Master of Business Informatics by Thesis

Summary

A forefront business degree with a strong emphasis on research in Business Informatics prepares graduates to add value to both enterprises and research-led organisations. By studying the latest developments in Business Informatics, graduates learn how this field shapes the competitive landscape of industries.

Business Informatics is a discipline combining informatics and management innovation and concepts, incorporating service computing and security. It is a cross-disciplinary field that covers science and technology and represents a promising direction for distributed computing and cloud computing methodologies.

ICL is the only tertiary education in New Zealand currently offering the MBI, a programme created to fill a gap in the industry for a professional with the right blend of skills in IT and Business. Students are ideally positioned upon graduation to find employment. The MBI by Thesis is approved by NZQA as a qualification ID number 3749-5.

BYOD: Students of this programme are required to bring their own devices (laptop, tablet).

CURRICULUM

16-Month Programme: Four 16-week trimesters, excluding holidays. One trimester of face-to-face tuition on campus and three trimesters of supervised research work in preparation for completing the thesis.

180 Credits: Four 15-credit papers, one 30-credit research proposal, and a 90-credit thesis.

• 8151 - Information Security Management
• 8150 - IT Service Management and Strategy
• 8542 - Research Methods
• 8711 - Comparing Western and Indigenous Approaches
  to Research
• 8712 - Research Proposal
• 9540 - Thesis
  

GRADUATE OUTCOMES

MBI graduates will have advanced-level knowledge of the emerging field of business informatics and be able to apply it in a variety of business roles requiring an ability to manage digital transformation in business settings.
According to NZQA, Master’s degree graduates are able to:

• Demonstrate a high order of skills in the planning, execution and completion of a piece of original research or creative scholarly work, and
• Apply such skills learned during the study programme to new situations.

EMPLOYMENT OUTCOMES

• Business Analysts
• Process and Service Managers
• Change Managers
• IT Security Specialists
• IT Entrepreneurs
• Innovation Consultant
• Project Manager
• Information Systems Manager
• Research Analyst (Business Informatics)
• Research Officer
• Product Lead