Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Apply technological skills to interdisciplinary problem-solving in smart city context with a focus on society in an interweaving way across social science and information systems. E.g., from framing a social problem to developing a solution addressing the needs of the citizen.
- Address an identified economic, policy or social aspect of a smart city problem by systematically identifying relevant stakeholders, think through their lenses and listening to their voices through text analysis.
- Design data collection tools using both survey and non-survey methods to listen to preferences of the people such as their needs and revealed preferences (through social media and surveys).
- Provide evidence-based reasoning to problem statements by applying analytics skills learnt from this course (e.g., text analytics, machine learning classification methods, process analytics) or pre-requisite courses (e.g., Analytics Foundation) to conceive solutions based on needs of people.
- Applying root cause analysis, six thinking hats methodology and Blue Ocean Strategy to solution generation.
- Consider the impact on public policies and social best practices in the context of the sponsor's problem and make recommendations made for the given city (e.g., Singapore).
- Manage a project involving real-world project stakeholders.
Understanding the current sentiments of public spaces and the needs of different user groups to guide the provision of high quality public spaces, students proposed ideas and initiatives on how to contribute to the social mixing, happiness and vibrancy of an area.
Through understanding the end consumers, merchants and riders' perspective, students developed unique selling points and a strategy for the organisation's application to close existing gaps in the market.
Upon completion of the course, student will be able to:
- Showcase expertise in executing a project using knowledge acquired from the courses taken from the IS curriculum.
- Experience developing of some technology deliverable for an IT system or proof of concept.
- Experience working in a team environment with a sponsored project (internal, external or self-proposed) using project management skills experience throughout the courses taken in IS.
- Learn about an industry or technology that is related to his selected track not otherwise available in the course curriculum.
- Work on complex and real project used by the project sponsor.
Students developed a new marketplace platform for Zhongguo Remittance to link up their current corporate clients and retail customers, with the aim to improve the user experience and better information access.
Course Objectives:
- Understand concepts related to Cyber-Physical Systems and their essential elements.
- Appreciate the unique challenges and complexities faced in computing for the natural world.
- Acquire and apply the necessary skills to design, develop, and maintain Cyber-Physical Systems.
- Create a Cyber-Physical Systems prototype to conquer a real-world societal challenge.
- Think deeply and broadly about the various ways in which Cyber-Physical Systems can make immense impact in society, especially to those in need.
Students developed digital solutions for elderly residents, especially for those living alone in rental flats, on how they can get access to help with ad-hoc tasks such as fixing electrical appliances, moving furniture, buying groceries etc.
Students developed a chatbot prototype for the SMU-X department, to reduce the number of queries they received from students and the community. They also developed a digital prototype for the makerspace that help track item removals, and facilitate the borrowing (and returning) of makerspace equipment.
Students developed solutions and prototyped for a digital payment system that can be made accessible to groups which do not have access to smartphones and/or internet connection.
Upon completion of the course, students will have gained knowledge on:
- A step by step approach towards building a technology start up.
- Working with Business Mentors to help refine proposals for creating new businesses (Teams with interesting business innovation ideas may be assigned a business mentor from IIE).
- Presenting their ideas to investors and business leaders.
- Applying for funds to develop new products.
Students researched on market feasibility and proposed a go-to-market strategy on how to expand regionally, including finding out the various requirements and expansion steps (license, cost, tax etc) to operate business in various countries.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Gain a better understanding of IT management principles and best practices, which include IT Strategy that deliver business value, IT Governance, IT enabled Innovations, IT Capability management. etc
- Apply the knowledge gained to propose an IT Strategy that enables organizations to better exploit relevant new technologies and Information management to deliver business value.
- Understand the challenges relating to leading Change in a business setting and how to be an effective business change agent.
The students presented valuable insights and existing issues that MFA should tackle to enhance its existing consular services, and suggested a speedier and more streamlined process for Singapore travellers, especially on how to reach the elderly who are not so knowledgeable with technology.
A team of five students proposed and presented a Virtual Personal Assistant prototype to show how easy it is for Singaporean travellers to access and e-register with MFA before departing Singapore. Another team of five students proposed and presented a chatbot prototype to showcase how it can address simple enquiries from family members in times of crisis, so that MFA can effectively channel their resources into helping Singaporeans overseas.
