Key Characteristics of the eMOT Program

• Provides knowledge to manage technologyintensive corporations.
• Focuses on strategic implications of technology and innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Encompasses innovation management in all modern technology arenas such as financial and professional services, media/entertainment, bio-medical /Pharma / chemical, new materials, IT and telecommunications.
• Deals with the impact of technology and innovation throughout an enterprise.
• Addresses physical, digital (including Internet-based) and mobile innovation.
• Enables key transition from technologists to high-level, effective technology managers.
• Assumes a global perspective.
• Explores and develops new business models based upon technology-enabled innovation.

In the eMOT curriculum, even traditional subjects such as finance, operations management and marketing are taught with technology-enabled-innovation issues in mind. Subjects, concepts and issues directly related to technology management and accessing innovative capabilities that form the eMOT Program core include:

• Customers, suppliers and other partners as sources and co-creators of innovation
• New product and services development
• The global search for innovation and technology and choosing among increasingly global technology sources and markets, including Europe, the Pacific Rim, Israel, India and others
• Entrepreneurship
• Integrating technology and management
• Venture capital and venture creation
• The Internet and the Web-innovation as new platforms for innovation
• Innovation-friendly cultures and organizations
• The IT-innovation connection
• Revitalized R&D
• High-technology products and services
• Strategic technology planning and innovation-intensive new product business models
• Knowledge management
• Technology selection and acquisition
• Multiple and diverse levers for technology enabled innovation

eMOT is an executive program. As such, it has the following general features:

• Full-semester and half-semester courses to use limited time effectively.
• Carefully selected elective courses to maintain flexibility in meeting diverse professional needs.
• A blend of live classes and modern Web based technology.
• Effective technology-enabled remote-collaboration learning and teamwork learning materials that are often in digital Web based format to capitalize on Internet based technologies and methods.

eMOT has four focused concentration areas:

• Bio-Pharma
• Management of Technology and Innovation in Financial Services (MOTIFS)
• Management of Technology and Innovation Media and Entertainment (MOTIME) 
• Management of Technology and Innovation in Retailing (MOTIR)

eMOT classes are held every other week on Wednesday or Thursday evenings and all day Saturday at 55 Broad Street, in the heart of lower Manhattan. An all-inclusive fee covers tuition and fees, textbooks and other educational material, special tutorials and lectures and meals on class days.

For the most Current Information, visit http://www.poly.edu/academics/programs/management-technology-ms.