Information Systems (IS) and Information Technology (IT) are found across contemporary organisations, and are increasingly driving and enabling profound changes in the ways we conceptualise how and where we work, and the nature of activities required to create efficient and effective organisational processes. IS/IT is thus critically important in terms of organisational efficiency, effectiveness, competitiveness, and indeed, sustainability. 

Despite this reliance on IS/IT, concerns are still expressed about whether IS/IT delivers adequate value and reasonable returns to  organisations, and whether or not organisations are adept at realising the anticipated benefits from investments in IS/IT. When these concerns are considered against the transformational nature of IS/IT alluded to above, the rate of technological advance, and the sheer complexity associated with the entire IS/IT resource in organisations, then ensuring appropriate capabilities in managing the IS/IT resource becomes of critical importance to most modern organisations.

The Master of Information Systems Management, incorporating the Graduate Certificate of Information Systems Management (I078) and the Graduate Diploma of Information Systems Management, is designed to foster and develop such knowledge, skills and capabilities. It is designed to develop versatile IS professionals with competencies and expertise in the major domains of IS (information, technology, process, relationship/alliance building) who can appreciate and exploit the transformational impacts of IS/IT, who understand the complexity associated with managing the IS/IT resource, and who can contribute effectively to delivering value in IS/IT investments in organisations. Thus complexity, transformation and organisational value become the underpinning themes that give coherence to the MISM program.