Learn how to manage for success! Examine management theories and applications for motivation, decision-making, organizational structures, processes, and group dynamics that shape organizational culture. Gain insight into frameworks for ethical leadership, operational strategy, and essential management skills and responsibilities.

Gain insight into the pivotal role human resources plays in helping organizations be successful. Learn the various functions of HR and their relationship to the role of manager. Explore the historical roots of HR in organization life and the application of the law to the present day workplace including wrongful discharge, harassment, interviewing, selection, compensation, and benefits.

Develop skills for effective integrated marketing and business strategy to create innovative and sustained competitive advantage in the digital economy. Learn to ethically apply these insights for business growth to advance strategy. Students explore international marketing perspectives emphasizing future trends while examining the current market environment and marketing strategy elements.

Explores the fundamental concepts of finance and accounting within an organizational context, including terminology, budgeting, time value of money, along with ethical and global considerations. Apply standard financial and accounting tools to make business assessments and financial decisions important for managers in any organization.

Learn to analyze and visualize data by using business analytics concepts and tools. Work in simulated business work groups to practice real-world collaboration. Develop analyses that utilize research and forecasting tools to meet measurable objectives and effectively make business decisions.

Explore how to lead and manage collaborative teams of technical and non-technical workers to deliver business strategy. Use reflective tools to examine individual strengths for personal and professional growth. Learn to use collaborative software tools to work on team projects and to improve in confidence and credibility as an information-literate critical thinker in conducting research, writing, communicating and presenting. Minimize the barriers to successful intercultural communication by using various tools for teamwork in local and global settings.

Learn to deliver on new ideas and strategies by practicing traditional and agile methodologies and processes that help bring new products and services to the market. Build on differing strategic approaches and project management techniques to manage innovation so that competitive strategy and new ideas can be realized. Gain skills, through an applied research project, in gathering requirements, applying appropriate methodologies, and utilizing various deliverables to crystalize a measurable objective, perform a cost-benefit analysis, connect to business strategy, and identify constraints.

Learn how information systems are designed to interact with people and carry out business strategy. Examine enterprise-wide applications, the infrastructure necessary to support these applications, and important implications for security and privacy. Topics include business continuity and disaster recovery, virtualization, and the effects of compliance on infrastructure development (e.g. HIPPA, SOX, GLBA).

Learn to use business strategy and data-based applications as a foundation for making intelligent business decisions. Examine the normalization process, through team and individual work, to minimize the potential for losing customers through redundant and/or inaccurate data. Study the Structured Query Language (SQL), data warehouse team-building, de-normalization, and data-mining for faster access to operational and strategic information leading to a potential competitive advantage.

This seminar helps students complete a synthesis project integrating business and technology knowledge gained through the Innovation and Technology Management (ITM) program coursework. The project addresses actual worksite needs, both human and technical. A problem or need is selected and a proposal to solve the problem or meet the need is prepared. A thorough analysis is conducted including cost-benefit, requirements gathering, options analysis, and measured success to address a business need.