With an MSIS, you can handle any business challenge with certainty and boldness

This module teaches students how business leaders formulate strategies and how IT can become an effective partner in that endeavor. Students will learn to articulate the cost and value of IT; how to deal with projects and programs as part of the overall enterprise portfolio; how to manage stakeholders and organizational change; and insights into information security and crisis management; common IT organizational structures.

The PPI (Power, Politics, and IS Implementation) course teaches students how to craft persuasive business cases for IT investments, navigate organizational politics, and build detailed project budgets. By understanding the intersection of power dynamics, financial resource allocation, and IT decision-making, students learn to secure support for IT-enabled initiatives and make more effective investments.

In this module, students will get an overview of the processes and functions that are the underpinnings of a good IT organization and through this lens understand what IT management is all about. As part of the model, students will identify some common IT management frameworks, take a deep dive and apply one of them, the Control Objectives for IT (COBIT) framework, and the various processes that support an IT organization, and describe various ways to structure IT organizations and functions.

This module offers a study of cloud computing, including its characteristics, models, architecture, security, microservices, and emerging trends. It also examines the impact on IT strategy and organization.

In this course, students will get an overview of this digitalization journey along with an understanding of digital technology platforms and capabilities that enable this journey. Enterprise systems are the foundation for digital platforms that are used to support business processes in organizations. In this course, students will engage in a combination of conceptual and hands-on learning assignments using a game-based approach to develop a deep understanding of enterprise systems, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

This is a module about technology and how to leverage a company’s investment in its technology to achieve its business and IT strategy. Students will learn to do this by:

• analyzing the value that IT delivers,
• the risks that IT manages and
• the cost of providing service to the business.

Students will learn to use controls to illustrate how to manage and mitigate IT risk and effectively govern the enterprise (e.g., hold people accountable for performance or processes). This module will challenge you to think critically and make recommendations s to executive management and key decision-makers.

In what many call the “AI era,” artificial intelligence is often seen as just another buzzword. This module will go beyond the hype, offering a comprehensive view of AI— covering definition, design, benefits, risks, and strategic deployment. Through practical discussions, we will explore how AI can be leveraged effectively in business contexts, offering insights into the future of work and the role AI will play. By the end of this module, students will understand both the potential and limitations of AI, equipping them to leverage AI meaningfully in business contexts rather than dismissing it as a mere trend.

As data utilization through AI becomes increasingly critical, many companies have data but struggle to use it effectively. This module covers the essentials of business analytics, from defining the problem and preparing data to conducting statistical analysis, interpreting results, and making better business decisions based on findings. Our focus will be on statistical methods, particularly general linear models and logistic regression.

Design thinking is a human-centric approach for solving problems by creating innovative ideas. Design thinking can be applied to any business challenge such as defining new solutions, strategies and roadmaps, organizational process, and so on. Design thinking is employed by some of the top technology forms as a process to create empathetic design for products and processes. This module will involve a design thinking project that will be announced in class.

The objective of this module is to introduce the concept of agile management, an iterative and incremental method of managing the design and build activities for engineering, information technology, and new product or service development projects in a highly flexible and interactive manner.

Data exists in many forms, and real-time data drives modern business. After a brief history of data systems and trade-offs involved in gathering and storing data, the course focuses on n-tier architectures and modern big data systems. Using practical examples, students will learn how information is stored, transmitted, and displayed on the World Wide Web. They will learn popular protocols used to retrieve data from web services and will use modern programming libraries to transform the data into a form consumable by end-users. In this hands-on module, students will learn to utilize command-line tools to connect to a remote cloud server to define and manipulate data. The module culminates in a project where groups will develop a full-stack, multi-tier system on a cloud server. During the project, students will demonstrate skill in data modeling and definition, web application programming, and client-side presentation of dynamic data sets.

In this module, students will learn what it takes to create a strong product organization that empowers engineers, designers, and product managers to address customers and users’ needs and provide competitive advantages to the business. Students will also learn foundational product management frameworks and techniques centered around three core areas of product management: strategy, discovery, and delivery such as how to create and deploy a product strategy, identify, and prioritize customer and user problems and solutions, and measure the impact of a solution.

• Any student needing to fulfill prerequisite courses for an MS in Information Systems (MSIS)
• Any student needing to fulfill prerequisite courses for an MS in Finance (MSF)
• All students planning to earn an MS in Healthcare Management (MSHM)

How many students participate in Jumpstart? Over half of the students earning a specialized master’s degree at Kelley enroll in Jumpstart.

Jumpstart is divided into three modules offered during the summer. Each module lasts four weeks. You can expect to be in class from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with breaks and lunch.

• Technology I: starts mid-May
• Business Bootcamp (BUS-X545): starts mid-June
• Technology II: starts mid-July

The master’s degree you are pursuing and your academic background determine the modules you need to take.

• Technology I and II are for MSIS students only.
• Business Bootcamp (BUS-X545) is for any student in our specialized master’s degree programs. In addition, Business Bootcamp is required for all students enrolled in the MSHM program.

Technology I and Technology II:

• These modules do not include course credit and are billed separately from the bursar.
• The cost varies from year to year.
• While the cost is not eligible for coverage by student loans, the MSIS program awards a limited amount of funds to select students.

Business Bootcamp (BUS-X545):

• You will be charged 6 credit hours of graduate course credit by the bursar.
• These credit hours are eligible for financial aid funding.

• Introductory programming
• Database management
• Systems analysis and project management
• Technology infrastructure
• Management information systems

• Principles of strategic management
• Principles of marketing
• Principles of financial management
• Introduction to financial accounting
• Operations management

Details regarding Jumpstart registration and payment are sent to applicants after acceptance of their offer of admission.