Theory and Practice: Four Months in a European Environment

Internationally renowned professors and Lectures from Dublin City University and partnering Institutions make up the European MSc teaching faculty. Professors and Lectures come from various backgrounds, working together to form a multidisciplinary approach to teaching. Many have published in international journals typically have strong linkages to the professional world, assuring that theory keeps up with corporate developments and vice versa.

A key feature of the programme is the European practicum, that will allow students to draw on the theoretical knowledge gained over the taught element and to apply it in a practical setting. Conducted in another European country, it will see students conducting research into real-world business problems related to IT. Projects may be sponsored by external clients or involve some of the students' or staff's own ideas.

Their focus may be:

• Theoretical: examination of current issues in Business Informatics
• Observational: surveys of current practice or intentions
• Practical: investigation of specific industrial problems and proposal of solutions
• Co-operative: based on work experience in a co-operating organisation

The practicum will provide course participants with invaluable practical experience of the similarities and differences that characterise work practices, communication, business processes and information systems in distinct marketplaces. In exceptional circumstances, there will be an option for students who are unable to undertake the practicum to obtain the qualification of Graduate Diploma in Business Informatics.

Indicative Project and Research Areas include:

• Supply Chain Management and Logistics
• Methods and Architectures for a networked economy
• Reference Models and Methods
• Business Process Management
• Process Simulation and Optimization
• Analytical Information Systems
• Knowledge Management and Discovery
• Information Quality Management
• Tool development (e.g. Healthcare Monitoring System)
• Information Quality Metrics and Assessment
• Cost-benefit and impact analysis
• Performance Indicators and Measurement system

Recent Projects and Dissertations include:

• An Implementation Framework for open source Enterprise Resource Planning systems adoption withing Small to Medium Sized Enterprises
• IT Support for Detecting Money Laundering Activities
• Penetration of Open Source Supply Chain Technologies in German SMEs
• SOA to SCM: How SOA affects supply chain performance
• Analysis of the factors that contribute to the success of Business Process Re-Engineering within the Irish Health Care Industry
• Conceptual Model for Handling Complex Administrative Processes