Students

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.