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In most PhD programs at American universities, students spend their first two years in the classroom, taking seminars and basic courses before exploring independent research in subsequent years.

Technology now enables organizations to amass and organize vast quantities of data about business processes and customers. Data can deliver efficiency and competitive advantage, but businesses must be able to use the information they collect strategically.

Last week I delivered an invited keynote panel presentation at the 8th IEEE World Congress on Services where IEEE made a major announcement about cloud computing.

With chapters in countries across the globe, the Society for Information Management is the premier organization worldwide for senior IT executives. SIM is also a key partner with the Department on Information Management in developing professional talent.

MSIM alumnus Lisa Perez says that data from her recycling business shows that 14 to 22 percent of waste generated by resorts and events is food scraps. Fruits and vegetables can be composted, but not meat, so businesses have had little reason to recycle food scraps.

Information systems professor Paul Steinbart will spend fall semester on sabbatical, working with defense contractor, General Dynamics, in the company’s Phoenix location. A sabbatical gives a professor a chunk of time to study a topic in-depth.

The signature of the MSIM program is the group project -- a year-long, highly detailed project that asks students to both identify and solve a real-world problem at a real-world company.

Summer may be underway, but campus does not slow down much. This is especially true for our incoming Evening MSIM students, who start an intense year of study this month. Read on for more news about our students and faculty.

Late last month, the Greater Phoenix Economic Council (GPEC) announced it had succeeded in landing two major expansions to Phoenix metropolitan-area digital platform companies.The announcement came on the heels of a GPEC visit to Silicon Valley where target industries were information techno

Business schools are in the midst of rankings season and magazines like U.S. News & World Report have announced their most recent verdicts. At the W. P.