MBA Online

Networking and Secure Data Transmission

Networking skills are becoming a common competence for successful career as well as language skills and financial skills. How various computers, which individually hold data, are connected so that an organization can use the full resources available for conducting business is a critical part of creating value using technology. This course, starting from the key technologies of the internet and other network services, expands to include new businesses and applications using network services. What impact the recent progress of network services is having on our business and life and what challenges companies offering network services are facing are discussed in this course.

Project Management (EKM 3304)

This course identifies the tools and techniques in problem solving associated with bringing projects in on time and within an established budget. Discussion will include topics such as project scheduling, PERT/CPM, resource leveling, team dynamics and cost estimates. The course objectives are (1) to enable students to explain the concept of virtual organization of project management, design a system for a given manufacturing, service or program which meet the criteria of POM, (2) to enable students design a temporary organization and the negotiation/contract arrangement for a project or program, (3) to enable students to identify and differentiate strategic decisions from tactical decisions in project management, and (4) to implement the concepts of TQM, re-engineering, benchmarking, core competence, and ISO in the international bidding process for projects or programs in order to establish capability-based competition.