Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Gain broad awareness of care landscape and ecosystem in Singapore.
- Understand the importance of, and factors leading to smart healthcare.
- Conceptualise and design an end-to-end technological solution to solve a relevant healthcare problem.
- Gain good understanding of constraints and limitations of operationalising smart healthcare.
Students suggested digital ideas on how nurses can avoid administrative lapses when split team measures were enforced during the COVID-19 situation.
Students recommended a platform to assist data integration and planning of duty rosters for healthcare professionals in a hospital, whereby the application could optimise the schedule of healthcare professionals using algorithms in meaningful ways such as maximising rest hours and sending out notifications.
Students looked into the effectiveness of using digital solutions to develop personalised medication lists with illustration to improve patient's medication understanding and adherence.
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.
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.
This SMU-X course offers an experiential learning opportunity that allows students to translate classroom knowledge and theory into practical solutions for real organizations. Through this student consultancy project, students learn how to solve complex business problems with guidance from the faculty and project sponsor mentors, from problem definition to final client presentation - while simultaneously testing their skills in real world settings. The course will focus on examining accounting processes and applying data-driven analytics and insights so as to identify and create accounting delivery efficiencies.
The course aims to achieve the following objectives:
- Real-world problem solving through student consultancy project
- Apply classroom learning and research to real-world challenges in order to envision solutions for an intelligent accounting function
- Understand the changing role of finance function
- Understand how to simplify, streamline and harmonize essential finance processes to create a leaner, more efficient finance function
- Learn how to use a data visualization tool
- Experiential and peer-learning
- Active mentoring by faculty and project sponsors
- Learn how to handle uncertainty in a project
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.
The purpose of this course is to provide participants with a sound foundation of internal concepts, principles and practices. It provides an overview of internal audit in the context of governance, risk management and business practices. Professional promulgations by the Institute of Internal Auditors serve as the foundational references for the course. These include the attributes of internal audit, planning, execution and reporting. More importantly, the course will deepen students' understanding and appreciation of internal audit with real world industry illustrations and sharing of professional internal audit engagements.
At the completion of this course, students are expected to be able to:
- Relate internal audit to corporate governance and risk management.
- Understand the concepts and principles of internal audit.
- Apply techniques to capture and analyse the external and internal environments of an organization.
- Perform risk based internal audit engagement in relation to planning, execution and reporting.
- Understand the professional ethics and relevant skills required in internal audit.
With the internal audit profession facing major disruptive forces from many fronts, students proposed strategies to better future-proof the internal audit profession.
The purpose of this course is to provide participants with an appreciation of business and investment opportunities in Indonesia, and an understanding of its social, cultural, economic, and political landscape.
At the same time, this is an SMU-XO module, which offers an overseas experiential learning opportunity for students. The course allows students to translate classroom knowledge and theory into practical solutions for real organizations. In addition to visits to companies and organizations, student will also participate in a consultancy project. Through the project, students will learn how to solve business problems with guidance from the faculty and project sponsor mentors, from problem definition to final client presentation - while simultaneously testing their skills in real world settings.
The project will focus on evaluating problems faced by the accounting/finance and other functions of one company in Indonesia and recommending/applying solutions to these problems. The course qualifies for one credit unit and encompasses seminars, guest lectures and presentations all held in Singapore.
Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis
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.
Students conceptualised a real-time (with monthly updates) employee performance tracking tool across the 6 different functions. The output was in the form of a dashboard designed using visualization software, which provided insight for top management to encourage and reward efficient behavior and top performers.
To facilitate better decision-making in the Business Banking Sales Performance Management, students designed a dashboard analysis for their senior management, provided a benchmark scorecard model from other emerging business banks, and proposed a new KPI model that is more encouraging, more achievable and more effective for sales people to achieve bank targets.
To digitally transform the business of their wholesale banking services, students conducted cross-comparison studies on the cutting-edge practices in digital transformation done by banks around the world (including Asia) on wholesale banking. In addition, students explored the accounting implications of having more developed systems, and devised feasible recommendations on what they could or should do in terms of digital transformation for the wholesale banking division.
