Recent surveys of information technology management professionals show that understanding business domains in terms of business productivity and cost reduction potential, knowledge of different vertical industry segments and their information requirements, understanding of business processes and client-facing skills are more critical for Information Systems personnel than ever before. In an att...

This paper describes a new Financial Information Systems curriculum that integrates information technology and financial information in the development of business information systems, and discusses the problems we experienced in establishing the new program. Our intention is to provide accounting graduates with the knowledge they need to leverage the latest information technologies to support ...

This paper reports our experience in the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum at the point of intersection between investment management in telecommunications for a joint MSc degree and the evaluation of the curriculum. Lecturers and professors from three faculties of Plovdiv University participated in development of the “Investment Management in Telecommunications” (IMT) Master progr...

The era of knowledge economy has come, and "knowledge" has become a key resource for enterprises. How to keep creating and utilizing new knowledge has become an important topic for modern business administration. In the future, how to manage "knowledge" efficiently and effectively will be a crucial issue. However, due to differences in training backgrounds, people may have different perspective...

Within the Information Systems Discipline, business analysis has traditionally been considered a part of system development, and is usually taught as a part of systems analysis and design courses. Recent years however, have seen professionalization of business analysis which has culminated in the establishment of the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA). Since its incorporation i...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the application of business process reengineering (BPR) and benchmarking principles to redesign an undergraduate course on BPR to achieve continuous improvements. The principles are applied on a course on BPR in the curriculum of engineering management (EM) program at Stevens Institute of Technology. The EM program aims to provide the student...

Business process management (BPM) has become widely accepted within business community as a means for improving business performance. However, it is of the highest importance to incorporate BPM as part of the curriculum at the university level education in order to achieve the appropriate acceptance of the method. Goal of the paper is to determine the current state of education in business proc...

The ability to understand, document, and suggest improvements for a business process is an import­ ant skill for an accounting student for the following reasons: (1) efficient business processes give businesses a competitive advantage; (2) business process analysis provides auditors with an assess­ ment of business risk; and (3) successful enterprise resource planning implementation depends on ...

Smaller undergraduate colleges that offer degrees in Information Systems (IS) and also provide general purpose computing instruction have to reconcile competing demands upon curriculum design. This paper presents one response to IS2002 Model Curriculum in the context of the maturing of the Information Technology field. It presents a model for a course for IS majors and general business students...