Students

“Long and winding” doesn’t even begin to describe the road Rozaliya Everstova has traveled to land at the Department of Information Systems — and more specifically, her decision to focus her studies on computer information systems.

The Department of Information Systems added four new faculty members this fall, building expertise in business analytics among other relevant areas of research, and adding to the department’s store of industry experience.

Every summer, a group of researchers are selected for Dean’s Summer Research grants. These funds allow professors to use the summer months to dig into new work or bear down on a large project.

Raghu Santanam, chair of the Department of Information Systems provides his readers with insight into the developments that have taken place in the IS field since the 1990s. Santanam also gives his readers some information on the direction of the future of IS.

More than 90 percent of marketers consider social media important to their businesses, and 84 percent of them integrate it into their marketing communications plans, according to Social Media Examiner’s 2015 report on the social media marketing industry.

The shifting economics of IT has me pondering how all of these developments will impact how we should be educating our business information and analytics students — and all business students for that matter.