Graduate Diploma of Business Analytics

This subject introduces students to the key concepts and technologies of information systems that drive change and support organisations to achieve strategic goals. This includes data and information management, application of business information systems, disruptive technologies and issues such as ethics, privacy and cyber security. This subject will prepare students to better understand the technologies that are disrupting and transforming society both now and into the future.

Assessment Tasks: Report, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Are there many applications in business that don’t require programming? This subject explores programming and equips you with the skills to create applications that address business requirements. Throughout the subject, you will gain proficiency in using a graphical representation technique, i.e., flowchart, which will enable you to design, analyse, and optimise software solutions. Furthermore, you will learn how to use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to create, test, and run programs while applying object-oriented concepts to effectively solve organizational problems. By the end of the subject, you will understand the object-oriented paradigm, allowing you to assess and apply business requirements in real-world scenarios.

Assessment Tasks: Test programming, Business case study

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Have you ever wondered how to transform data into business and social value? Well, learning how to wrangle data is a must! Data wrangling is a crucial function to prepare raw data for downstream use and consumption. This subject will equip you with the essential skills for data wrangling. In this subject, you will deepen your theoretical knowledge about data wrangling by exploring how analytics tools can be used to optimise workflows and prepare data for further analysis. The subject also reiterates the importance of data governance.

Assessment Tasks: Folio, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Ever wondered what type of problems that analytics approaches can solve, and how valuable solutions are delivered? Exploring this question is at the heart of this subject. You will work through the end-to-end analytics lifecycle, including problem identification, data ingestion, and communicating valuable and timely insights. Practice with industry-leading analytics tools and techniques to produce data-driven solutions. Finally, you will develop the strategic thinking and analytical skills to communicate and defend the value of analytics solutions.

Assesment Tasks: Report, Recorded Oral Defense

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces you to how organisational behaviour, politics, dynamics and environments impact on the role and legitimacy of management. Constraints that managers and emerging leaders face in developing strategies to leverage advantages and overcome barriers in organisations and projects will be explored. You will identify, analyse and make effective decisions to resolve people-related issues, lead and manage change, facilitate employee development, performance and sustain effective teams in complex and diverse global operating environments

Assessment Tasks: Critical Discussion, Presentation, Report, Team Performance Evaluation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

In this subject you will build upon your current self-understanding to develop your strategic and ethical leadership capability. You will explore your key formative experiences and self-image using the techniques of reflective research, psychometric assessment and support from a mentoring partner. Develop your emotional competency to be authentic, confident and resilient in your leadership practices. Built on a foundation of self-reflection, topics covered include scenario thinking, influencing and motivating others, developing cultural sensitivity, and becoming resilient and tolerant of ambiguity. At the conclusion of the subject you will bring together the knowledge and skills you have acquired through the preparation of a personal leadership development plan.

Assessment Tasks: Case Study Analysis, Poster, Video Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject explores sustainable approaches to managing the symbiotic relationship between organisations and their environments. Organisations are increasingly facing disruption and the basis for delivering products and services is rapidly changing. Sustaining performance requires careful management of business processes, fostering corporate competencies, and aligning the firm to its internal and external environment. The student will learn and then practice strategising through a number of theories and practical settings.

Pre-requisites: Successful completion of all other core subjects

Assessment Tasks: Report, Simulation, Stakeholder Meeting Simulation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

The Employer Based Project subject is a 4-unit postgraduate subject designed to facilitate work-integrated learning in the student’s current employment to be included in the volume of learning for the student’s currently enrolled program. Like any other subject, there is an expectation that the student will engage in 120 hours of active learning above and beyond their normal employment duties. This subject requires the student to undertake and document an original and new project that will be sponsored by and benefit the employer as well as demonstrably bridge the theoretical–praxis gap in the student’s knowledge. If approved, the student will be allocated an academic supervisor who will support the student in bridging knowledge and practice for the duration of the unit.

Pre-requisite: Successful completion of 8 other postgraduate subjects

Assessment Tasks: Work Integrated, Learning, Agreement, Project Proposal, Project Summary, Presentation, Report, Supervisor Evaluation

Delivery Mode: Work Integrated Learning Activity

This subject seeks to build the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to succeed as an ethical entrepreneur or intrapreneur. These knowledge and skills are then applied to identify and evaluate innovative high-growth product and service opportunities in the context of a start-up, a corporation, a not for profit or a government institution. The subject allows students to practice skills, including creativity, cash-flow modelling, business model analysis and lean experimentation. Students prepare a business model for a new venture, enabling them to integrate their theoretical and practical knowledge.

Assessment Tasks: Case Study, Business Concept Plan, Business Pitch

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online 

This subject introduces students to microservices architecture within the context of cloud computing models. The emergence of these techniques of building applications is directly related to innovations in the areas of cloud computing and platforms. In this subject, the focus will be on the evolution from more traditional approaches to microservices architecture. Core concepts related to the principles and practices of microservices will be reviewed.