Students provided perspectives on how to penetrate the education industry even further with the end goal of increasing customer base as well as creating stickiness. In addtion, students proposed business plans on how the project organisation could penetrate the education industry even further by penetrating its customer's supply chains and ecosystem, both from retail and business perspectives.
Upon completion of the course, students will:
- Showcase expertise in executing a project.
- Experience developing some technology deliverables.
- Experience working in a team environment with a sponsored project.
- Learn about an industry or technology not otherwise covered in the curriculum.
- Work on a complex and real project and deliver a solution that will be used by the sponsor.
- Document findings in a report to demonstrate value to sponsor.
Through this project, students worked on real-world issues by collaborating with clinicians from NUH to develop a prototype which would enable diabetic patients to undertake foot screening more regularly and conveniently. Students were able to identify and translate real needs from users into system requirements and constraints, identify suitable technologies to realise a practical system and build simple proof-of-concept applications. Ultimately, the device developed by the students was one that allowed for automated diabetic foot screening, with the use of digital imaging and artificial intelligence to increase screening accessibility and efficiency. A comparison between this device (PODIA), which spends about 2 minutes on foot screening, with the current device adopted in hospitals, which takes up about 30 minutes (excluding waiting and traveling time to the hospital), showcases the efficiency and workability of the students' creation.
Students utilised Geospatial Information Systems to build a web-based map application that will identify and dynamically inform the car-lite levels in Singapore neighbourhood through a set of established matrices, with the aim to better plan and prioritise resources for urban planners to enable each neighbourhood to attain a minimum car-lite score.
With the aim to improve the issue of poor toilet user feedback and ineddicient cleaning schedule at *SCAPE, students used sensors to collect data within the *SCAPE's toilets, and developed a dashboard to provde the estate team with real-time information on how to better manage the toilets, which include odour levels and amount of soap or toilet paper.
Students developed a store performance dashboard and model which enabled Pizza Hut Philippines to visualise their sales performance and to identify potential areas for new Pizza Hut Delco (takeaways and deliveries) in Philippines.
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 contributes to the development of the following learning goals:
- Our students can recognize, develop, measure, record, validate and communicate financial and other related information.
- Our students can analyze, synthesize and evaluate financial and other related information for decision making in a management context.
- Our students understand and can apply concepts relating to business processes, audit and assurance.
- Our students understand and can apply business concepts and principles.
- Our students can communicate effectively in a business context.
Students used data analytics to work on the audit of different areas of the company.
By the end of this course, students will have mastered descriptive and summary statistics, probability axioms, discrete univariate probability distributions, continuous univariate distributions, regression, means, variance, covariance, sampling distributions, central limit theorems, point v. interval estimations, one-, two-, multiple-sample hypothesis tests; and
- know the principles and elements of basic statistics;
- understand the need for data and summarize data sets into meaningful information;
- perform appropriate statistical procedures and write sound interpretations for use in practical decision making.
Through this project, students statistically quantified the well-being of caregivers of persons with mental health issues in Singapore, the attitudes towards various profile groups in Singapore. In addition, students provided recommendations on dispelling the stigma against caregivers of PMHI and raised awareness of the needs for these caregivers' well-being, especially in this COVID-19 period.
Students did an in-depth study and research to understand the perceptions towards dementia in Singapore, and provided recommendations on how to help increase public awareness of dementia and reduce the stigma faced by persons with dementia and their caregivers. More information can be found here: https://x.smu.edu.sg/project-showcase/alzheimers-disease-association-0
The nationwide study, titled 'Guide.Me.' was conducted by faculty and her 95 SMU undergraduates. As part of the project, SMU students interviewed 3,733 Singaporeans across all postal codes in Singapore, about their experiences and perceptions of the blind community. Within the backdrop of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, students conducted the surveys through face-to-face interviews, phone and Zoom calls. With the support of Guide Dogs Singapore, the study aimed to examine the perceptions and views of the visually-impaired, their mobility challenges in Singapore, and how far along Singapore is as an inclusive society.