Last week the news of Google's new Hummingbird conversational search engine had analysts buzzing. One of the implications is that business users will expect the same capability from their applications. This is exciting – it adds more fuel to the fire of the consumerization of IT trend.

Information Systems Professor Ajay Vinze has traveled the world as a Fulbright senior specialist since 2008, and now he is continuing his journey on behalf of ASU and the W. P. Carey School.

Campus is crackling with energy this fall as a record number of students arrive ready to prepare for their future. The Department of Information Systems welcomed a promising group of doctoral students, even as our most recently hooded Ph.D.s started careers at universities across the nation.

Hal Varian of Google search engine fame pointed out as far back as 1999 that: 1) More information helps us make better decisions, 2) The economic value of information equals the value of the best decision we can make with the information minus the value of best decision we can make without the info

In case you haven’t heard, things are really heating up this summer in higher education circles concerning Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs, for short).

When you check into a fine hotel the concierge is waiting for you in the lobby with all the information you need to navigate successfully through an unfamiliar city.

The Society for Information Management Arizona Chapter has been generating buzz in the Phoenix-area community. That’s thanks in part to the organization’s IT Leader of the Year award, which this year went to Marc Chesley, CTO at Infusionsoft, who is now a member of the SIM board.

Companies have invested heavily in information technology known as Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems, which generate everything from basic budget and financial statements to complex forecasts of how to best meet consumer demand.

In a recent debate with Twitter investor Mark Andreessen of Netscape fame, Paypal founder Peter Thiel observed that the millennial generation grew up watching flying cars on their Saturday morning TV shows. But today, all we have for evidence of innovation is Twitter, he argued.

The current James Bond movie, Skyfall, delivers the action and effects we’ve come to expect of the 007 franchise.