AY2025/26 Term 2

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.
LO2.1: Our students understand and can apply business concepts and principles.,
LO2.2: Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.,
LO3.1: Our students understand and can apply the ethical principles relevant to accounting professionals.
LO3.2: Our students can recognize and incorporate ethical and social responsibility considerations in decision making.

This course is designed to explore knowledge in various disciplines.
The goals for this class are threefold:
1.Absorb knowledge from social issues presented by invited speakers
2. Foster confidence in disseminating information and interacting with speakers during the knowledge communication process
3. Use the knowledge you acquire in this class to identify critical societal issues and offer solutions from a perspective of choice architecture

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

1. Understand the general legal framework regulating major corporate deals
2. Understand the main legal documents involved in corporate deals
3. Understand the business and financial rationales for the legal devices used
4. Understand the key issues in negotiating and advising on venture capital investment deals

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the key concepts in Strategic Management in Digital Media and Entertainment E-Commerce Ecosystem (DMEEE).
• Identify key learning and experiences from the real-life strategic business challenge proposed by Mediacorp and JUMBOGroup.
• Explain how changes in the DMEEE could lead to new high-growth opportunities for Singapore.
• Explain how the differences in the consumer consumption of digital media, entertainment, and e-commerce for Asians and non-Asians will impact the digital strategy in DMEEE
• Identify and analyze potential strategic business opportunities in Asia.
• Develop an innovative digital strategy to compete in DMEEE in Asia.
   

Learning Objectives

• Experience real-world problem-solving through a student consultancy project
• Apply classroom learning and research to real-world challenges in order to envision innovative IT solutions using the cloud platform
• Understand the changing role of IT modes of delivering solutions
• Apply Design Thinking methodology when building an innovative IT solution
• Build innovative solutions using a cloud platform (e.g. SAP Cloud Platform)
• Use some of the services within a cloud platform (e.g. IoT, analytics, machine learning)
• Learning to learn skills as demanded by the project
• Learn how to work with industry professionals and deliver an IT solution
• Learn how to handle uncertainty in a project
   

Course Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate understanding of the need for environmental sustainability and how technologies can be used to address sustainability-related challenges
• Investigate and critique tech solutions for sustainability
• Apply design thinking skills to develop solutions to address sustainability-related challenges
• Develop low-fidelity prototypes of a proposed solution
• Apply technologies such as AI, WebApps, IoT, etc to address sustainability challenges
• Develop functional prototypes
   

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

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

1. Explain one or more banking processes and how financial technology can be used to enhance the process
2. Apply classroom learning and research to real-world challenges in order to envision innovative financial technology solutions
3. Analyse a given business problem and design a solution
4. Develop a software application prototype
5. Acquire learning to learn skills
6. Collaborate within a project team
7. Work with industry professionals and deliver an IT solution

Learning Outcomes

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.

Standard Learning Outcomes (for SOA only)

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

LO2.2: Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.