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Raghu Santanam will be on sabbatical next year at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. The topic he is exploring could not be timelier.

The Department of Information Systems Executive Advisory Board is a team of CIOs and top level IT professionals who assist the department in evaluating and improving curriculum and making important program decisions.

This just in: each month knowIT brings you news briefs from the faculty and students. Read on to catch media appearances by our faculty and activities organized by our student groupss.

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.

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.

The information systems field has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. The education many IT managers received was weighted toward computer science, but now they are finding that their companies need something different.