In today’s globalized economy, technology not only plays a more and more important strategic role in the overall business, but also is well positioned to create competitive advantage through inventing new markets or new business models. At the same time, online review platforms such as Amazon and Yelp have never made customers’ voice heard louder and clearer. This calls for student talents who ...

The work to develop a model curriculum and guidelines for undergraduate degree programs in Information Systems has evolved over a number of years. The current version of this effort is called the Information Systems 2002 (IS 2002) model curriculum. Many Business schools have used these guidelines as a basis for improving their IS curriculum. However, we have found, in a previous study, that, IS...

The paper is devoted to the problem of teaching e-business in Ukrainian universities. We would like to answer the question: is there a need for an e-business degree in Ukraine? The answer is affirmative. E-business degree curriculum based on current degrees and courses is proposed. Some ways of introducing e-business skills training are discussed.

Firstly, it was found that the Indian curriculum is far more instrumental than the American curriculum. Emphasis was placed on business applications of technology, laying bare the desire to turn graduates into engineers. Chemistry, Physics, and Electronics were well represented in the Indian curriculum but not at all in the American curriculum, possibly reflecting an Indian preference for this ...

As increasing number of organizations are embracing Business Process Management (BPM), the need for including it in business school curriculum is ever-growing. In particular IS (Information Systems) programs face this challenge even more because of potential new skill sets that its graduates require to compete in the changing job market. While some of the programs in business schools have stood...

Evaluation is a fundamental issue in any education activity. It can be defined as a systematic process that collects, analyzes, and reports well-founded information about the accomplishment of educational goals in order to correctly assess how an educational programme is effective. There is a strict interaction between teaching and evaluation in any education process. Indipendently of the quali...

The quantity of information around us is rising wherever we look. Companies are using Business Intelligence techniques to explore data to get a complete view of their operations which allows them to discover trends, improve their forecasting and operate more efficiently. The banking industry perceives Business Intelligence as a major tool for determining the consumer creditworthiness. For that ...

This paper presents a new curriculum for the Internet and e-business that has been developed at University of Redlands in Southern California with first offering in 2000. The paper presents the new MSIT Degree in the context of the MSIS 2000 Model Curriculum (Gorgone et al., 2000). An important similarity is an element of integration, but how the integration is achieved is different. The paper ...