Governance, Technology and Innovation Professional

Area of Concentration: Governance and Technology

The MGTI has a total workload of 480 hours (32 credits).

• Of which 360 hours (24 credits) are dedicated to compulsory subjects and
• 120 hours (8 credits) for optional subjects.

The MGTI is structured in three lines of research: Organizational Knowledge: Intelligence and Strategic Management; Information Technology and Decision Support and Governance and Innovation.

These lines of research that are in line with your Area of Concentration (CA) are linked to the compulsory and optional subjects described below:

Compulsory subjects:

1. Epistemology — 4 credits
2. Governance in Public and Private Administration — 4 credits
3. Data Science — 4 credits
4. Strategic and Knowledge Management — 4 credits
5. Qualification — 4 credits
6. Defense Master — 4 credits
7. Guidance I, II, III and IV

Each compulsory subject is linked to a line of research, providing the multidisciplinary nature that we expect from our student.

Optional disciplines:

1. Behavior and Organizational Culture — 4 credits
2. Competitive Intelligence — 4 credits
3. Innovation Management — 4 credits
4. Machine Learning — 4 credits
5. Information Architecture — 4 credits
6. Decision-making Processes and Decision Support Systems — 4 credits
7. Governance and Management in Digital Transformation — 4 credits
8. Modeling Complex Systems in the Context of Governance — 4 credits
9. Risk Management — 4 credits
10. Advanced Topics in Governance, Technology, and Innovation I — 4 credits
11. Advanced Topics in Governance, Technology, and Innovation II — 4 credits
12. Advanced Topics in Governance, Technology, and Innovation III — 4 credits

Lines of research

Organizational Knowledge: Intelligence and Strategic Management

In the 21st century, organizations, of an indistinct nature, are exposed to numerous challenges, such as social, economic, technological, environmental and productive challenges that require essential competencies to learn to live with and adapt to radical and systemic changes with a global impact. Public and private agendas begin developing strategies to address issues of significant increase in world population, energy demand, climate change, and other global issues.

However, there are daily, less perceptible challenges that progress and compromise organizational competencies too much. Some of them are established on two fronts: ignorance of decision-making and incompetence in generating knowledge and synergistic solutions. By way of illustration, mention is made of the extraordinary generation of masses of global data, accompanied by incompetence to collect, compare, and discard data, generate information, and analyze it to support the decision. In short, excess input without a sharing and decision-making method hinders learning, sharing, and organizational trust for conscious decision-making.

Therefore, a great scientific, professional, educational and sociocultural opportunity is established in the systemic preparation of research in Organizational Knowledge focused on intelligence, learning, management, and adaptation to changes in the external environments of organizations.

In the Program, one of the strategies for dealing with these challenges is to position yourself as an agent in an environment where changes are promoted by innovations, collective synergistic actions, and continuous learning. In order to guarantee expressive and consistent results in this strategy, the Program chose the following focuses of action:

• Intelligence − its purpose is to predict (prospective thinking) trends, signs, strategic movements, scenarios, and other prospective elements to support the decision-making process of organizations. The intrinsically related areas of knowledge are Foresight, Organizational, Competitive, and Strategic intelligence.
• Strategy − the purpose is to approach organizations, their internal and external environments, decision-making processes, and cognitive and creative systems in order to allow them to learn to live with the changes and adaptations required to innovate. New relationship practices for knowledge generation and innovation are considered, such as knowledge networks whose success has been limited by the absence of competencies in various orders, such as: managing relationships between actors and organizations typically marked by more human values; generation of shared knowledge; synergy and system performance for results; and intellectual property agreements and sharing of results between organizations.

• Management − the basic structure consists of developing an epistemological and methodological formation of how organizations act, permeated by principles of self-organization, synergy in interactions, and systemic thinking.

Information Technology and Decision Support

Currently, knowledge stands out as the main source of competitive advantage and innovation in companies, as well as as a possibility for the transformation of social reality. In this context, theories and concepts have been developed within the scope of Knowledge Management, focusing on the human aspect of the knowledge worker.

The area of Information Technology, considered essential for many organizations, has also been influenced by these theories and concepts; either by directly impacting the conception and design of new technologies that seek to respond to the complex problems of an organization; or, by the very nature of software project activities that are of intense use of knowledge, requiring theoretical approaches to recognize this knowledge as an important asset of software organizations.

This line aims to investigate solutions to problems related to knowledge and its management processes, contributing to a theoretical and practical evolution, from the perspective of technology. In this way, contributions from different knowledge domains are explored: Artificial Intelligence, Image and Signal Processing, Ontologies, Digital Libraries, Web Systems, Collaborative Learning and Work, Software Engineering, Software Quality, and Security.

Governance and Innovation

Corporate Governance is the set of processes, customs, policies, laws, regulations, and institutions that regulate the way in which a company is directed, managed, or controlled. This line of research encompasses the study of the relationships between the various actors involved (stakeholders) and the company's objectives. The main actors are shareholders, senior management, and the board of directors. Other participants in Corporate Governance are employees, suppliers, clients, banks and other creditors, regulatory institutions (such as the CVM and the Central Bank), the environment, and the community in general.

IT Governance, as an integral part of Corporate Governance, is a structure of relationships, controls, and processes that direct the Information Technology area of an organization, in order to add value to the business through balanced risk management with the return of IT investments. For many organizations, the information and technology that support the business represent their most valuable resource. In addition, in a highly competitive and dynamic business environment, excellent managerial skills are required, in which IT must support decision-making in a fast, constant manner and with acceptable costs.

Nowadays, the issue of IT Governance is of great relevance, given the difficulty of organizations in guaranteeing shareholders the return of high investments in Information Technology with adequate risk management. Therefore, there is a need for the Academy to contribute to this debate, offering models and methodologies that provide Governance to the IT area of organizations, through the systematic preparation of research focusing on the aspects of decision-making, control, and management of these issues.

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Innovative Room

The structure of the UCB innovation laboratories was designed to inspire interdisciplinarity and the construction of significant knowledge for those involved. The space is suitable for research, idea sharing, and debates. The favorable environment motivated by the different activities proposed constitutes a differential that UCB consolidated in this course with 21 years' experience.

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Gross monthly fee: 24 x R$ 2,898.71*

Monthly fee with Business Discount: 24 x R$ 2,521,87**

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*Values for the year 2025.

**Consult conditions with the sales team.

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Check out the matrix of the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program in Governance, Technology and Innovation at UCB.

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