Graduate IPM Courses

Courses

Prerequisite(s): All Foundation (i.e. PPF and PF) Courses required for student's degree. Not open to DMBA, ELMBA, MSIT or students who completed IA 601.

Provides an enterprise-wide perspective on the role of information technology (IT) in business. The course focuses on the ways that IT supports organizational strategy and enhances business processes. Students learn about internal and external information exchange technologies, management challenges and opportunities, and transnational issues. Examines how companies in a variety of industries use IT to serve customers well, manage operations efficiently, and make better business decisions. Each new IT application entails opportunities and risks. A key theme -- IT as a double-edged sword -- reflects this central challenge: how to maximize the strategic benefits of IT investments, while minimizing the accompanying technical and business risks.

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Prerequisite(s): All Foundation (i.e. PPF and PF) Courses required for student's degree. Restricted to EMBA, PMBA, MSHFID & MSIT students. Not open to students who completed IA 602.

Provides a conceptual framework for understanding the fundamentals and characteristics of business processes. To set a solid foundation for accomplishing this aim, reviews the basics of process analysis and introduces process modeling. Included here are various methods of analyzing, measuring and evaluating processes. With these fundamentals in place, explores the concept of the value chain to offer a backdrop for understanding both intra- and interorganizational relationships and the associated dependencies that exist. The last part of the course focuses on how information technology can be used effectively in redesigning processes to improve their overall performance. Students are introduced to the enterprise resource planning system SAP. The course includes a project that focuses on an aspect of business processes.

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Prerequisite(s): 3.0 cumulative grade point average and IPM internship coordinator approval

A 1-credit field-based educational experience for Bentley graduate students with the opportunity to (1) develop an understanding of information management and process management practices in today’s organizations, (2) apply knowledge of information and process management techniques in a real live setting, (3) develop process analysis and project management skills, (4) and develop an understanding and appreciation of today’s diverse business culture and values, including team-based performance norms, self-directed team work, and working in a diverse, global business environment. This Internship option is available exclusively to Bentley graduate students who have an IPM focus in their program of study. Students must work a minimum of 120 hours at an approved organization, complete a reflection paper, and coordinate their performance appraisal with their specified site supervisor.

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Prerequisite(s): GS 602 or AC 730 or AC 731 or GR 610A or instructor permission

Note: Not open to students who have completed CS 652

Designed for the general business student who wants to gain knowledge about organizing data to obtain required information. This course focuses on the collection, analysis, and management of the enterprise's information resources. The emphasis will be on managerial and organizational issues with sufficient technical concepts to fully understand the issues. The interrelationship between the technical, managerial, organizational and inter-organizational aspects will be explored.

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Prerequisite(s): Concentration Advisor's permission

Directed Study topics must be submitted for approval.

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Prerequisite(s): IPM 652 or GS 602 or GR 610

Affords students the opportunity to enhance self-realization and direction by integrating prior classroom study with experience in professional employment. Each student is required to prepare a research paper addressing a contemporary information management issue and a paper on the work experience, under the supervision of a faculty advisor.

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Note: Not open to those who have taken CS 723

This course presents an overview of information security issues that must be addressed by organizations in today's ubiquitously networked environments. Specific coverage will include information security risks and related protection of data, networks and application software. While the primary focus is on how to protect organizational information assets, other topics will include strategic uses of security in business, the impact of security risk on various industries as well as the security and privacy rights and responsibilities of end users and home computer operators. The course is designed to help students think critically about the local, national and global information security issues in our highly networked society.

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Prerequisite(s): GS 602 or GR 610A/B or AC 730

An enterprise system forms the backbone of a company. Business information is collected, shared and reported using an enterprise system, which needs to be tailored to support a company's business processes. In this course, students gain hands-on experience planning for and configuring enterprise systems, using the world's leading enterprise software product from SAP. Students will experience the Request for Proposal process, translate business process needs into module-based design requirements, and design test plans for the processes they configure. They will gain a deep understanding of how business processes are instituted in a company setting, and how carefully configured software can lead to efficiency and effectiveness gains and support competitive strategy. The prepares students to participate in enterprise system implementation and evaluation processes as a consultant, a business systems analyst, a subject matter expert, or an auditor.

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Prerequisite(s): Varies each semester with topic

Focuses on a different information management theme in each semester. Possible themes include inter-organizational information sharing, information ecology, and business intelligence.

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