Master of Business Informatics

What is the Master of Business Informatics?

Business Informatics is a discipline combining informatics and management innovation and concepts incorporating Service Computing and Security. It is a cross-disciplinary field that covers science and technology, and represents a promising direction for distributed computing and cloud computing methodologies. It aims to bridge the gap between business services and IT services by supporting the whole lifecycle of services innovation. Over the last ten years, service computing applications in business have produced considerable success. In the service and cloud computing space in particular, but also in other IT spaces, security is paramount.

The aims of the Master of Business Informatics (MBI) are to take an interdisciplinary approach in informatics and business innovation within a single qualification, including the core disciplines of enterprise innovation, IT service management, information security management, digital transformation, project management and business professionalism, and to develop research skills through an applied project. This programme brings together business and IT services in both a New Zealand and global context. The MBI is a level 9 qualification of 180 credits. It includes nine 15-credit informatics, business and research papers at level 8, and a 45-credit level 9 applied project.

There are nine papers:
Enterprise Systems and Business Analysis
Innovation and Design Thinking
Enterprise Innovation
Information Security Management
IT Service Management and Strategy
Project Management
Business Transformation
Business Professionalism
Research Methods

The fourth trimester consists of a 45-credit Applied Project.

Total credits 180

ICL Business School was established in 2002 by Ewen Mackenzie-Bowie as part of Academic Colleges Group. In 2007, Ewen took over the business school and incorporated it with International College of Linguistics (ICL). Reflecting the Business School’s shift to predominantly level 7, 8 and 9 programmes it was rebranded to ICL Graduate Business School.

ICL Graduate Business School is a NZQA accredited Category 1 boutique university-level business school in New Zealand, offering Master’s degrees, postgraduate and graduate diplomas in business, informatics, hospitality and tourism, and a graduate diploma in teaching early childhood education, which leads to teacher registration. While over 80% of our students are postgraduate, we also offer undergraduate diplomas in business, with pathways to university degrees.

Our language schools, located in the same building, Auckland English Academy and Bridge International College, offer you pathway courses into ICL if you need to brush up your English before you start your degree or diploma.

ICL Graduate Business School is located at the heart of New Zealand’s biggest and most diverse city, Auckland. We strive to help our students meet their academic goals, and enjoy their time whilst studying and living abroad.