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Welcome to Information Management

Introduction

The track Information Management focuses on (networks of) organizations that increase their value with Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Information and knowledge are the most important production factors in the current era. ICT is an essential enabler of high quality and efficient information management and helps to redesign administrative and intellectual tasks by improving the processing and dissemination of information. Knowledge is the enabler of innovation in organizations. The information management track illuminates the organizational requirements that make IT applications a managerial success: both in the internal and external contexts of organizations. In cases, both from research and practice, our international capacity group Information Systems & Change Management will show how innovations and their changes are managed from an information viewpoint.

Subjects to be studied in this track are:

(1)	identify the type of business information that has to be handled by the organization, its processes and systems;

(2)	determine the processes that suit the acquisition, processing, exchange, maintenance, use and development of valuable business information; and

(3)	identify the organizational requirements of these processes and systems.

Our alumni should be able to start as a management and IT consultant. Further in their career our alumni will have responsibilities in information or IT-based organizational change processes. Eventually our alumni can develop themselves into project managers for information, knowledge or IT projects, or develop as an information and knowledge manager

Below, you find more information about the master track, the master’s thesis and the labour market.

Programme overview

Information Management is a track of the Master’s degree programme Business Administration. This one-year programme consists of 60 European Credits (EC) and is divided in two semesters. The first semester you follow a number of common courses, together with students of other tracks within Business Administration: Organization Theory and Operations Management, Human Resource Management and Organizational Change, Strategy and External Environment and Accounting, Finance and Management. These courses give an overview of Business Administration on the whole.

Next to the common courses, you follow two track-specific courses with all of this track students in the first semester: Information & Knowledge Management. In the second semester you will follow the Master Class Information Management. All courses comprise 5 EC each. At the end of the programme you will write the master’s thesis (25 EC), which concludes the Business Administration Master’s degree programme. More information about the courses:

 

Master’s thesis

The final part of the Master of Science programme is the Master’s thesis (25 EC). Objectives of the assignment are: applying and deepening theories and skills to study or solve problems in organisational environments, especially in the track specific area. Second, applying and deepening the experience with methods of research and design. Third, enhancing the personal development, through reflection on one’s own functioning and learning to cooperate and communicate. Examples of thesis titles in the Information Management area:

 

Labour market

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