Information Systems and Digital Business Innovation MSc

In a world reshaped by relentless technological change, MSc Information Systems and Digital Business Innovation equips you to thrive in a digital-first economy. The programme’s forward-looking curriculum fuses emerging trends in information systems, digital innovation, and strategy. You will develop the skills and insight to guide both established and digital-native organisations through change.<br/><br/>You can deepen expertise through two specialised tracks: Digital Marketing or Cyber Security.<br/><br/>When it’s time to showcase what you’ve learned in your final assessment, you can choose to craft a digital start-up plan, deliver a live consulting project, or pursue a classic research dissertation. Workshops, case studies, and simulations enable you to translate theory into action, so you will be ready to create value from the day you graduate.<br/><br/><strong>Unmatched industry integration</strong><br/>You will turn insight into impact every week:<br/>- hands-on labs crafted with IBM anchor your experiential learning<br/><br/><br/>- research round-tables unpack the freshest AI and security breakthroughs<br/><br/><br/>- a rotating roster of speakers from Google, AWS, and scale-ups translates those discoveries into real-world action.<br/><br/><br/>Collaborative hackathons and case competitions, run in collaborative spaces such as the University’s new Data Immersion Suite, give you a safe space to test emerging ideas with practitioners before taking them to market.<br/><br/>You will experience learning sessions delivered through SAP’s ERPsim, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) simulation. With ERPsim, you compete in teams to run virtual companies for profit.<br/><br/>Almost every core module carries a live brief supplied by regional or global partners.<br/><br/>Beyond the classroom, our partnership network, including the IN4 Group’s CyberFirst initiative, offers placements, hackathons, and mentoring that plug you directly into the North-West’s fast-growing digital economy.<br/><br/><strong>A springboard for entrepreneurs</strong><br/>Lancaster’s Research and Enterprise Services offers seed-funding competitions, legal drop-ins and hot desk space through Work in Progress. Many students progress straight from the programme into accelerator cohorts hosted on campus, groups of startups participating in a business accelerator programme. Ventures launched by this programme’s alumni include AI-driven agri-tech, social-commerce platforms and data-ethics consultancies.