| Management of Technology |
MOT 898 - Advanced Topics
Credits:
3.00
Provides participants an opportunity to discuss the
current research associated with emerging technologies.
Emphasis on relevant technologies with case examples drawn
from participants' own backgrounds. Special fee.
MOT 931 - Accounting and Finance for Technical Managers
Credits:
3.00
For technical managers who are charged with directing,
planning, and controlling operations and/or major projects
and making a variety of management decisions. Students
learn how to extract vital information from the accounting
system and how to make financial decisions within the
organization. Special fee.
MOT 934 - Management of Technology
Credits:
3.00
This introductory course provides the foundation for
preparing students to manage in a turbulent, high
technology environment. The course is taught from a
practical, applied perspective using current readings and
case studies. Special fee.
MOT 935 - Quantitative Methods
Credits:
3.00
Familiarization with concepts and analytical methods
useful in understanding the management of firms'
operations, including materials, information technology,
and people. Helps develop an understanding of process flow,
inventory management, capacity planning, quality resource
management, operations strategy and quantitative
decision-making. Will introduce students to DOX (design of
experiments) and its applications. Helps to establish a
framework to identify, define, analyze and propose workable
solutions to operating problems. Special fee.
MOT 936 - Leadership and Team Management
Credits:
3.00
Provides students with the skills necessary for leading
upwards (managing superiors) as well as laterally (e.g.,
in project teams) and downwards (subordinates). Students
will learn how to manage and facilitate group processes in
a way that evokes leadership behaviors on the part of all
team members. Special fee.
MOT 939 - Information Systems/Management of Enterprise Systems
Credits:
3.00
Develops an understanding of the importance of information
systems in organizations and how to use it to support
strategic decisions. Demonstrates computer based systems
can assist in the management of projects and programs.
Develops a framework to understand the unique MIS, EIS, and
DSS information needs of projects and project managers.
Will focus on Make vs. Buy (outsourcing) decision models
and foster a better understanding of the detection and
prevention of system security and emerging technologies.
The critical issue of enterprise wide systems planning and
implementation. Special fee.
MOT 941 - Product Development and Marketing
Credits:
3.00
Examines the process of developing and commercializing a
technology based product. Provides insight into how
customer wants and needs are transformed into marketing
strategies and tactics. Uses case studies to introduce key
marketing concepts and vocabulary and introduces the
critical questions to ask in developing a marketing plan.
Examines the importance of marketing information to the
company and outlines steps in the marketing research
process. Special fee.
MOT 942 - Project Management
Credits:
3.00
Focuses on both the science of project management and the
art of managing projects, and provides a comprehensive,
integrative understanding of the project management
process. Special fee.
MOT 945 - Supply Chain Management and Procurement
Credits:
3.00
Focuses on the managerial aspects of Supply Chain
Management (SCM) within the context of an SCM strategy.
The emphasis is on development of an understanding of
concepts, methodologies, techniques and enabling
technologies, which can be effectively applied to the
design, analysis, and management of supply chains. Special
fee.
MOT 946 - Strategic Management of Technology
Credits:
3.00
Examines how strategic leaders transform and position
their organizations to exploit technological change for
competitive advantage. Provides an understanding of the
issues surrounding the formulation and implementation of
technology based strategies, and the framework for managing
in a technology-based economy. Special fee.
MOT 947 - Intellectual Property Management, Ethics and Emerging Technology
Credits:
3.00
A three-month module course exploring several topics of
importance to the management of technology. Three
categories are explored: intellectual property, ethics, and
public policy. Special fee.
MOT 948 - Business Planning and Program Management
Credits:
3.00
Introduces a variety of traditional and time proven market
research concepts, techniques and tools. Explores new
methodologies for conducting market research. Case studies
explore interpreting market research data in an emerging
technology environment. Understanding organizational change
and transformation needed to successfully manage a project
or program. Explores different change and transformation
processes as well as the attributes and causes of both
incremental (first order) and radical (second order)
change. Will help identify agents of change and the sources
of resistance in individual, group and institutions.
Special fee.