Information Technology, Management and Organisational Change (ITMOC)

Provided by Lancaster University

About the course

Course content

This interdisciplinary and unique programme provides an unrivalled platform for managing the strategic impact, organisational implications and business value of IT. The Information Technology, Management and Organisational Change programme (ITMOC) prepares you for twenty-first century careers in a globalising IT sector.

The programme modules provide an advanced grounding in key areas such as information technology and organisations, managing change, knowledge management, systematic interventions, strategy and IT management, project management and analysis, design and innovation.

Theory and practice are integrated throughout the programme. Our comprehensive range of modules develops both wide-ranging and specialist knowledge. The programme includes regular seminars and workshops with industry practitioners including CIOs, CTOs, CEOs and consultants. A research internship dissertation gives you the opportunity to collaborate with a company. We work closely with industry to ensure ITMOC is business relevant and leading-edge.

Student-centred learning is combined with academic rigour. Students come from technical and non-technical backgrounds. No specialist knowledge of computing or IT is needed.

MSc

You will study a range of modules as part of your course, some examples of which are listed below.

Core

• Academic and Professional Practice
• Strategy, IT and Digital Business
• Information, Technology and Organisations
• Knowledge Management and IT
• Systemic Interventions and Consulting
• Business Analysis and Enterprise Systems
• Analysis and Design
• IT Project Management
• Dissertation
• The Management of Organisational Change: Challenges and Debates
• The Production of Managerial Knowledge II: Analysing management in practice

Optional

• Human Resource Management 1: The rise and growth of HRM theories and techniques
• Human Resource Management II: the agenda of HRM in the global economy
• Knowledge and Global Organisations
• Cyber Security and Enterprise Resilience: Social Aspects of the Digital Age
• Business Skills and Analytics
• Strategic Supply Chain Management
• E-Business
• E-Marketing

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

MRes

Core

• The Management of Organisational Change: Challenges and Debates
• The Production of Managerial Knowledge II: Analysing management in practice
• Business Analysis and Enterprise Systems
• Academic and Professional Practice
• Analysis and Design
• Information, Technology and Organisations
• Knowledge Management and IT
• IT Project Management
• Dissertation

Optional

• E-Business
• E-Marketing
• Cyber Security and Enterprise Resilience: Social Aspects of the Digital Age
• Human Resource Management 1: The rise and growth of HRM theories and techniques
• Knowledge and Global Organisations
• Systemic Interventions and Consulting
• Strategy, IT and Digital Business
• Human Resource Management II: the agenda of HRM in the global economy
• Business Skills and Analytics
• Strategic Supply Chain Management

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

Careers

With its combination of rigorous intellectual knowledge and practical focus on emerging themes and topics, ITMOC equips its graduates equally well for careers in general management or for roles that relate specifically to the development and management of information technology.

Graduates from the programme are employed as IT managers, consultants, project managers, systems analysts and general managers in a variety of private and public sector organisations across the world. 

Fine-tuning your ideas of where you want to go next in your career – and how to get there – will be an important part of your year at Lancaster. To help with this, various activities are provided throughout the programme.