Objectives:
- To understand the factors that lead to persistence of poverty and under- development in the empirical context of Asia.
- Learning how to examine the evidence on policy relevant interventions. This will involve looking at tables with statistical output. By the end of the course you should be more comfortable making inferences based on statistical output that is presented to you.
- To develop and sharpen your analytical and presentation skills by partic- ipating in class discussions.
- To acquire an appreciation of the issues involved in designing and evalu- ating developmental policies.
- To learn about a real social service agency (MINDS) and the challenges involved with impact evaluation when it comes to such agencies. The report you prepare as part of the project will have a real impact on their funding and operations.
Students developed an internal evaluation of WE CARE's programmes and operations to measure quantitatively the value of the services and activities provided by WE CARE, in relation to the money invested in WE CARE. They quantified the benefit to cost ratio created by WE CARE's services by examining different dimensions of impact such as client health, income, and government savings on incarceration, etc.
"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.
"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.
This course provides excellent holistic training for students who are interested in any career in law. Students who wish to take part in international moot court competitions will have to apply successfully for this module or seek special dispensation from the course convenor, while students who have taken this course may be eligible to do another competition a second time.
"Upon completion of the course, students will be able to gain:
- Practical industry experience working directly with the sponsor.
- Project management experience on a real-world industry project.
- Software development experience on a real-world industry project.
"
"Upon completion of the course, students will be able to gain:
- Practical industry experience working directly with the sponsor.
- Project management experience on a real-world industry project.
- Software development experience on a real-world industry project.
"
At the end of the course, participants are expected to:
- Develop a better understanding of the Indonesia economy, key industries (especially technology
related, financial and banking sectors, capital market, and regulatory and tax regime
- Gain an insight into business and investment opportunities in Indonesia
- Solve real‐world business problems through a student consultancy project
- Learn how to handle uncertainty in project groups.
- Develop networking, and other life skills by interacting with business leaders
This course contributes to the development of the following learning goals:
- LO1.1 Our students can recognize, develop, measure, record, validate and communicate
financial and other related information
- LO1.2 Our students can analyse, synthesise and evaluate financial and other related
information for decision making in a management context.
- LO1.3 Our students understand and can apply concepts relating to business processes,
audit and assurance.
- LO2.2 Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.
This course contributes to the development of the following learning goals:
LO2.1 Our students understand and can apply business concepts and principles.
LO2.2 Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.
LO2.3 Our students understand the principles of leadership and team building in
a business context.
The Deloitte project focused on exploring the changing roles of auditors and examined ways to simplify, streamline and harmonise essential audit process with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Students had to envision how the future of audit and the profession may change as the traditional roles are transformed with AI, to become more efficient, strategic and catalytic. Requiring audit, AI and business knowledge, coupled with active mentorship from the course instructors and Deloitte representatives, students researched and recommended accounting processes that could be simplified and streamlined, which include rethinking how structures and skills could evolve within the audit profession.
Students designed an efficient business intelligence tool that succinctly presents the company's key performance indexes and other relevant data points crucial to the organisation's management and the various business unit for better decision making.
Aspiring to expand the business further regionally with specific challenging targets, Seng Hua Hng (SHH) commissioned the SMU students to build in-house data analytics capability to help the company achieve its strategic goals. SHH previously would rely on ballpark estimates to make key strategic decisions such as to determine annual production capacity. The key challenge of utilizing ballpark estimates was the lack of accurate demand forecasting on a periodic basis and the absence of important financial information that would support the risk assessment of expansion into new foreign markets. Students also leveraged on predictive analytics to find valuable insights such as expansion plans for both domestics and overseas, new product introduction possibility and better estimation of future financial targets.
The SGX project is focused on the process of collection of data from both mainstream and social media sources, in efforts to help investors stay on top of the latest industry developments. Students devised a standard operating procedure that helped to reduce total man-hours and improve the process accuracy of SGX's systems over time.
Students recommended a suitable methodology to measure members' engagement score, using the existing data available and propose additional data points relevant to track engagement. Students also developed a predictive tool to identify the profile of their members who would be most prone to dropping out.
This course contributes to the development of the following learning goals:
- LO1.1 Our students can recognize, develop, measure, record, validate and communicate
financial and other related information.
- LO1.2 Our students can analyze, synthesize and evaluate financial and other related
information for decision making in a management context.
- LO1.3 Our students understand and can apply concepts relating to business processes, audit
and assurance.
- LO2.1 Our students understand and can apply business concepts and principles.
- LO2.2 Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.
Students used data analytics to work on the audit of different areas of the company.