The competencies that the students will acquire in IMMIT consist of integrative skills needed for effective use of IT to support international business operations and management. After completing the programme, a student will be competent in classical information management areas such as:

• align business strategy in a global organisation
• develop business cases for an IT investment
• analyse and improve business processes
• analyse and improve organisational mechanisms for knowledge sharing
• define information systems, ICT infrastructures and IS services (to support business processes and knowledge sharing)
• evaluate ICT projects from multiple perspectives
• evaluate IS projects from economic, organisational, mulit-cultural perspective and manage IS projects and departments
• understand the business logic of ICT companies
• apply theory to solve a practical problem
• obtain practical experience in a European enterprise

 In addition, students will also be competent in the more specialized aspects of international IT management. In some cases classic topics as presented above but in an international context.

• offshoring
• deploying ERP globally
• emerging countries lacking telecommunication infrastructure
• cross-cultural aspects in IT implementation

Students will also acquire new competencies in intercultural and interpersonal communication in business English, multicultural communication, presentation skills, negotiations and basic knowledge of foreign languages (Dutch, Finnish and French). Thus, the programme prepares candidates for IT positions in internationally operating organizations, consulting, IT-service providers. While the mix of competencies acquired in IMMIT is typically associated with managerial and specialist positions within user organisations, hybrid managers are increasingly needed in the ICT companies as well.

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TIP: Find out more about skills, competencies and areas of expertise that are relevant in the IMMIT Master by reading the article ‘Adopting Software-as-a-Service vs. Traditional Enterprise Resoure Planning Systems’ .