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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
