Master of Science in Technology Management and Digital Innovation

Business Management and the Digital Transformation (5 ECTS)
This subject is aimed at obtaining the knowledge required to understand the functioning of the main departments of a company, Sales, Marketing, Operations, etc. so that we can interact from an IT perspective and provide services to these departments, understanding how they work and speaking their language. Students will also take an in-depth look at how the digital transformation and new technologies influence a company’s overall strategy.

Managerial Skills (5 ECTS)
In this course, the objective is to understand the different types of leadership that exist, and the roles they play in companies. It is also a subject that will help students to see what kind of leader they are and to set a critical pathway with a plan to take their careers wherever they want, while taking stock of their weaknesses and strengths.

Management Control and Cost Analysis (5 ECTS)
In order to obtain a middle management or executive position at a company, students must be able to manage, create and defend budgets. Students will also familiarise themselves with the main economic indicators so that they understand how to apply them as part of a management committee and in our daily lives.

Strategic Planning (5 ECTS)
This subject will see students explore the knowledge needed to elaborate a Systems Direction Plan that is totally aligned with their company, taking the preparation and implementation cycles as a whole. They will also explore all the strategic concepts of ICT and its positioning in the digital strategyof a company.

ICT Governance (5 ECTS)
From a Managerial and corporate perspective, this subject pretends to expose all key elements that a Chief Information Officer needs to know to structure and operate an ICT department.

Trends in ICT Management (5 ECTS)
This subject looks at the needs of ICT managers in terms of skills and a global vision of the tools and trends in the market, while offering a clear view of value they can contribute to a company.

The ICT Market (5 ECTS)
This subject provides a perspective of the competition and regulations affecting the ICT sector within Europe, providing a summary of the sector that will teach students how to analyze this market on an ongoing basis, providing the sources used by the main analysts and the criteria required to incorporate them into the organisation.

Innovation (5 ECTS)
CIO's are able to add value to the company by making ICTs a competitive difference with respect to their competition. To do this we must search for innovative models that leverage ICTs to make our companies more competitive. Students will learn the methodology required to do this.

ICT Project Management (5 ECTS)
Once we launch the initiatives of the ICT strategic plan it is essential to know how to manage tech projects, in order to ensure that we match the established expectationsusing the best practices in project management. Methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile or hybrid ones are analyzed, using the framework of PMBoK. We will see in this case the application of the methodology of Agile project Management that leads us to an innovative concept with great added value in the company due to its orientation to client’s demands.

Service Management (5 ECTS)
Understand and manage operations of an IT department from the standpoint of services and quality, seeing all aspects related to this area. Based in the content of the current ITIL certification.

Develop an IT strategic plan, an implementation of a new product/service, or a tech R + D initiative, applying all knowledge learned through the Master's, so we ensure the learned holistically all concepts and can put them in practice in a specific case.