MBA in Information Management

Online Master's Degree Program

Course Objectives:

• Analyze the importance of managerial accounting, flexible budgets, and performance analysis in business.
• Evaluate the ethical and social responsibility aspect of managerial accounting.
• Differentiate the fundamental cost concepts, and cost volume profit relationships.
• Analyze the fundamental principles of job costing Justify how to use activity-based costing, differential analysis, capital budgeting and master budgeting in decision making.
• Assess the processes of standard costing and variance analysis.
• Generate a model to demonstrate how performance measurement is used in decentralized organizations.

Course Objectives:

• Apply Supply and Demand Analysis in decision-making.
• Analyze the relevant costs of any decision.
• Use marginal analysis to make decisions.
• Identify long-run forces that erode profit.
• Develop long-run strategies to increase a firm’s value.
• Construct decisions in uncertain environments.
• Solve problems caused by moral hazard and adverse selection.
• Align individual and division incentives with the goals of the company.

Course Objectives:

• Evaluate the strategies necessary for wealth maximization for shareholders.
• Formulate financial management strategies to effectively support business operations in a variety of market environments.
• Utilize financial statement analysis to drive business decisions.
• Evaluate the factors and policies determining a firm’s value.
• Assess risk factors and risk mitigation strategies.
• Formulate key methods for capital budgeting.

Course Objectives:

• Determine the nature of organizations in terms of structure, environments, and outcomes.
• Analyze the significance of the human element in organizational behavior.
• Develop an understanding of the role and effectiveness of leaders and management decision-making in the modern organization.
• Provide an opportunity to think creatively and to apply skills and learning in innovative ways.
• Assess the research skills needed and apply the scientific method to a topic of interest in organizational behavior.
• Describe the fundamentals of decision-making, including the basic steps and the need to balance ideal and satisfactory decisions.
• Explain the factors managers should consider in determining the level of associate involvement in managerial decisions.
• Define key elements of organizational structure, including both structural and structuring dimensions.
• Explain how corporate and business strategies relate to structure.

Course Objectives:

• Establish the role of strategic thinking.
• Present strategic planning from an information technology perspective.
• Provide basic explanations related to managing IT for competitive advantage.
• Explain the assessment step of the strategic planning process.
• Explain the strategy step of the strategic planning process.
• Present the execution step of the strategic planning process.
• Develop a strategic plan for a real or fictitious business.

Course Objectives:

• Determine the appropriate Quantitative Analysis techniques to inform business decisions.
• Assess the results of probability analysis, linear regression analysis, forecasting models, linear programming, assignment models, and network techniques.
• Measure the effectiveness of project time management techniques.
• Estimate the value of simulation modeling.
• Support business operations through proposal evaluation.

Course Objectives:

• Assess the need for marketing management in formulating business strategies.
• Examine how corporate and business strategies influence the marketing decisions of a company.
• Apply the concepts of segmentation, differentiation, and positioning to maximize marketing efficacy.
• Describe the decisions and processes that go into bringing a product to market.
• Analyze market opportunities using metrics and marketing concepts to set, and adapt, pricing strategies.
• Examine the strategies that are used to set up and maintain distribution channels for products.
• Analyze marketing techniques that help companies adapt to the new economy and global markets; and analyze marketing strategies for services.
• Evaluate marketing strategies that are aimed at introducing products across a variety of market types.
• Describe the techniques and metrics that are used in implementing and controlling marketing programs.

Course Objectives:

• Apply fundamental project management concepts to projects and organizations.
• Create plans and reports using project management methods for defining, planning, executing and closing a project.
• Analyze organizational issues regarding project management planning.
• Determine the conditions in which traditional project management versus agile project management should be used.
• Apply the appropriate management concepts to international projects
• Develop a project plan using Microsoft Project ®.

Course Objectives:

• Explain the technology, people, and organizational components of information systems.
• Assess the role of information systems in globalization and its evolution.
• Compare how businesses use information systems for competitive advantage vs. competitive necessity.
• Appraise the value of information systems investments as well as formulate a business case for a new information system, including estimation of both costs and benefits.
• Evaluate how information systems are enabling new forms of commerce between individuals, organizations, and governments.
• Explain the importance of emerging technologies that enable new forms of communication, collaboration, and partnering.
• Demonstrate how enterprise systems foster stronger relationships with customers and suppliers and how these systems are widely used to enforce organizational structures and processes.

Course Objectives:

• Determine how organizational structures and strategies can influence one another.
• Formulate and justify effective business processes.
• Assess the impact of domestic and global forces utilizing a strategic process.
• Incorporate cost analysis into decision making and evaluations.
• Evaluate ethical issues and how they impact strategic decision-making.
• Assess the role of business managers and leaders in strategic planning and implementation processes.

Course Objectives:

• Explore conceptualizations of business ethics from an organizational perspective.
• Explore the role of corporate governance in structuring ethics and social responsibility in business.
• Examine the importance of morals and values to ethical decision-making.
• Illustrate how leadership, power, and motivation relate to ethical decision making in organizations.
• Examine the ways ethical standards are monitored, audited, and enforced.
• Examine leadership styles and how they influence ethical leadership.

Course Objectives:

• Contribute to the development and productivity of a cross-functional team.
• Apply criteria of the APA style guide as you develop written documents.
• Prioritize tasks towards completion of two multifaceted projects (the team project and your own capstone project).
• Assess the merits and opportunities for growth within and among members of a team.
• Produce a complete business plan or a research project (your capstone project).