How many planes? Insight and strategy build on questions and perspectives
The officer in charge of the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 would have had early warning of the Japanese attack that day had he asked his radar watchers how many planes they had spotted. This story is sometimes told to students in the W. P.
The latest scoop: Information Systems faculty and students
The year 2011 ended on a high note as the information systems community at the W. P. Carey School celebrated their achievements.
Taking the lead: W. P. Carey joins SIM to develop business leadership
Harold Geneen of IT&T once said “leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.” Since 1992, the Society for Information Management has been taking that same approach in helping high-potential managers discover and refine their own leadership styles through regional forums.
News: Online MSIM hits the ground; ExxonMobil gift; apps for shopping; fighting flu
The inaugural class of the Online MSIM will be arriving on campus next month for a face-to face orientation. Read more about how the Department of Information Systems and the W. Carey’s online academic services team are developing ways to keep the student experience dynamic.
The future of analytics: Testing folklore and intuition
Five years ago, the best-selling book "Competing on Analytics" made a case for the use of data to inform decision making.
Promises, promises: When one firm breaks them, two could suffer
A psychological contract is an individual’s beliefs about the informal obligations that exist between employer and employee. What happens when an employer fails to come through on these perceived promises?
Read all about it: IS Department updates
Department of Information Systems faculty and students have been making waves! For example, last month we learned that our student organization received laurels for the second year in a row from the Association for Information Systems.
The information systems doctoral program: A diverse community
Committing to a doctoral degree program is a big decision. To understand why someone would take the leap, KnowIT interviewed a sampling of current PhD students.
Recruiting 2.0: IS Department's new, tech-savvy efforts dispel myths, recruit CIS majors
Misperceptions about the IT and information systems field abound among today’s high school and college students. As a result, enrollment in technology majors has dropped off at colleges and universities around the country.
Students learn to see the big picture when training for competition
They might spend most of their undergraduate hours going deep into a major like Computer Information Systems (CIS), but on the job, students will have to marshal an array of knowledge and skills to solve problems.