Program
Eight domains of management, made one through the lens of IT.
Your own business challenges become your monthly assignments. A year of implementing in management, from the very month you learn.
Four design principles running through this curriculum.
The programme's formal title is "MBA in Information Technology Management". The eight modules are no loose collection of knowledge. They are threaded through by four principles.
1. The integration of IT × Management
IT is not one subject among others. It is the perspective that runs beneath all eight modules. The domains directly rooted in IT — IT strategy, digital marketing — of course; but leadership, human resources, finance and governance are likewise redesigned for an era in which technology rewrites the premises of management.
2. Direct connection to the practice of management — no time lag between learning and management
The subject of every assignment is the business challenge you yourself face. Not abstract case studies: you take your own company's reality, grasp it again from its structure with academic frameworks, test it on the ground, and bring it back for verification. Each month's learning feeds straight into the quality of your management decisions.
3. A curriculum that responds now
UITM assures and provides the quality and academic standard of the curriculum, as a European university, and Shibuya Web3 University Co., Ltd. operates it in Japan. Because operation rests with an organisation that has kept standing on the front line of technology's social implementation, the programme takes on 2026's management challenges with 2026's curriculum.
4. Symbiosis with generative AI
Generative AI is used not as a "replacement" but as a "co-pilot" that accelerates learning. Leave the analysis of literature and the structuring of information to AI, and concentrate all your resources on the intellectual creation that belongs to humans: raising the question, choosing the framework, applying it to your company, making the decision.
Eight modules — the whole of management, integrated through the lens of IT.
Eight modules, one each month. Twenty credits per module (160 in total). Each is assessed by a 4,000-word assignment on a real organisation. There are no examinations: assessment is 100% by assignment.
1. Strategic Human Resource Management
Treat people not as cost but as the greatest creative resource, and realise organisational design and change.
2. IT Strategy and Management
Treat IT not as a mere tool but as the core of transformation, and design and implement future-oriented IT strategy from the perspective of top management.
3. Strategic Financial Management
Evaluate the risks and returns of technology investment with rigour, and optimise and decide capital strategy for future growth.
4. Strategic Change Management
Integrate technological innovation with organisational culture, and realise sustained change on the ground.
5. Technopreneurship and Innovation
Cultivate entrepreneurship rooted in information technology, and create new business models and value from untrodden ground.
6. Globalisation and Corporate Governance
Examine the structure of the global economy, and the new forms of governance of the Web3 era.
7. Strategic Leadership
Establish leadership that unites ethics and effectiveness in the age of generative AI, and drive the transformation of the whole organisation.
8. Digital & Social Media Marketing
Command digital and social media to build channel strategy and brand experience grounded in deep insight into customer behaviour.
Working alongside your job, in one year. An optimised learning system.
1. Entry every month — rolling admission
There is an entry point every month. You can begin with the very heat of the moment you decide to learn. The eight modules circulate continuously in this order, month after month without a break; whichever month you begin, one full cycle of the eight completes the programme. Each student is received into a system of close, individual guidance.
2. The structure of classes
As a rule, Saturdays. A hybrid format of online (Zoom) and in person (Shibuya). One lesson of four hours × three lessons, 13:00–17:15 (with a 15-minute break). Designed so that you can keep going while you work.
3. Study load (guideline)
Around 100 hours of study per module (about 12 hours of class + about 88 hours of self-study). Learning of a global standard, deepened through independent self-study.
4. The design of language — think it through in Japanese, finish it in English
Classes are taught in Japanese, to deepen the conceptual understanding at the core of thought and raise the depth of discussion. On that basis, the eight assignments are finished in English. Support is provided both for discussion in Japanese and for writing the English assignments. For those who wish, common courses in academic writing and statistics are also offered.
The three coordinates on which the SCX MBA stands.
On which coordinates did we place this one year? Not as a ranking, but as an outline we chose for ourselves — shown on three axes.
1. Practical immediacy (vertical) × academic rigour (horizontal)
— MBA Executive Award sits top right
— The immediacy to implement in reality in the very month you learn, and academic rigour backed by UITM. We chose the position that lets go of neither.
2. Time efficiency (horizontal) × return on investment (vertical)
— MBA Executive Award sits top right
-- The scarcest resource is time. Working alongside your job, in one year — designed so that the quality of your management decisions rises while you are enrolled.
3. Global reliability (horizontal) × optimisation for Japan (vertical)
—MBA Executive Award sits top right
Reliability that carries in the world, backed by UITM's quality assurance, and learning optimised in Japanese for the realities of Japanese management. We chose to hold both.
Participation asks for resolve.
The MBA Executive Award is a place for leaders with substantial practical experience, and a strong will to create change themselves.
Eligibility (guideline)
- A degree from a four-year university or above.
- At least three years of professional experience — in particular, experience of organisational change or management.
The essence of selection is not the lines of your educational or professional history. It is the will: what do you want to change in your business?
The foundation of international trust.