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Danielle Clark and Kevin Hemmer didn’t really know each other when they were teamed up to compete in the Avnet Tech Games last fall, but they turned out to be a winning combination.

Chief information officers and others familiar with the Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, trend say organizations need to think through the advantages and the challenges of allowing employees to access corporate data with personal devices.

The juxtaposition of two buildings under construction in the Phoenix metropolitan area signifies a new dynamic for business in 2013 and beyond. One is a 1 million square foot data center in Chandler that will be the largest of its kind in the country. The other is the W. P.

A poster outside the departmental office reminds information systems students of the 10 ideals that can lead to a great career in IT. Developed by the department’s executive advisory board, this mantra could be adopted as a ready-made set of resolutions.

2012 will log out in a few weeks, so the time seems right for reflection -- even prognostication.

According to SlashGear, there were half a trillion of them sent last year, but in 2010, there were 6.1 trillion – 193,000 per second. They are the reason many people have thumb injuries, and now there are warm-up exercises to help prevent those injuries.

Tyson Lund is one of the more successful real estate professionals in San Diego County. He credits his CIS coursework at the W. P. Carey School with giving him a distinct advantage over his competition.

Matt Sopha and Yen-Chun Chou are putting the finishing touches on their dissertations and are on track to receive their PhDs in the spring of 2013. "The number of postings and job opportunities has really gone up for faculty positions in information systems," Goul said.

Recently several CIS students in their capstone information systems project course were invited by the Society for Information Management (SIM) to a special event held at Fender’s headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona, to learn how and why IT matters to the company.

The department of information systems and the supply chain management department have joined forces to launch an accelerated and specialized master's degree program in the fast growing field of business analytics.