Diploma in Business

at Canadore College - Stanford Scarborough Campus Canada

Effective management of your supply chain can give you a competitive advantage in this sophisticated environment.
Customers are demanding flexibility, options, rapid delivery and just-in-time support. Today’s successful supply chain managers must be strategists, able to synchronize every effort involved in the process: planning, sourcing, producing, and delivering a product or service.

Program Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes represent culminating demonstrations of learning and achievement. In addition, learning outcomes are interrelated and cannot be viewed in isolation of one another. As such, they should be viewed as a comprehensive whole. They describe performances that demonstrate that significant integrated learning by graduates of the program has been achieved.

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• Examine the connections between strategic objectives, stakeholder expectations, and supply chain design, functions, processes and roles, to guide decision-making, problem-solving and coordination of tasks.
• Determine the value added and financial implications of supply chain decisions and design on overall business profitability, efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Ensure supply chain activities and transactions are compliant with relevant legal, regulatory and contractual obligations, and industry and organization standards and policies for quality, health, safety, accountability, social and environmental responsibility.
• Use risk mitigation tools and strategies to inform supply chain management decisions. Contribute to the acquisition and sale of goods, services and materials in accordance with best practices and public and private sector stakeholder expectations across a variety of industries.
• Contribute to the strategic planning and scheduling of material requirements, resource allocation and inventory for efficient production and fulfillment of customer orders and returns.
• Coordinate the efficient handling and movement of goods, services, materials and related information within and between supply chains.
• Contribute to the identification and management of continuous improvements to functions and processes within and between supply chains.
• Use available technologies to enhance work performance and support supply chain functions, processes, transactions and communications.
• Monitor relevant trends, emerging technologies, and local and global economic, political and environmental issues to enhance work performance and guide management decisions.
• Use leadership and communication skills to establish and manage strategic relationships with a diversity of stakeholders and support the achievement of business goals.
• Develop and apply ongoing strategies for personal, career and professional development

Information Technology is a part of virtually every business and industry. Learn leadership and management skills in this ever-growing and changing industry. As a manager of IT, you will need to plan and organize the activities of your team and deliver IT projects on time and within budget. This innovative program will provide you with highly marketable skills that are sought after across the globe.

What You Learn

• Management fundamentals
• Leadership and communication
• Business process analysis
• Project and risk management
• Procurement and contract management

Mobile devices are everywhere and are used to readily in the business and personal lives of people all over the world. This field is exploding and skilled app developers are in high demand. New applications are being created daily for games, maps, medical applications, banks, media outlets - and the list goes on. Students work hands-on with Blackberry, Playbooks, iPads, and Android devices.

What You Learn

• Develop for Blackberry, Apple, and Android mobile devices
• 3D graphics, animation, rich media
• Game development
• Web development for mobile devices
• Marketing and distribution of apps
• Video and audio editing
• AIR, JAVA, iOS

People are a key resource in businesses, large and small. Learn how industry manages employees for better job satisfaction, staff development, and employee relations in this one-year program. Learn essential human resources functions within the domestic and international business environments like how to facilitate and guide staffing, performance management, training, and health and safety. Gain the skills needed to contribute to organizational development strategies and manage human resources activities of any organization.

What You Learn

• Human resources management and planning
• Corporate training and development
• Mediation skills/conflict resolution
• Labour relations
• Human rights and workplace investigation
• Finance

Prepare for an exciting career in this diverse field. This post-graduate program will help you develop the skills to research, analyze, and manage many aspects of business. Gain transferable skills that will make you more employable or give you the skills and knowledge to start your own business in your area of expertise.

What You Learn

• Marketing for managers
• Entrepreneurship
• International business
• Market research
• Finance
• Statistical analysis

Become skilled in this in-demand and important field. Learn to design, develop and maintain machine components, tools, heating and ventilation systems, power generation and manufacturing plants and equipment, and much more. Mechanical engineering technicians and technologists are sought after in a number of industries including mining, manufacturing, and forestry.

What You Learn (2 Years)

• Computer Aided Design - 3D design
• Electrical/electronic fundamentals
• Fluid mechanics
• Manufacturing processes
• Strength of materials
• HVAC

This one-year Ontario College Graduate Certificate Program prepares graduates for a rewarding career in the field of Project Management. Project Management is a highly sought discipline that involves the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently. Project managers are in high demand across all industries. Graduates of the Project Management Graduate Certificate program will learn how to initiate, plan, monitor and control projects through to successful completion. They acquire the competencies to lead diverse project teams within a broad range of sectors in public, private and not-for-profit settings, while applying content-specific knowledge of their previous studies and experiences. Graduates work in leadership positions, developing and monitoring performance measures and adapting to project constraints, while managing communications within and among teams.

What You Learn

• Project planning
• Scheduling and cost management
• Communication management
• Leadership and human relations
• Procurement and contract management
• Quality management

This program trains students to offer personal care and home management services to clients in community or institutional settings. Personal support workers provide services to clients with physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural challenges. Learn hands-on in the classroom, on community placements and in the home environment simulation lab equipped with high-end fidelity audio/visual equipment and interactive mannequins. PSWs are highly sought after as health care providers, working collaboratively as part of the health care team or in a supported independent living environment.

What You Learn

• Nutritional menu planning
• Clinical and community care (hospital and long-term)
• Simulation and lab work
• Diseases and pharmacology
• Patient client home care

Prepare for a leadership role in a variety of health care settings and learn all aspects of health care operations and concepts as they relate to a multi-disciplinary team. This one year program will prepare you to be responsive to different cultures and behaviours in a number of situations and environments.

What You Learn

• Leadership
• Health care operations
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Financial practices
• Human resources
• Law and ethics
• Admissions Req

Network technologies are used in every modern communication tool from computers to mobile phones, automobiles to home appliances. Train for this dynamic and in-demand field and learn to develop, maintain and support these networks.  Learn all aspects of networking and prepare for a career in this dynamic and ever-changing industry.

What You Learn - 2 year

• Network design, implementation and maintenance
• Routing and switching networks
• Wired and wireless networking
• Network troubleshooting
• Server operations
• Operating systems (client and server)