Students proposed digital solutions and platforms that consolidates the fitness ecosystem, with the aim to improve resource allocation and wastage, lowering costs for fitness businesses, encourage sales (for gyms, studios and other offline retail businesses etc) and exercise (public), and building a fitness community.
With the aim to develop a specialty chemicals marketplace, which will form an ecosystem from raw material suppliers to end users, students proposed strategies on how the company is able to create and launch this one-stop platform where users can sell, buy, or search for a variety of chemicals and related finished goods at their own convenience.
Students analysed the motivations of millennials on financial planning, and proposed solution that are compelling and relevant to them, including proposing digital transformation strategies for the company in developing a lifelong engagement model that seeks to better understand the needs and gaps of their current customers.
Students developed IT strategies and prototyped a lifelong engagement model, whereby it allowed the organisation's past and current learners to stay engaged, and enable learners to discover opportunities to upskill and reskill at critical points in their lives.
Upon finishing the course, a student will be able to:
- Familiarize students with software design and systems thinking skills and instil an appreciation for the value of software architecture.
- Design the architecture for an end-to-end IT Solution.
- Understand and implement architectural styles and design patterns for software systems.
- Use standard practices in documenting system architectures using views and perspectives.
- Impact analysis to understand the implications of design choices.
Students developed an architecture and prototyped a hotel booking platform system that aims to customise and serve their target audience, with flexible provisioning of hotel search and pricing constructs.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Practice problem solving skills
- Read UML sequence and class diagrams
- Apply basic concepts of Object Orientation to a given scenario/context
- Apply good programming practices and design concepts to develop software
- Appreciate the role of algorithms and in problem solving
Students developed a Java application using Application Programming Interface to obtain real-time information about vessel berthing times, with the objective to save berthing times to a local database, track and be notified of berth time changes, and real-time notification alerts.
This course aims to provide students with a broad coverage and examples of social analytics techniques and trends underlying the current and future development. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Extract social media data via social APIs and custom scripts.
- Extract social networks from non-network data such as transactional/operation data as well as textual conversations.
- Computationally identify and quantify social influencers.
- Computationally extract and identify trending topics.
- Visualize social networks and text analysis results.
- Deploy custom scripts in Amazon Web Services.
Students proposed ways to find out the most ideal means to engage the target audience by leverage on existing trends and behavioural patterns online, and suggested a digital media approach whereby they can increase awareness using their website and social media platforms to drive traffice to encourage business.
Students analysed the organisation's environment and suggest insights to upcoming product trends, general customer sentiments and strategies to counter competitors.
Students proposed strategies on how to help the company minimise marketing costs as well as increase their probability of successful customer acquisitions for their renting/leasing services through idenfying prospective customers who are likely to be interested in their service from social media data, and improve their current offerings that are aligned to current market trends.
Students analysed on the competitors' advertising strategies, online reviews and customer insights, including doing a sentiment analysis on their products vis-a-vis their competitors. The students also provided an influencer analysis based on social blade data on the proportion of followers, the engagement rate of influencers and who the influencers are (and their effectiveness).
Students analysed the factors that affect the experiences of tourists at hawker centres and attractions, including providing recommendations to tackle problems areas and promote positive experiences.
This course aims to provide students with a broad coverage and examples of social analytics techniques and trends underlying the current and future development. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Extract social media data via social APIs and custom scripts.
- Extract social networks from non-network data such as transactional/operation data as well as textual conversations.
- Computationally identify and quantify social influencers.
- Computationally extract and identify trending topics.
- Visualize social networks and text analysis results.
- Deploy custom scripts in Amazon Web Services.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Practice problem solving skills.
- Read UML sequence and class diagrams.
- Apply basic concepts of Object Orientation to a given scenario/context.
- Apply good programming practices and design concepts to develop software.
- Appreciate the role of algorithms and in problem solving.
Students proposed a digital platform for users to source the most cost-efficient rental of construction logistics, that is meant to digitise the entire procurement process of construction logistic reservation, save time, and help users to discover the best price from all suppliers in the market.