Information Systems Engineering and Management (MSc, Executive) at HECTOR School

During the last decades, we have witnessed a growing importance of information technology in business and society alongside increasing speeds of innovation cycles. IT has become core for businesses from an operational company-internal and external customer perspective. Today, companies have to rethink their way of doing business. Digital products and services will characterise tomorrow’s world and organisations are digitally transformed across all functional areas. Capturing the emerging opportunities requires globally thinking visionaries and managers who are able to combine profound competence in information technology with excellent know-how in management. The Master's programme in Information Systems Engineering & Management (ISEM) qualifies graduates to drive the digital transformation of products, services, and organisations from a business and IT perspective. Graduates confront digitalisation challenges with an engineering orientation and solve these challenges with the help of modern management methods. Competitive and innovative digital products and services are developed and optimised to successfully accompany and direct digital changes in organisations and business networks. The programme empowers graduates to apply an interdisciplinary approach to problems, and prepares students to find adequate solutions with a systems-oriented mindset. From an engineering perspective, graduates understand the role and potential of digital platforms from an enterprise and market point of view, including state-of-the-art technologies such as the Internet of Things and blockchain. ISEM graduates can design and optimise business processes following top-down and bottom-up approaches. They also know how to transform (big) data to actionable knowledge following an engineering approach. These competencies are enriched with security and privacy engineering concepts and technologies complemented with real-world cases on critical infrastructure management. Finally, students can specialise in digital services or autonomous robotics. In addition to the engineering expertise, students share five management modules with other Master's programmes at HECTOR School. This fosters interdisciplinary networking across industries and provides the participants with state-of-the-art business knowledge in strategy, sustainability, finance, accounting, marketing, innovation management, project management, decision and risk management, and human resource management. Therefore, they can consider the commercial implications of technology-centric decisions and develop a holistic view of business and IT. Each module has a duration of 10 days. Preparatory Courses: For applicants who hold an academic degree outside of the required fields but have several years of relevant professional experience, we offer preparatory modules in "Probability and Statistics", and "Programming". The exact dates are available upon request. Engineering Modules (EM)*: EM 1: Digital Platforms: Enterprise Systems IoT Technologies & Platforms Platform and Market Engineering EM 2: Software Engineering: Software & Systems Engineering Advanced Web Applications Cloud Computing EM 3: Process & Knowledge Engineering: Business Process Engineering Process Mining Data & Knowledge Engineering Big Data Management EM 4: Security & Privacy Engineering: Information Security Applied Cryptography Network Security Data Protection Regulations Emerging Technologies & Critical Information Infrastructures Specialisation EM 5-1: Digital Services: Service Innovation & Business Models Applied AI in Service Systems Service Design Thinking EM 5-2: Autonomous Robotics: Autonomous Robotics Lab Management Modules (MM)*: MM 1: Marketing & Information: Data-Driven Marketing Information Systems Management Data Analytics Legal Aspects of Information MM 2: Finance & Value: Management Accounting Sustainability Strategic Financial Management Case Studies MM 3: Decisions & Risk: Decision Modelling (+ Computer Tutorials) Ris