list (below).

6

IS499

Dissertation: MSc MISI

 

Options list

 

AC490

Management Accounting, Decisions and Control (H)

 

DV483

Information Technologies and Socio-Economic Development (H)

 

FM473

Finance I (H)

 

ID431

Organisational Change (H)

 

ID433

Negotiation Analysis (H)

 

IS419

Qualitative Research in Management Studies (H) (withdrawn 13/14)

 

IS581

Interpretations of Information (H)

 

MG401

Operations Management (H) (n/a 13/14)

 

MG402

Public Management: A Strategic Approach (H)

 

MG419

Public Management - Strategy, Innovation and Delivery

 

MG422

Thinking Strategically (H)

 

MG423

Leading Entrepreneurial Organisations in Global Markets (H)

 

MG482

Innovation and Technology Management (H)

 

OR401

Techniques of Operational Research (H)

 

A course from another programme with permission of the Programme Director*

Notes

* means by special permission only.