Management of Technology

Course Code	Course	Number of Credits	Description/Course Objective
SM70.02	Project Management (Elective Course)	3	This cause will provide an introduction of the essential techniques and issues in developing and planning new projects, effectively managing and controlling their implementation with emphasis on large-scale projects.
SM70.11	Decision and Negotiation Analysis (Elective Course)	3	Making effective decisions requires the managers to have not only analytical skills but also good judgments and insights. This course aims at introducing the basic concepts of spreadsheet modeling and decision analysis under both deterministic and probabilistic environment. Comprehensive case studies are used to develop competencies in modeling, analyzing and solving real world problems in business. The students will also acquire some insights of their decision making behavior and judgment biases, and thus learn to improve the quality of their decisions.
SM70.12	Forecasting Techniques (Elective Course)	3	Good planning is increasingly important for business facing intense competition. This course will equip the future managers to use forecasting as an important tool in helping companies plan how to use resources and compete in the marketplace for short to mid term decisions. This course will also provide knowledge of short and mid-term forecasting methods those are essential to managers who participate in business planning and corporate strategy.
SM70.21	International Transfer of Technology (Elective Course)	3	Rapid globalization and the liberalization of national economies have made international transfer of technology (ITT) a very important component of international business. ITT is, today, widely used by firms in both developing and industrialized countries as a means of gaining access to technologies to strengthen their competitiveness and growth. The main objective of this course is to provide the participants with the necessary knowledge and tools to plan and implement ITT both from the perspective of a buyer and seller of technology
SM70.22	Financing of Technological Ventures (Elective Course)	3	Professionals specializing in financing benefit from this course although the course has a much wider target audience. The course is intended to give an understanding of the thinking of the financing community so that individual entrepreneurs and companies that have a promising new business idea are more successful in raise financing, especially venture capital financing. The objective of the course is to provide an overview of financial management of technological ventures. Special emphasis is given to ventures with high up-side potential, which are typically characterized by high risk and a highly volatile operating environment. Most of the case companies introduced during the course are entrepre¬neurial start-up companies but the course will also be useful for financial management of the later stages of a company.
SM70.31	R&D Management (Elective Course)	3	This course will provide a better understanding for management in R&D that will create or enhance the continuity of innovative capability and progress in technological advancement of business enterprises and economy. This course will also help future managers to manage the process of project implementations, establishment of organizations and development of human resources.
SM70.32	Management of Innovation (Elective course)	3	Success followed by failure and innovation followed by inertia is the pattern of a global problem faced by companies in any industry at any time. As short-term corporate success often increases the chances of long-term failure, managers must learn to sustain incremental improvement while at the same time leading radical change. In this course managers learn how to integrate the different techno-economic and behavioral factors that condition a firm's creativity and innovation and how to design a strategy system for product/service and process innovation that allows their firm to benefit from increasingly faster technology and market changes.
SM70.33	High Tech Entrepreneurship and Business Plan Development (Elective Course)	3	The objective of this course is to provide an understanding and appreciation of the interrelationships between the management of modern industrial technology and entrepreneurship, and the role of entrepreneurship in the management of technological innovation and technology-based economic development. In addition, this course will enable students to design and present to venture capitalists a business plan of a new technology start-up firm.
SM70.61	Competitive Manufacturing and Technology (Elective Course)	3	This course will provide a thorough understanding or world-class manufacturing and manufacturing technology and these can be used to develop manufacturing strategies for enhanced performance in the global market place.
SM70.62	Total Quality Management (Elective Course)	3	All companies, whether in manufacturing or service operation businesses, need to focus on understanding and responding to customer needs. Total quality management, when adequately and successfully implemented, enables companies to serve their customers better and gain competitive advantage in the market place. The objective of this course is to prepare prospective managers for playing a leading role in planning for and implementing total quality management in manufacturing and service organizations.
SM70.63	Corporate Environmental Management (Elective Course)	3	This course is designed to help companies meet the dual challenges of achieving the complex goal of environmental excellence together with business success, in other words an effective management of eco-efficiency. The course provides an overview of the changing business environment related to environmental protection. It presents concepts, methods and skills needed to integrate the concept of sustainable development and eco-efficiency into the decision making process of domestic or international companies following the ISO 14000 series of international environmental standards.
SM70.64	Strategic Supply Chain Management (Elective Course)	3	Most manufacturing firms spend over three quarters of their turnover on raw materials, purchased parts and components, and inbound logistics. Effective supply and logistics management provides a manufacturing firm the added competitive advantage by reducing costs, and improving quality and delivery performance. The objective of this course is to prepare managers to develop and implement strategies and actions necessary to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of supply and inbound logistics functions in manufacturing organizations.
