Program overview
The advanced certificate in service leadership and innovation offers service professionals cutting edge skills, abilities, and applied service knowledge. The certificate will heighten the student’s capacity to function in today’s highly competitive and quickly evolving service environment.
Curriculum
The advanced certificate is made up of five courses that help students master the following concepts:
- understanding service performance system design and implementation parameters,
- understanding and using service value delivery system structures and processes,
- comprehending the evolving strategic environment of service-sector businesses,
- establishing and using service-system elements/dimensions,
- building service metrics from feedback processes,
- understanding and implementing customer relationship management, and
- constructing innovative approaches to service and managing those changes.
Semester conversion
Effective fall 2013, RIT will convert its academic calendar from quarters to semesters. Each program and its associated courses have been sent to the New York State Department of Education for approval of the semester plan. For reference, the following charts illustrate the typical course sequence for this program in both quarters and semesters. Students should consult their academic advisers with questions regarding planning and course selection.
Service leadership and innovation, advanced certificate, typical course sequence (quarters)
| Course | Qtr. Cr. Hrs. | |
|---|---|---|
| First Year | ||
| 0625-750 | Elements of Service Management: A Systems Approach | 4 |
| 0624-825 | Strategic Process of Service Firms | 4 |
| 0625-842 | Customer Relationship Management | 4 |
| 0625-844 | Breakthrough Thinking | 4 |
| 0625-849 | Service Performance Metrics | 4 |
| Total Quarter Credit Hours | 20 | |
Service leadership and innovation, advanced certificate, typical course sequence (semesters), effective fall 2013
| Course | Sem. Cr. Hrs. | |
|---|---|---|
| First Year | ||
| SERQ-710 | Evolving contexts in service | 3 |
| SERQ-720 | Service scenarios and strategy development | 3 |
| SERQ-730 | Managing Not-for-Profit, Public Sector Projects | 3 |
| SERQ-732 | Service Quality Process in the Not-for-Profit, Public Sector | 3 |
| SERQ-735 | Data Mining in the Not-for-Profit, Public Sector | 3 |
| Total Semester Credit Hours | 15 | |
The certificate may be completed as a stand-alone credential, serve as an entry point for the MS program, or be used to fulfill the requirements for a professional concentration in RIT’s MS program in professional studies.
Admission requirements
The advanced certificate is open to qualified students who meet the requirements for graduate study. Certificate courses are introductory to graduate courses in each area and thus require no prerequisite course work. Qualified students may use individual courses or the certificate in other RIT graduate programs with the appropriate approvals.