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While shopping online for a computer a few years ago, Fred Riggins noted that three Compaq models offered the FireWire feature he wanted. The three were priced on a low, medium and high range, corresponding to which processor they used.

Barbara Hoffnagle had not contemplated becoming the first Chief Information Executive (CIE) at Salt River Project (SRP), the country's third-largest public power utility.

The rapidly globalizing world of business and information systems doesn't scare Nadine Yassine -- in fact, she welcomes it.

Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. is one of the largest distributors of electronics components, computer products and embedded technology, a company whose roots go back to 1921. But technology is more than a product at Avnet.

Software as a Service is reshaping corporate computing and eventually will become the means by which many small and medium-sized companies acquire and use most of their applications, say Information Systems Professors Julie Smith David and Michael Lee.

Many business school-based IT programs are balanced heavily toward technology, but not the Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) at the W. P. Carey School.

Information Systems Lecturer Matthew McCarthy says "there's no business that doesn't have IT coursing through it." That's why in the W. P. Carey School, all incoming students -- no matter what major they have chosen -- are required to take CIS 105.

Just a few years ago, the Arizona chapter of the Society for Information Management was struggling, but Kevin Sauer, the current chapter president, decided to do something about it. These days membership is strong and meetings feature expert speakers.

Leigh Dow, director of the Toolbox for IT at Toolbox.com, addressed the new developments in social media at a recent Showcase Series event sponsored by the Center for Advancing Business Through Information Technology (CABIT) at the W. P. Carey School's Department of Information Systems.

In many organizations, the internal audit and information security functions can't seem to get on the same communication wavelength.