SM70.71	Management of Information Systems (Elective course)	3	This course intends to provide a broad overview on the important technical and managerial issues of management information systems (MIS). It will also provide students with a balanced view of management and technology. Students will learn how to apply information technologies (IT)/ information systems (IS) to solve critical business problems in the real business world.
SM70.72	Managing and Implementing Electronic and Mobile Commerce (Elective Course)	3	Every company wants to have a web presence and that trend will continue. Even though creating a website nowadays is easy; implementing the electronic commerce system and selling products over the Internet is not. This course focuses on the challenges and opportunities of electronic and mobile commerce by exploring the technology (from a managerial point of view), economic, and regulatory issues related to the implementation phase of E-Commerce and M-Commerce.
SM70.73	E-business Infrastructure (Elective Course)	3	Nowadays, international business processes have to be redefined to match the electronic global market challenges. The course provides the fundamentals of successful e-business infrastructures by taking a top-down approach starting with globalization issues such as open systems and leading to business specific solutions such as outsourcing IT activities.
SM70.81	Technology Strategy (Required Course)	3	Understanding the strategic potential of technology has become a crucial issue in today's competitive business environment. Technology is what it takes to compete and win in the global market-place. The central importance of product and process innovations to competitive advantage in the international market highlights the close connection between technology and business strategies. Case studies show that most successful firms have an ingrained culture of innovation. Furthermore, considering recent developments, the course is based on the premise that more and more the value of a product or service is determined by the technology that goes into it.
SM70.82	Technology Policy and Planning (Elective Course)	3	This course aims to explore how public policy influences the innovation and formation of science and technology and how scientific and technical knowledge can help in the formation of effective public policy. This course presents the rationale and framework for technology policy formulation and planning, the nature of government intervention and legal provision in the industries related to high technology, and how the industries and private sector react to different types of public policy.
SM70.84	Technology Assessment, Forecasting and Benchmarking (Elective Course)	3	This course aims at introducing the concepts, methodologies, tools and techniques of technology assessment, forecasting and benchmarking along with their applications. Technology assessment constitutes the first step towards disciplining the technological development initiative that is necessary to maximize positive effects. Technological forecasting plays an important role in effective planning while Benchmarking helps enterprises continue to improve performance.
SM70.86	Enterprise Resource Planning (Elective Course)	3	Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems provide comprehensive management of financial, manufacturing, sales, distribution and human resources across the enterprise. The ability of ERP systems to support data `drill down' and to eliminate the need to reconcile across functions is designed to enable organizations to compete on the performances of the entire supply chain. To utilize these capabilities managers have to learn how to manage processes in the ERP environment. This course will help students to understand how integrated operational systems work.
SM70.87	Information Technology Strategy (Elective Course)	3	This course is designed to provide conceptual frameworks and a practical guide for understanding how IT (Information Technologies) provides a competitive advantage to the organization, how to identify opportunities and risks of strategic use of IT and how to strategically manage IT resources and activities.
SM70.9001	Selected Topic: Management of Information Systems (Elective Course)	2	This course intends to provide a broad overview on the important technical and managerial issues of management information systems (MIS). It will also provide students with a balanced view of management and technology. Students will learn how to apply information technologies (IT)/ information systems (IS) to solve critical business problems in the real business world.
SM70.9002	Selected Topic: Managing and Implementing Electronic and Mobile Commerce (Elective Course)	2	Every company wants to have a web presence and that trend will continue. Fortunately, creating a website is easy; unfortunately implementing the electronic commerce system and selling products over the Internet is not. This course focuses on the challenges and opportunities of electronic and mobile commerce by exploring the technology (from a managerial point of view), economic, and regulatory issues related to the implementation phase of E-Commerce and M-Commerce.
SM70.9003	Selected Topic: E-business Infrastructure (Elective Course)	2	Nowadays, international business processes have to be redefined to match the electronic global market challenges. The course provides the fundamentals of successful e-business infrastructures by taking a top-down approach starting with globalization issues such as 'open systems' and leading to business specific solutions such as outsourcing IT activities.
SM70.9004	Selected Topic: New MOT Paradigms and Practical Approaches to MOT (Elective Course)	3	No available information
SM70.9005	Selected Topic: Manufacturing Strategy (Elective Course)	1	No available information
SM70.9006	Selected Topic: Knowledge Enabled Customer Relationship Management (Elective Course)	3	No available information