Assessment Tasks: Workshop Portfolio, Business Proposal, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces you to activities, techniques, and methodologies a business analyst uses to elicit, analyse, model, document and maintain requirements throughout a project. You will learn how to develop techniques and use tools for different methods to identify and model good requirements. This will support the management of change and communication to relevant stakeholders. This subject will contribute to your understanding and capability in developing, documenting and managing requirements for software development in projects.

Assessment Tasks: Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces students to activities, techniques, and methodologies a systems analyst uses to design information systems that, when built, enhance the organisation’s ability to meet its business goals via available technology. These include define requirements for system, model high-level behaviours of system, and design blueprint, that is, planning and implementation and will move through object-oriented approaches to analysis and design, the transformation of user requirements to system design. User empathy is promoted in this subject, using the unified modelling language (UML).

Assessment Tasks: Requirements Analysis, Design Specification, Video Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Cybersecurity is everyone’s responsibility. Information systems play a critical role in storing, processing, and retrieving data, and they serve as vital assets for various economic sectors. Interconnectivity is important for many organisations, but this also increases the exposure to adverse events, necessitating the need for thorough information security management. This subject builds upon foundational information security principles, encompassing the management of information systems that significantly impact organizational information security. This includes areas such as identity management, authentication, access control, monitoring, risk management, incident response, and disaster recovery. Possessing the essential knowledge to prevent attacks, mitigate risks, and employing the latest best practices available in cybersecurity and its management is a fundamental component to thrive in today’s digital landscape.

Assessment Tasks: Test, report, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Progressing from traditional project management frameworks, this subject focuses on Agile project management, agile project management methodology, the principles of agile, and agile techniques. This subject will be based on a foundation of the four core values and 12 guiding principles of agile as laid out by the agile manifesto. Students will develop an understanding of agile concepts, tools and techniques: Scrum and Kanban, Roadmap planning, Program increments, Sprints and daily scrums and the agile roles within teams. Some of the leading agile frameworks will be discussed so that students will gain an understanding of some of the different schools of thought, which support the agile continuous delivery pipeline. Points of origin in Lean practice and the relationship between agile and DevOps will also be covered to help students orient themselves in the broader emerging landscape of projects and software development landscape.

Pre-requisite: PROJ6000 Principles of Project Management

Assessment Tasks: Report, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Advanced Professional Practice provides an authentic industry led learning experience in preparation for careers in the Information Systems (IS) industry in a global context. It will cover topics such as ethics, culture, professional practice, legalities and compliance including General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and governance. The final case-study project enables students to demonstrate their ability to think strategically and practice the skills and knowledge acquired throughout the subject.

Pre-requisite: MIS611 Information Systems Capstone

Assessment Tasks: Poster, Ethics Project, Report, Presentation

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject introduces you to the practice of contemporary project management and its relevance in industry. You will be introduced to fundamental concepts of project management, project definition and project delivery methods. Contemporary project management methodologies will be examined in the context of industry best practice. An overview of industry standard tools and techniques required to manage projects successfully throughout a project life cycle will be provided. This includes industry terminology and the rationale behind the commencement of a project.

Assessment Tasks: Discussion Forum, Report

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

This subject follows a practical and human centred approach, underpinned by design thinking and problem-solving methodologies, leading to positive -organisational performance and change. You will demonstrate an enterprise’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP), and present it to discerning investors. You will apply an entrepreneurial framework that includes business model generation, systematic research, competitor and financial analysis, leading to a potentially investor ready enterprise that stands up to market expectations. In addition, guided by industry mentors this subject will help you understand and address the practical challenges of working within the global -environment, analyse and reflect on different entrepreneurial business strategies, explore diverse funding strategies, as well as incorporate theoretical discussions on major trends and issues in the -economy. Entry to this subject is by invitation based on expressions of interest.

Pre-requisites: MGT607 Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship or DSGN6031 Social Enterprise

Assessment Tasks: Presentations

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online

Management makes rational decisions that take cognisance of the complex competitive and often volatile economic environment in which a business operates. In this subject, you will critically assess the micro and macroeconomic context needed for making these decisions. You will evaluate how institutions, particularly the government and the Central Bank, shape and constrain the environment. You will critically assess the potential impact of regulatory and economy-wide changes to business environments, and will apply economic models to make decisions about the optimal allocation of business resources. In your evaluation of the macroeconomic environment, you will consider key variables such as GDP, inflation, unemployment, trade balance and exchange rate and will acknowledge how the authorities apply fiscal and monetary policies in an attempt to achieve sound macroeconomic management.

Assessment Tasks: Presentation, Test, Case Analysis

Delivery Mode: On Campus, Online