MSc AI for Business Transformation

Understand how digital businesses create value and how technology decisions are shaped by markets, organisational culture and commercial priorities. Use that understanding to assess opportunities, navigate internal politics and plan your own career development.

Topic include: Digital Economy, Tech Ecosystems & Platforms, Strategic Tech Implementation, Navigating Commercial Politics, Organisational Dynamics & Culture, Industry-Specific Tech Adoption, Career Pathways & Progression, Professional Self-Assessment and Designing Your Career Strategy.

Full module specification Led by Paul Forrest

Evaluate where AI can create business value, where it falls short and what successful adoption requires. Explore implementation challenges, human–AI collaboration, risk and ethics so you can make better decisions about how your organisation uses AI.

Topic include: Business AI Fundamentals, AI Limitations and Boundaries, AI in Strategic Decision-Making, AI Deployment Challenges, AI and Human Collaboration, Organisational Transformation, Risk Management in AI, Ethical AI and Social Responsibility and Future AI Trends.

Full module specification Led by Dr Yuri Jiang

Learn to turn digital priorities into organised delivery. Apply agile, Scrum and lean approaches while managing stakeholders, budgets, resources and risk. Understand how governance and change management help keep projects aligned with business goals.

Topic include: Digital Product Lifecycle, Agile and Scrum, Lean Methodologies, Alignment with Business Goals, Stakeholder Management, Change Management, Resource and Budget Control, Risk Management and Governance and Compliance.

Full module specification Led by Dr Ramy Hammady

Learn how to design digital systems around the people who use them. Investigate user needs and workflows, evaluate usability and identify barriers to adoption. Develop the understanding to make better design decisions and work more effectively with design and delivery teams.

Topic include: Human-Centred Design, Understanding Users, UX Design Techniques, Usability Evaluation, Information Architecture, Design Thinking, Advanced Design Principles, Error Prevention & Recovery and Agile Collaboration.

Full module specification Led by Dr Ramy Hammady

Develop your approach to leading innovation when priorities compete and outcomes are uncertain. Explore how to support creative teams, manage resistance, assess risk and scale promising ideas while keeping work connected to organisational goals.

Topic include: Principles of Innovation, Leadership Styles, Fostering Creativity, Managing Innovation Teams, Navigating Change, Risk Management, Scaling Innovation, Collaboration Models and Digital Transformation.

Full module specification Led by Dr Milyan Hills

Build AI agents that connect language models, tools and data to carry out multi-step tasks. Explore how to manage conversation context, integrate information securely and include human oversight. This technical option involves practical programming and AI system development.

Topic include: Agentic AI Overview, LLM Integration Techniques, Managing Conversation Context, Advanced Prompt Engineering, Developing LLM Agents, Safety and Human Oversight, Semantic Retrieval and Embeddings, Secure Data Integration and Fine-Tuning and Deployment.

Full module specification Led by Dr Vimal Dwivedi

Learn to build and evaluate machine learning models using Python. Prepare data, compare algorithms and test how well models perform on prediction and classification tasks. This technical option develops practical skills in data preparation, model selection and validation.

Topic include: Fundamentals of Machine Learning, Data Preprocessing and Cleaning, Supervised Learning Algorithms, Unsupervised Learning and Dimensionality Reduction, Feature Engineering and Selection, Model Evaluation and Validation, Hyperparameter Tuning and Optimization, Ensemble Methods and Foundations for Deep Learning.

Full module specification Led by Dr Sadaqat ur Rehman

Gain the essential skills to launch, manage, scale, and exit successful online businesses in the age of AI. Learn how to assess a digital business opportunity and develop a credible route to market. Explore business models, product–market fit, finance, marketing and operations, including the decisions involved in launching, growing and exiting a venture.

Topic include: Digital Business Models, Product Market Fit, Entrepreneurial Finance Strategies, Value Proposition, Pitching and Presentation, Digital Marketing Strategies, Product Management, Operational Excellence, Financial Acumen and Growth Hacking.

Full module specification Led by Paul Forrest

Develop practical programming skills in R and Python to prepare, analyse and visualise data. Work with data structures, libraries and common analysis techniques so you can turn raw datasets into evidence for decisions.

Topic include: Programming Fundamentals, Error Handling, Data Structures Mastery, Data Input and Output, Advanced Data Manipulation, Data Visualisation Techniques, Statistical Computing, Applied Data Analysis and Real-World Problem Solving.

Full module specification Led by Dr Sadaqat ur Rehman

Learn to turn business needs into clear, prioritised requirements that delivery teams can act on. Practise identifying stakeholder needs, defining system behaviour, controlling scope and checking that the proposed solution addresses the original problem.

Topic include: Eliciting Requirements, Analysing Requirements, Modelling System Behaviours, Specifying Requirements, Prioritising Requirements, Maintaining Traceability, Managing Scope Creep, Validating and Testing and Agile Framework Integration.

Full module specification Led by Kosmas Kosmopoulos

Bring your learning together in an independent project, supported by one-to-one supervision and structured seminars. Investigate a problem, develop and evaluate a practical response, and communicate your findings. Depending on your approved proposal, your output could include a framework, implementation plan, analytical tool or prototype.

Full module specification Led by Dr Milyan Hills