Systems Management : Basics and Career Options!

admin — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:11:17 +0000

The advent of liberalisation in India has seen the influx of several multinational companies setting up operations here. Several others have formed strategic alliances with their Indian partners either by way of investment or joint ventures. Successive Indian governments have lowered quota systems / trade barriers and restricted their involvement to only the core sectors of the economy while playing the role of a facilitator to the other sectors. This has quite literally resulted in a ‘free for all’ situation in the market with companies across sectors vying for their share of the ever-growing pie.

Most of the top B-Schools in the country offer quality courses for students who plan to take up Systems Management as their functional specialisation. Students are taught the basics of all functional areas during the first year of their MBA, so that they are conversant with the basics
of Management Information Systems (MIS),programming languages and the usage of word processing, spreadsheets,and database packages.students who opt to specialise in Systems Management are taught papers in advanced programming and software development by using Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools, concepts of networking, designing different types of networks, interfaces, and tackling networking security-related aspects. Apart from these, they are taught the concepts of different types of databases and how to manage them along with practical training. Many top B-Schools also provide students with exposure to courses that cover the technical and functional aspects that concern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

Management graduates with a specialisation in Systems normally take up a minor specialisation in Finance or Marketing, in order to gain a better
understanding of the business processes of the functions involved. Organisations across industry recruit management graduates with a specialisation in Systems. Some of the industries that management graduates with a systems specialisation can join are:
* Organisations involved in the development of software;
* Organisations involved in IT consulting;

* Organisations involved in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO);
* Firms which are involved in providing Management Consultancy, and
* Organisations involved in e-commerce and other Internet-based services.

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Why Systems Management?

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:51:35 +0000

Many students believe that only those who come from an Engineering background or have prior exposure to programming, can specialise in Systems Management, which certainly is not the case. What students need is to have clarity on the kind of career path they would like to pursue and the skill sets they would need to possess in order to deliver on the job assigned to them.It is a misconception that students who choose to specialise in Systems Management end up writing computer programs for the rest of their career. Graduates with a specialisation in Systems
Management are groomed to handle a wide range of responsibilities which includes playing a key role in driving the business growth of the organisation in the short and medium term. They play a key role in re-engineering the business
processes in order to achieve business goals more efficiently. Those who do well professionally sometimes go on to head the organisation.
There are several organisations whose core business is not related to Information Technology,yet recruit management graduates to work in their Systems Department. With geographical barriers being a thing of the past and the world moving towards free trade, organisations are striving to make their products and services available in all parts of the world. The advent of the Internet has seen a sea change in the way companies think and operate. Corporates around the world realise the tremendous potential of an alternate medium of delivery like the internet. Today all global organisations have their own websites not just to disseminate information, but also to offer prospective customers the opportunity to compare costs and purchase good and services at the click of the mouse. The Internet today is universally acknowledged as a parallel marketplace, and its potential when realised fully is expected to unlock
explosive industrial growth across the world. Ecommerce is here to stay. These are indeed interesting times to live in.

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Systems Management : Basics and Career Options!

Why Systems Management?