Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Management (Business Information Systems)

Management occupations are projected to grow rapidly over the next ten years leading to an increasing need for management professionals. 

There is also an increasing demand for those professionals to hold higher level qualifications. Applicants for these roles are therefore at a considerable advantage with a postgraduate qualification. 

Flexibility within this qualification will enable aspirations to be matched/targeted to specific employment opportunities.  

You will extend and deepen your knowledge and understanding of current information systems management capabilities and issues in a range of applied settings through experiential learning strategies and reflective practice. There is the opportunity to work with industry during a professional project and the programme also includes employability workshops, industry events and guest speakers. 

This qualification will prepare you for further postgraduate study in the Master of Applied Management (Business Information Systems). Alternatively, you could seek employment in a range of roles including:

• Business Analyst 
• Business Intelligence Analyst 
• Information Systems Analyst 
• Information Systems Security Analyst 
• Project Manager 
• Technical/Solution Architect 
• User Experience / Front End Designer 
• Information Systems Researcher

This programme is offered by Future Skills Academy due to a sub-contract arrangement with Otago Polytechnic.