Specialized Masters

Firms need more and more highly qualified managers able to integrate in their analyses and decisions both technical and managerial dimensions. Confronted by this strong demand, HEC School of Management offers 12 Masters Programs in order to provide young graduates from a level bac+5 (Engineer of Grande Ecole, Masters or equivalent) with professional skills.

The Specialized Masters is a 12 months curriculum, structured around 8 months of courses and a 4 to 6 months internship. A professional thesis is submitted to a jury at the end of the internship. The partnership with companies, admission to the Alumni Network, the close cooperation of companies in the different Programs of HEC School of Management: all these are vital tools contributing to a quick start in the business world.

The internationalisation of business, corporate networking, the emergence and dissemination of information and associated technology are most factors that have compelled companies to deal with the need for innovation, both internally and in the marketplace.

HEC-MINES’ Specialized Master in Information Systems and Technology Management was created to respond to the market’s urgent need for (and expectations of) Experts and Consultants that possess double technical and managerial competencies.

HEC and MINES ParisTech have pooled their resources to achieve these goals using the competencies at their disposal.

The programme’s originality resides in this double partnership :

• Learning is guided jointly by HEC and MINES ParisTech.
  
• Professional missions are carried out in close cooperation with cutting-edge firms.
  

This Specialized Master’s program HEC-Mines provides participants with the skills needed to manage projects with a strong information, communication and technological component in Finances, Industry, Service and Administration sectors. It will complete their previous scientific training and provide them with the concepts, methods, approaches, and tools required to manage a strategic information project in an industrial digital and business oriented context.

The program is organized into three major parts:

• Eight months of Intensive Seminars
  
• Five to Six months of company internship
  
• A professional thesis
  

Integration Seminar

The academic program begins with an integration Seminar that lasts two consecutive weeks. This seminar’s objective is to create strong relationship between students and give them basic concepts for understanding Information Systems :

• Team work & case studies are the privileged working methods
  
• Conferences animated by confirmed professionals
  
• Topics talking about new issues e.g :
  
  • Project management & control
    
  • Consultancy & related services
    
  • Services and Products’ Engineering
    
  • ERP selection, deployment and integration
    
  • Investment Strategies
    
  • International IS development
    
  
  

Fundamental Seminar (Mid September to December)

Management

• Competitive analysis
  
• Generic and differentiation Strategies
  
• Development issues
  
• Case study
  

• Marketing Management Methods & tools
  
• Case study B2B
  

- Financial Management

• Evaluation
  
• Risk Management
  

- Accounting

• Income Statement & Balance Sheet
  
• Benchmarking tools: Balanced Scorecard, OVAR…
  
• Case study
  

- Human Resources

• Group Dynamics
  
• Team building
  

Information Systems

- Project Management

• Protagonists
  
• Delay and Cost Estimation
  
• Planning
  
• Risk Management
  
• Reporting
  
• Audit & Control
  
• Project Ending
  
  

- Project ownership / Business Analysis / City Planning

• Fundamentals & new issues
  
• Strategic Alignment
  
• Head Office interfacing
  
• Project management and project supervision
  
• Managing and coaching for change
  
  

- IS Project control

• Strategic approach and functional alignment
  
• Business process reengineering
  
• Technological & Economical Intelligence
  
• IT Governance & Performance indicators
  
• IT Sourcing
  
  • Outsourcing & internal developments
    
  • ERP
    
  • Partnership
    
• Tools and methodologies (Relational Database Systems, Object oriented approach, UML, Networks & Telecommunications, …)
  
  
  

Deepening & Expertise Seminar (January to April)

Information System Architecture (IS city planning) :

• Key Processes analysis and reengineering. Strategic Alignment
  
• Change Management
  
• Information Systems Cost and added value Analysis
  
• New technologies Analysis (E-business, Server, Network…)
  
• CRM : Data Warehouse, Data Mining
  
• Information Systems Auditing: Objectives, project auditing, reporting, case study
  
  

Internship (April to September)

Students will work on various subjects within companies, the major topics are :

• Project Management
  
• Project Auditing & Diagnostic
  
• Functional & Technical architecture
  
• Business Analysis
  
• Consultancy
  
  

Professional Thesis

At the end of the academic program, students are responsible of providing a professional thesis treating of Information Systems, New Technologies or Change Management issues.

The professional theses have to be presented in front of a jury represented by professionals & professors.

The HEC-MINES Masters program prepares students to the following positions:

• Information Systems Department:
  
  • Business analyst and Program Management Assistant
    
  • IS Project Control
    
  • IS architecture (IS urbanisation / city planning)
    
  • Audit and organisation
    
  • Economical intelligence
    
    
• Consultancy
  
  • Project Management
    
  • System Deployment
    
  • Governance and strategic approach
    
  • ERP, CRM, ASP expertise
    
  • E-business and E-Administration expertise
    
    

Partnership and orientation comity

Many cutting-edge firms and administrations are partners of the HEC-MINES Masters program : CIGREF (French companies’ IS club), Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young, EDS AT Kearney, Altime, Caisse des depots et consignations, Soft Computing, Crédit Lyonnais, Crédit Agricole, Air France, Société Générale, Total, SNCF, France Telecom, SAP, Oracle, SQLI, Bull, IBM, BNP Paribas, Ministère de l’Industrie, de l’Economie et des Finances, Senat, AXA, CNCE, UFF (Union Financère de France), Arcelor, La Poste, Renault, Thales, Headstrong, Altran, Ministère de la Recherche.

The orientation comity contributes to the definition and the evolution of the academic program, to students’ selection and coaching during the study program.

Directors of the Program

- Pr Marie-Hélène Delmond

- Fabien Coelho