Master of Business Administration (MBA)International Industrial Management

Data Analytics and Information Management

Data Analytics and Information Management

The module covers the following three courses:

• Quantitative Methods: Methods which support decision making in various departments of a company
• Data Science: methods in order to analyze actual phenomena with data
• Information Management: Implementation, evaluation, design, operation, security, and maintenance of information systems in business and production environments

Marketing, Sales and Economics

Marketing, Sales and Economics

The module covers the following three courses:

• Industrial Marketing: Develop and implement marketing strategies and apply the tools and methods
• Market and Competitive Intelligence : Evaluation of markets and competitors
• Economics: Understand the principle of micro- and macroeconomics

Finance

Finance

The module covers the following three courses:

• Financial Reporting and Analysis: Impact of different costing methods, depreciation and reporting standards
• Corporate Finance: Deployment of financial tools and methods in the decision-making of managerial finance; How companies finance their operations; Cost of capital, and working capital management
• Investments: Investment decision problems in corporations; Present value calculus, capital budgeting, portfolio theory, Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and market efficiency

Operations

Operations

The module covers the following three courses:

• Project Management: Apply principles and methods of professionally managing projects
• Quality Management: Impact of quality management on business performance, quality management tools including SPC, quality audits and certifications
• Operations and Supply Chain Management: Fundamentals of all operations functions within industrial companies

Organisational Behaviour and Strategy

Organisational Behaviour and Strategy

The module covers the following three courses:

• Organisational Development: Insights to the critical issues facing organisations in simultaneously managing their human resources at home and abroad. It focuses on international business strategies and discusses discussing digital implications of the core organisational development topics
• Intercultural Leadership & Negotiations: Learn and practice the basics of intercultural competence, leadership styles and delegation tools as well as how to profit from diversity: identifying, promoting and using different life experiences, talents and know-how to produce high performance
• Corporate Strategy: Evaluate alternative strategic roadmaps

Enterpreneurial Management

Entrepreneurial Management

The module covers the following three courses:

• Corporate Governance and Business Ethics: Delegation tools, fair leadership process, challenging leadership situations

       current engagement studies into business world and ethical dilemmas 

• Business Law: Formation of contracts, breach of contract etc., corporate structures, mergers & acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures
• Entrepreneurship: The spirit of Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs master Innovations, selected key topics for entrepreneurs

International Management

International Management

The module covers the following four courses:

• International Finance and Risk Management: Specific aspects of international finance, financial risk management tools and methods
• International Marketing: Concepts in international marketing research the international marketplace, operational global marketing decisions
• Management Accounting: Basic procedure of management accounting and understand the connections within field

Specialisation Modules

Students will choose from ONE of the following Elective (Specialisation) Modules:

Specialisation: General Management

Business Management 

The module covers the following four courses:

• Lean Management: Apply lean principles to different areas and fields in operations management
• Business Growth and Valuation: Specific aspects of how to scale up new business ideas and value company success
• Innovation and Technology Management: Handle and solve typical tasks in managing technology and innovation
• Business Simulation: Derivation and development of business solutions in changing economic environment, optimization of internal processes, workflows and calculations in order to improve results

Specialisation: Sustainable Production & Technology

Sustainable Management 

The module covers the following four courses:

• Sustainable Technology Management
• Sustainability Assessment
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Concept of sustainability and how this is influencing supply chain management
• Business Simulation: Derivation and development of business solutions in changing economic environment, especially with respect to sustainability

Specialisation: Digital Transformation

Digital Management 

The module covers the following 4 courses:

• Digital Enterprise and Information Systems: Business processes supported by the software
• Smart Manufacturing: Knowledge of the goals, tasks, framework conditions, processes and methods of the process and factory planning with digital focus
• Digital Change and Process Management: Chances and risks of digital transformation (“Industry 4.0”) in a production company
• Business Simulation: Derivation and development of business solutions in changing economic environment, especially with respect to digitalisation

Specialisation Project

Specialisation Project

The module covers the following two courses:

• Best Practice Solutions: Visits to industrial companies in the chosen specialization
• Project Work: Development of a project within the field of their specialization

Master’s Thesis

Master’s Thesis

The module covers the following four courses:

• Scientific Methodology and Academic Writing: Understand the basics of research methods and structure and write an academic study in a scientific manner
• Corporate Report: Apply academic methodologies to real life problems in a company
• Thesis: Demonstrate the ability of using appropriate scientific methods and tools
• Colloquium: Challenges, problems and objective of the Corporate Report and Thesis, methods and tools used and strength and weaknesses and evaluation of the solutions found