Bachelor of Science (BSc)
BSc Information Technology Management for Business
Duration: 3 years
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: GN51 / Institution code: M20
- Key features:
Scholarships available
- Typical A-level offer: AAA
- Typical contextual A-level offer: ABB
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: BBB
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 36 points overall with 6,6,6 at HL
Fees and funding
Fees
Tuition fees for home students commencing their studies in September 2025 will be £9,535 per annum (subject to Parliamentary approval). Tuition fees for international students will be £33,500 per annum. For general information please see the undergraduate finance pages.
Additional expenses
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme.
Policy on additional costs
All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).
Scholarships/sponsorships
The Manchester Bursary is available to UK students registered on an undergraduate degree course at Alliance MBS who have had a full financial assessment carried out by Student Finance England.
In addition, Alliance MBS will award a range of Social Responsibility Scholarships to UK and international/EU students.
These awards are worth £2,000 per year across three years of study. You must achieve AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification) and be able to demonstrate a significant contribution and commitment to social responsibility.
The School will also award a number of International Stellar Scholarships to international students achieving AAA at A-level (or equivalent qualification). Applicants who exceed AAA and/or have supplementary qualifications (such as EPQ) will receive additional consideration.
Additional eligibility criteria apply - please see our scholarship pages for full details.
Course unit details:
Digital Transformation
| Unit code | BMAN24642 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 10 |
| Unit level | Level 2 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
Digital transformation is the process of identifying, formulating and executing on digital opportunities to increase competitive advantage. Most IT strategies treat technology in isolation. Today’s business driven solutions rely on pervasive digital connection in which individual technologies merge and our understanding of how we interpret the resultant amalgamation. This course unit will consider a digital strategy and transformation, which is characterised by the application of new technologies to existing business activity (where technology is a composite of hardware, data, telecommunications, Internet, etc.) and the abilities these technologies create for business with particular focus on how they can support a transformative undertaking.
This course unit combines a mix of lectures, interactive discussions and group work in small teams. Lectures will focus on the key steps in formulating and implementing digital strategies in organisations. The course will explore the development and implementation of digital strategy across diverse industries. This places the students in a unique position to learn about the opportunities and challenges towards the deployment of digital strategies for devised scenarios. The course unit concludes with a group presentation where teams will pitch their digital transformation strategies to address a real-life challenge facing the business and organisation.
Pre/co-requisites
| Unit title | Unit code | Requirement type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Integrative Team Project 2 | BMAN24650 | Co-Requisite | Compulsory |
Core for ITMB and ITMB with IE
Aims
This course unit addresses the impact of digital strategy and transformation on organisations. In particular it aims to address the recent opportunities and challenges of various technologies in supporting the formulation of strategy and how we are able to identify digital initiatives that leverage transformative power and provide organisations a competitive edge.
Students undertaking this course unit gain skills to develop and implement a digital transformation strategy within an organisation. Drawing on insights from faculty, practitioners, academic literature, consultancy reports and their peers, students will develop a robust understanding of digital cultures and frameworks to create digital transformational strategy.
Syllabus
2. Impact of digital transformation
3. Digital strategy models and frameworks
4. Leading and managing digital strategy
5. Understanding technology’s role in strategy
6. Innovative technologies that support digital transformation
7. Learning through failure
8. Identifying information requirements for strategic decision making
Teaching and learning methods
Knowledge and understanding
• To understand how technologies can become enablers to driving strategy;
• To understand the transformative impact of digitisation;
• To understand the key challenges that can help and hinder a successful digital transformation strategy;
• To understand how digital strategy and transformation can support organisation success;
• To understand how digital strategy impacts organisational processes, products and services;
• To understand the building blocks of digital strategy;
• To understand how to organise the effective implementation of digital strategy;
• To understand how to sustain competitive advantage through digital strategy and transformation; and
• To understand how to measure and evaluate the success of digital strategy and transformation.
Employability skills
- Other
- On the successful undertaking of this course students will have worked on an industry sponsored project where they will have proposed a feasible solution using tools and strategies to their client. The skills obtained can be applied to supporting the delivery of digital transformation projects across diverse industries.
Assessment methods
Feedback methods
- Feedback for formative and assessed coursework will be feed-forward.
- Informal advice and discussion during the lectures and with regard to group work.
- Responses to student emails and questions from course coordinator including feedback provided to a group via an online discussion forum.
- Written and/or verbal comments on assessed or non-assessed coursework.
- Generic feedback posted on Blackboard regarding overall performance.
Recommended reading
Gupta, S. (2018). Driving digital strategy: A guide to reimagining your business. Harvard Business Press.
Wirtz, B. W. (2021). Digital business and electronic commerce: strategy, business models and technology. Springer.
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 22 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 78 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| Kam Ho Chan | Unit coordinator |
Additional notes
This course was devised in consultation with ITMB students, industry panel and the ITMB working group.
For Academic Year 2024/25
Updated: March 2025
Approved by: March UG Committee