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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.

High-profile computer security breaches -- involving exposure of sensitive consumer information, uncovering of classified documents or disruption of corporate and government websites and systems – hit the news with alarming frequency.

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.

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.

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.

A fresh easel pad waited at each of four round tables when members of the Executive Advisory Board (EAB) broke into groups to discuss what students learn in the department’s Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) program.

Computer hacking is a major problem in these days of electronic file systems and Internet commerce, prompting many companies to hire information technology security experts to help protect their sensitive information assets. A budding partnership between the W. P.

Project management uses a series of processes to execute projects efficiently and effectively. Its benefits have recently become widely understood and its use has spread to all industries, with construction and IT being two of the primary drivers.

IT professionals bring specialized knowledge to companies, but it's a mistake if they think of themselves as separate from the business, warns Avnet senior vice president and chief information officer Steve Phillips. Good IT leaders are grounded in the business, and approach technology as a tool.