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How does your organization make decisions? Thomas Davenport, a professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and author of "Competing on Analytics: The Science of Winning," has taken a systematic look at the way decisions are made.

Last fall when the Department of Information Systems was beginning to think about a new master of science program, chairman Michael Goul took several ideas to the department's Professional Advisory Board (PAB).

Thomas Davenport, a professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and author of "Competing on Analytics: The Science of Winning," says his research  shows that real-life organizations, like Dilbert's company, often don't use good decision processes.

Privacy once meant drawing the drapes. Now that we depend on technology to do the world's business, privacy means securing data, protecting personal information and keeping hackers at bay.

An explosion of electronic data is creating more demand for more storage capacity and for more servers. More servers mean more energy demands, increased costs and a greater impact on the environment.

Corporations want employees to "think big." Some want them to "think many," as well. Servers, that is.

GMoney is young and loves to shop, but unlike most young women, she's already a homeowner with a low, low mortgage and a respectable savings account. GMoney is the avatar, or online image, of Gina Fung, who in real life is vice president of experiential marketing for Wells Fargo & Co.

Vi TranLe is a woman of many talents. She manages a band, plans weddings, develops apps and is an information technology whiz. All of these skills, she said, have similar traits — they all require execution of a well-thought-out plan.

A year of research and hard work has culminated with first-year research paper presentations for three PhD students in the W. P. Carey Department of Information Systems.

The Department of Information Systems introduces two new initiatives to solve real-world problems and address questions of strategic importance to the digital society.