• MBA 6550: Managing & Improving Quality

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course examines how organizations can gain competitive advantage by improving the quality and productivity of their business processes, manufactured goods and service outputs. Customer-focused approaches for designing, controlling and improving processes are emphasized, together with other concepts and approaches of quality management. Specific topics include process analysis, problem-solving methods, variability and statistical process control, performance measurement, and quality management systems. Guest lectures from industry professionals, experiential learning exercises and cases from manufacturing and service industries will assist students in understanding key issues and current topics. Additional foundation course work in statistics may be required prior to course registration as per department advisement and student's program of study requirements. Prerequisite:    MBA 6050 and MBA 6051
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• MBA 6560: Bus/Market Plan Using Online

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  In this hands-on project-oriented course, students learn to (1) develop and write effective business/marketing plans and (2) use online resources to gather pertinent market, competitor, and environmental information. Students may develop a business/marketing plan for an existing business or for a potential start-up of interest to them. Alternatively, they may write a business/marketing plan and conduct requisite research and data analyses for a business suggested by the course instructor. Learning is facilitated primarily via practical discovery exercises, an extensive term project, and coaching. Although lectures and reading assignments serve to convey essential background knowledge, especially during the first half of the course, much class time is devoted to working on plans in teams under the instructor's guidance.
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• MBA 6580: Project Management

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course is a study of topics involved with managing projects. It examines the roles and skills of the project manager and the project office. Students will study the phases of the project life cycle, specifically the activities, requirements, methodologies, and tools common in project management.
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• MBA 6590: Strategic Business Tax Plann'g

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course examines tax strategy and planning topics related to making important business decisions. The course addresses business formations, operations, terminations, reorganizations, acquisitions, and divisions. The course also covers tax issues related to multi-state and multi-national business transactions. Unique issues related to executive compensation, partnerships, limited liability companies, S corporations and C corporations are also addressed. Prerequisite:    MBA 6010 and MBA 6020
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• MBA 6620: Data Mining for Business

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  The broad availability of data, either within organization or about market trends, has led to increasing interest in the methods for extracting useful information and knowledge from data. This course will change the way you think about data and its role in organization. We will examine how data mining technologies can be used to improve decision-making. We will study the principles and techniques of data mining, and we will examine real-world examples and cases to place data-mining techniques in context, to develop data-analytic thinking, and to illustrate that proper application is as much an art as it is a science.
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• MBA 6630: Networking

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course covers the role of networking technology in information systems. Through hands-on and conceptual knowledge, students will learn how data communications and networks are used to facilitate decentralized and distributed systems in support of decision making. Various aspects of networking including standards, media, network design and applications will be covered. Students will gain hands-on familiarity with a local area network and the Internet.
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• MBA 6640: Cyber Security

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course covers the basic principles and concepts in information assurance. It examines the managerial, operational, and organizational issues of securing information systems. Topics include legal and ethical issues in computer security; privacy concerns; malware; security awareness at the executive, technical and user levels; physical security, personnel security issues; policies and procedures; the need for enterprise security awareness; and the need for an enterprise security organization. Case studies and exercises in the computer lab will be used to provide examples of the need for organizations to develop security procedures and policies.
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• MBA 6650: Penetration Testing

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course looks at how penetration testing can help improve information security within organizations. This course will discuss issues related to ethical hacking, scanning, enumeration, systems hacking, social engineering, malware, vulnerability analysis, session hijacking, denial of service attacks, Web attacks, IDS, cryptographic attacks, and IoT vulnerabilities. Prerequisite:    MBA 6630 and MBA 6640
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• MBA 6660: Forecasting for Business

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  This course is intended to provide students with applied interest with up to date techniques used in the forecasting of time series. These techniques will be motivated by specific practical problems and will be used in forecasting practices. Although the flavor of this course will be mainly applied, we will need to review and develop some technical background. The emphasis of the class is on practical application and computer implementation. Prerequisite:    MBA 6050 and MBA 6051
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• MBA 6670: Cloud Computing

  3.00 Credits

  Weber State University

  
  Cloud computing is widely used by nearly all organizations to store and process data, host applications, and scale growth effectively. This course will look at how cloud providers (AWS) operate. It will also discuss issues related to security, maintenance, scalability, cost effectiveness, service models, architecture, and deployment models.
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