Classes
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2019
The course emphasizes the importance of aligning business projects with the enterprise strategy. The course is designed to help the students to understand and lead the organizational changes through effective implementation of successful project management techniques with due considerations to the interrelated aspects such as stakeholders and effective communications. Modern teaching techniques are applied through structured presentations, scenarios, and business case discussions. Exercises, class-based practical, and course projects are used to develop students’ hands-on experience.
Learning Outcomes
1. Define advanced project management concepts in accordance with known best practices and frameworks.
2. Recognize how various selection methods are used to choose appropriate business projects.
3. Analyze the roles played by project management to achieve and sustain competitive advantage for modem businesses.
4. Asses the degree of alignment between the selected projects and the business strategic objectives.
5. Demonstrate team work skills and ability to work with various types of people.
6. Illustrate the use of appropriate leadership skills to manage project conflicts at different stages to achieve intended objectives of the projects.
7. Assess project progress through adoption of appropriate project's monitor and control tools.
8. Interpret project quantification results to assess the health and progress status of the project throughput the project life cycle.
Semester: Spring
Offered: 2019
This course introduce essential analytical techniques to manage business management issues with focus on project risk management. The concepts and the theories of risks management are discussed together with management models and their adoption. The course will present the full life cycle of risk management including risks planning, identification, analysis (qualitative and quantitative), response strategies, monitor and control, and overall risk governance approach. Business cases and tailored exorcises are used for hands-on exercises to enhance students’ learning and experience.
Learning Outcomes
1. Define essential risk management concepts and the importance of risk management in modern businesses.
2. Recognize the benefits of adopting business analytics, frameworks, approaches, and tools in managing the full lifecycle of the business risks.
3. Apply appropriate risk management techniques to perform various stages of the risk management lifecycle.
4. Design comprehensive risk management plan consistent with the business specifics and objectives.
5. Shaw how balanced roles and responsibilities of different risk management team members improves the overall risk management approach.
6. Illustrate how the use and application of statistical tools can be used for effective management of risks.
Semester: Summer
Offered: 2019
The course designed with strong business focus to emphasize the importance of aligning business initiatives and projects with the enterprise business strategy. The main aims of the course are to apply project management approaches to effectively manage organizational change, improve organizational performance, and meeting strategic objectives. It is designed to help the students understand and lead organizational changes through an effective implementation of successful project management techniques with due considerations to the interrelated aspects such as stakeholders management, communications, Leadership, Triple constraints, and Earned Value Management. Modern techniques and approaches are adopted to achieve these goals and sustain improvements through continuous monitoring of the business alignment. For this purpose, structured presentations, discussions and business cases are utilized to develop appropriate understanding of project management roles in the contemporary businesses. Fundamental concepts and theories in project management are discussed, including project initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing.
The course also emphasis the practical aspects of the projects management approach through hands-on practices, usage of templates, and application of best known standards and frameworks. These will build required confidence in applying the approaches, utilize lesson learned from previous experiences and improve the success rate of the projects.
Learning Outcomes
1. Define advanced project management concepts in accordance with known best practices and frameworks.
2. Recognize how various selection methods are used to choose appropriate business projects.
3. Analyze the roles played by project management to achieve and sustain competitive advantage for modem businesses.
4. Asses the degree of alignment between the selected projects and the business strategic objectives.
5. Demonstrate team work skills and ability to work with various types of people.
6. Illustrate the use of appropriate leadership skills to manage project conflicts at different stages to achieve intended objectives of the projects.
7. Assess project progress through adoption of appropriate project's monitor and control tools.
8. Interpret project quantification results to assess the health and progress status of the project throughput the project life cycle.
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2015
Course Description
This course is aimed to help our students understand and apply the analytical concepts and tools for managing operations in production of goods and services. Some of the key strategic concepts covered include improvements in operational effectiveness through cost reduction, and continuous improvements in quality, reliability, flexibility and speed of operations. This course also covers critical operations management activities, such as supply chain management, inventory deployment and control, transportation networks optimization, demand and supply planning, scheduling, project management, forecasting, and the management of quality including the principles of Lean Management and innovation. Some of the course sections will use the experimental or experiential learning approach.
Key Learning Objectives
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
Define operations and operations management.
Identify the roles and responsibilities of operations managers in different organizational contexts.
Explain the importance of effective application of the operations management principles in different contexts such as service organization and production based organizations.
Describe the main issues concerned with today’s competitive environment and their influence on managing operations.
Semester: Fall
Offered: 2015
Course Description
As information systems are increasingly taking active role in managing modern digital businesses, the needs for understanding how MIS is effectively integrated in the day-to-day operations is also increased. This can be easily seen through the penetration of IT in all business management areas such as customer management, marketing, financial analysis, production, procurements, innovations… etc. Therefore, MIS has become a crucial tool at all management levels. With this in mind, instead of focusing on pure IT aspects, the course shall emphasize on the use of information systems in managing businesses. It will provide knowledge and basic methodologies and approaches to deal with business operational needs in alignment with corporate business objectives. Furthermore, it will study how outputs from various management information systems from different operational units can be integrated to support business in identifying challenges, taking decisions, and achieving competitive advantage.
Key Learning Objectives
The main objective of this course are:
§ Increasing the students’ knowledge and progress their understanding on the role of information systems in managing modems businesses.
§ Prepare the students to use information systems as an integral part of business management strategy.
§ Upon successful completion of this course, the students will:
o Understand the important of MIS concepts and dimensions in the of businesses management.
o Understand the types and roles of information systems in modern businesses
o Understand the models of business competitive advantage.
o Acquire relevant knowledge on managing information management ethics, privacy and intellectual properties.
o Develop a strategy on selecting and implemented required technology infrastructure and associated applications for business management.
o Manage corporate information systems and databases as business assets and practical measures to ensure business continuity.
o Introduce the concept of information security measures and how they are supported with adequate IT governance and practices.
o Understand the role of management information system to support corporate ecommerce initiatives.
