MBS (Information Systems for Business Performance)

This course is offered by the Department of Business Information Systems (BIS) at University College Cork (Ireland), this MBS is a full-time 12 month postgraduate programme partly taught and partly based on a large scale industry project in collaboration with large corporations based in Ireland.

Fundamentally, this new MBS aims at providing students with a coherent set of skills essential in building, managing, and leveraging an effective and efficient Information Systems (IS) capability for the modern organisation. This means providing students with a clear understanding of how to manage information systems and leverage the potential of the latest Information Technologies (IT) to create value for the firm; reducing costs, solving organisational problems or providing better products and services to customers.

The MBS ISBP programme seeks to find a balance between the management activities and the analysis/development activities that affect the practice and theory of information systems in the modern organisation. Information systems can no longer be regarded solely as technical systems or arrangements of new technologies, but rather must be viewed as social systems operating within a specific organisational context that must be properly understood. Thus, much emphasis is placed on understanding how organisations operate and how the factors affecting their performance can be finely tuned using information systems.

In this programme, the applied aspects of building, leveraging and managing Information Systems and Information Technologies rely on both class room and practical computer laboratory interaction where students are taught from beginners level.

The programme prepares students to take up business analyst/programmer and management positions in IT departments in small, medium or large organisations, whether public or private, or whether in the financial services or in manufacturing.