SICO - Postgraduate Certificate in Organizational Control and Management Systems

This course attempts to provide students with a framework of the theory, practice and tools of comprehensive auditing in the systemic approach. It attempts to provide students with a generative reflection of the topic, indicating certain scopes of these constructs and their impact on the development of a new tradition in our understanding of social organizations.

This course seeks to develop abilities to diagnose the effectiveness of an organization in terms of their capacity to exert self control, self regulate and self manage. Besides, it explores in detail the different components of a method for designing and developing a management control system in an organization. Work is done over subjects such as organizational identity, organization structure, organizations’ primary activities and the building of KPIs and indexes useful to measure organizational performance.

Given that language is the fundamental medium in which most of what we do when we are working at an organization takes place, this course aims to develop competencies in language (and therefore, in conversations) as a fundamental aspect for effectiveness on the job.

The purpose of this course is the appropriation of tools to manage change in organizations in order to be able to instill permanent institutional learning and growth.

By the end of this course, students will be capable of planning, organizing and implementing actions to reduce risks and deal with emergencies and disasters in the conceptual framework of a sustainable development planning process. Similarly, they will learn how to reduce or eliminate losses caused by adverse events due to the environment by means of the acquisition of management skills.

The objective of this course is to study the main aspects of organizational decision making. It is aimed at the practical application of modern techniques to assist in decision making processes under conditions of certainty, uncertainty and strategic interaction.

This course is carried out by means of a series of presentations and the discussion of successful cases of the implementation of quality management systems in important companies, mainly in the service sector.

This course establishes the methodological principles and presents the basic techniques that are essential to carry out a business intelligence project in an organization. The course covers methodological tools such as data warehouses and data mining.

Seeks to develop skills as financial analysts in students. In doing so, elements of public finance, fiscal control, investment feasibility, elements of risk, opportunities, profitability and others are introduced.

By the end of the program, students shall carry out an applied research project to solve a specific organizational problem. In solving the problem, students shall make use of the concepts, techniques and tools learned during the advanced studies program. Students will have an academic advisor in the University and should have an external advisor in the company where they will be working. Students are responsible for finding the company.

This course seeks to develop skills in analysis, assessment and strategic decision-making under certainty and uncertainty scenarios. For this purposes, the course is based on the observation of social systems from a systemic standpoint, where the student is expected to adopt a holistic view of organizations so as to strategically define mechanisms of action in financial, economic and social fields. Strategic maps and the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) are studied as tools for monitoring the development of organizational strategy.