Program is designed to give persons of many relevant educational backgrounds the skills needed to become effective managers in a wide variety of organization especially in the Information Technology sector. The emphasis of Management of Information Technology prepares students for technical management positions in the information technology field. This emphasis provides a strong foundation in Information Technology Management. The program is developed after extensive research and interaction with the various stakeholders.

• Application Closure Date: 15th May 2008
• Date of 1st Installment: Along with application form
• Induction Date (by HUGHES / Institute): May 2008
• Date for 1st Class (on IOL): Last week of may 08
• Program End Date: Last Week of September 08

Module-1:

• The Strategic Framework for IT Management
• Emerging information technologies:
• IT for competitive advantage;
• IT for internal effectiveness;
• IT for inter-organizational linkage;

Module-2:

• Strategy Development and Planning Techniques
• IT Planning (CSFs, Scenario analysis, Linkage analysis, Enterprise modeling);
• Strategy formulation techniques;
• Nolan’s stage model and revised models for Nolan’s stages;
• IT investment decisions;
• Methods for evaluating IT effectiveness;
• IT enabled business process redesign.

Module-3:

• Strategic Issues Related to IT management
• Relating IT to organizational leadership, culture, structure, policy and strategy;
• Programmer productivity;
• Managing legacy systems; evaluating centralization- issues;
• IT forecasting.

Program places heavy emphasis on experiential and process-oriented learning, and the pedagogical tools include extensive use of case studies, simulation exercises, industry oriented project works and the like to facilitate the same. Besides honing up the skills of individual decision making, enough emphasis is laid on value focused decision making. Teaching is backed by extensive research and consultancies that have gained wide peer level recognition back the teaching.