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Before a bank offers you a mortgage re-fi, or a credit card company dangles a low interest rate before your eyes, some information-systems worker has probably pegged you as a promising prospect. He most likely used predictive modeling to do it, and it wasn't a quick, easy task.

It is a widely accepted assumption in the healthcare and information technology industries that electronic medical records in hospitals help reduce costs and enhance the quality of patient care.

A cynic might say that information systems consultants shortchange their clients. They can, for example, promise more than they deliver. Or they can tarry and delay. Or they might ask, on the back end, to bill for "unanticipated" work.

The team from the Department of Information Systems that created decision-support software to help distribute crucial H1N1 vaccine knew that for this project, speed trumped all other protocols.

In this podcast, faculty talk about the distinguishing characteristics of the W. P. Carey School's information systems doctoral program. Unlike many schools, the Department of Information Systems plunges its doctoral students into research right away.

Chaos in clinics" was what one TV news broadcast called 2009's shortage of H1N1 vaccine. Once vaccine did start trickling into the supply chain, it was up to county officials to decide which healthcare providers would get the few doses available, and those decisions had to be made on the fly.

A hallmark of the W. P. Carey School's information systems doctoral program is the expectation that PhD students will participate in — and ideally publish — research during the first two years of what's typically a four or five year course of study.

If you use a cell phone or buy household electronics, there's a good chance you own a device with one or more components distributed by Avnet.

Enterprise systems are becoming increasingly complex, and the price tag for implementation is high. As a result, information technology companies realize that they need managers who possess a comprehensive business/IT perspective. The W. P.

W. P. Carey MBA students specialize in the second year of their program. Those interested in information technology have two choices -- the specialization in information management or the dual W. P. Carey MBA/Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM).