Digital Strategy and Information Systems

Overview

Course Details

To be competitive in today's digital economy, businesses need to develop a digital strategy. A digital strategy can help organisations manage a range of information systems, organisational resources and analytics capabilities to:

• tap into new sources of data, such as ‘big data’
• produce new insights about their customers or business processes
• design processes and platforms that allow them to share this knowledge among employees

Information systems are the technology-based processes organisations use to create, gather, process, store, use and share management information and organisational knowledge.

This Digital Strategy and Information Systems MSc course offered by the University of Southampton will give you in-depth knowledge of the effective development, use and management of information systems in businesses and social organisations.

You’ll learn about the theory and practice of digital strategy and information systems, and examine the technological, managerial and social aspects of the subject.

Career Opportunities

This course will prepare you for an in-house management of knowledge role, specialising in IT function or information systems provision. You could also work in IT, digital or web consultancy.  

This master’s degree will also prepare you for further study at PhD level. 

Alumni have gone on to work for organisations including:  

• Citi 
• Daimler AG 
• IBM 
• J.P. Morgan 
• Chase & Co 
• KPMG 
• Hootsuite