Technology Management (TECM)

School of Management

610 Communications and Leadership (2:2:0) Prerequisite: admission to the technology management program. Focuses on developing skills in vivid, succinct, and mem-orable professional communications with emphasis on communicating effectively with peer decision makers. Participants create formal and informal presentations, and written executive summaries and proposals. Explores roles of CIO and IT manager.

615 Decision Making Using Accounting and Financial Information (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Focuses on valuation of information technology companies, projects, and product lines. Explores value chain analysis and activity-based management as basis for effective financial management. Develops skills and knowledge in the use of coexisting strategic, financial, and information plans.

620 Economics of Technology Management (2:2:0) Prereq-uisite: admission to technology management program. Economic environments of IT industry, demand models, resource organization and substitutability, measures of efficiency and productivity are illuminated. Includes information economics as it relates to IT -companies.

635 Metrics and Statistics for Quality and Project Management (2:2:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Explores current metrics and metric development for quality, intangible assets, and project management as required within IT companies. Applies statistical tools of best use with these metrics.

640 Management of Consulting and Technical Professionals (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Leadership, motivation, career devel-opment, performance evaluation, and team design, composition and facilitation in professional service environments. Helps students understand themselves and those they manage.

660 Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Group Decision Making (2:2:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Techniques for making group decisions and resolving internal team conflicts, as well as negotiating effectively with outside parties. Applications include technology assessments, outsourcing decisions, project bidding, and contract negotiations.

700 Business Engineering and Change Management (2:2:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Visualizing, planning, and implementing transitions in an organization or business unit is fast becoming a key source of competitive advantage. Course provides theory and practice of change management and strategic planning including organizational development and organizational transformation.

702 Interpersonal Dynamics and Teamwork (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Develops behavioral skills integral to effective teamwork and interpersonal relationships in work environments. Covers techniques for making group decisions and resolving internal team conflicts, as well as negotiating effectively with outside parties.

703 Technology Assessment, Evaluation, and Investment (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Prepares students to be educated consumers of information technology to maximize strategic advantage of IT to an organization. Infor-mation technologies, architectures, and products are categorized and analyzed with a view to develop and maintain the most favorable IT asset portfolio to successfully carry out business goals and strategies. Techniques for making group technology assessments, outsourcing decisions, project bidding, and contract negotiations.

704 Planning and Control of Projects (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Focuses on project scheduling, time-cost tradeoffs, budget-ing, cost control, and project monitoring. Special emphasis on cost-management aspects of technology projects in intensive industries. Uses software and case studies.

720 Analysis of IT Industries (2:2:0) Prerequisite: admis-sion to technology management program. Develops knowledge of the status of the IT industry and its companies and segments. Students analyze IT companies using PorterÕs Five Forces Model, examine industry segments, and create electronic database with findings and analysis.

735 Technology Management Capstone Project (2:2:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Teams undertake a strategic evaluation and plan for IT-driven business initiatives. Presentation includes analysis of competitive forces and the value chain; recommendations, including changes in goals and organizational design; plan of action integrating marketing, human resource development, organizational design, finance, and information technology; and implementation plan using theories of communication and change management, to include business case and business plan.

740 Management of Client Relationships (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Proposal development, bidding, legal issues of contracts and agreements, formation of commercial partnerships, and new business development. Methods and practices for conducting client need assessment and managing deviations of scope. Application of principles of marketing information systems and technology to internal and external customers.

745 Business Functions and Operations: Client Industries (2:2:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology manage-ment program. Explores best practices in the IT industry. Students analyze practices in terms of gaining competitive advantage in an industry where the scarcity economic model for products no longer applies. Course work focuses on leading an organization with the IT function.

750 Global IT Management (3:3:0) Prerequisite: admission to technology management program. Students spend a week in an international residency. Emphasizes dealing with technological changes across international markets and amid global developments, virtual organizations, and project management across cultures. Corporate site visits combined with presentations by professors from universities outside the United States and relevant practitioners.