"Cloud is cheap, fast and easy! Did we mention fast?!" "No hardware required!" "Why build what someone has already built?" Marketing pitches for cloud solutions sometimes run to hyperbole, creating a communications challenge for IT leaders.

CIS students learn early that preparation -- taking the time to fully prepare to do their best – determines how well they’ll be able to market themselves to a company when it comes to getting that all important internship -- which can open all sorts of doors to their future.

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.

QR codes -- those intricate square graphics -- are showing up on signs, posters, print ads, business cards. They’ve even been painted on sides of buildings. When scanned by your smart phone, QR codes are supposed to take you to something more – more information, music, video.

On January 5 the first students in the new Online MSIM program gathered in Tempe for orientation. That was the first and only opportunity for the students and faculty to meet each other face-to-face until graduation.

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 year 2011 ended on a high note as the information systems community at the W. P. Carey School celebrated their achievements.

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.

Five years ago, the best-selling book "Competing on Analytics" made a case for the use of data to inform decision making.

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?