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Operations and Technology Management
         - developing leaders who create business value

Operations and Technology Management (OTM) is an MBA specialization for those seeking positions as consultants, analysts, product/service managers, project leaders, business developers, or operations, information technology, and supply chain managers – while priming themselves for senior leadership roles.

OTM’s flexible curriculum provides for both depth and breadth, and focuses on developing key skill sets needed to be successful in today’s organizations. You can follow one of three tracks:

• Operations Management – Manufacturing Enterprises
• Operations Management – Service Organizations
• Information Technology Management.

Within each track, you can choose among a broad array of elective courses drawn from both inside the School of Business (e.g., operations, information systems, finance, marketing, entrepreneurship) and from other disciplines (e.g., law, biotechnology, engineering, health care).

Our graduates acquire soft and hard skills that allow them to design, manage, and improve systems and business processes that have immediate impact on customer value generation. They also develop a broad foundation that allows them to master complex and integrated business problems of strategic importance. Academic course work is complemented by interactions with upper-level managers through individually assigned mentors, and through advisory board meetings, guest lectures, field trips, project work, socials, and internships.

Employment

Recent graduates have assumed positions in strategy and business development, consulting, financial analysis and investment, operations planning, supply chain analysis, logistics planning, product management, business analysis, and enrolled in corporate leadership development programs.

Organizations that have hired Erdman Center graduates belong to a variety of industries, illustrating the versatility of this degree (see our Alumni page for a full listing):

Healthcare & biotechnology sector
Abbott Labs, Guidant, Novartis, Promega, EPIC Systems, GE Healthcare

Consulting
Accenture, Celerant, Deloitte, ZS Associates

Financial services
Capital One, State of Wisconsin Investment Board

Technology sector
Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Intuit, Sony, i2, Intel, Philips Broadband Networks, Samsung, Schlumberger, Berbee Information Networks

Automotive & equipment
Case New Holland, General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, Deere & Co, Delphi, Johnson Controls, Harley-Davidson, Goodyear

Industrial products
Grainger, Eaton, Sonoco, TRW, JohnsonDiversey

Consumer products
Kimberly-Clark, Spectrum Brands, Sorrento Lactalis