Business Information Technology
Business Information Technology faculty spearhead research efforts on a wide range of topics at the intersection of computing and business, often in collaboration with faculty from other departments and doctoral students. This research addresses the appropriate, innovative, effective design and use of information technology to serve business needs. Business Information Technology scholars use empirical, behavioral and computational approaches in different types of problem domains, including business value of IT and IT strategy to meet business needs, economics of software development, decision support and supply chain, among others. They draw on the disciplines of computer science, economics, organizational science, cognitive science and organizational, social and cognitive psychology. The Department also runs a research speaker series featuring prominent faculty and industry researchers in information systems.
If you are going to work in business and try to have an impact on how your company does business-how well it coordinates with other companies, how efficiently it conducts its business, how well it manages the knowledge of its employees-then you must understand technology. The Ross School of Business's curriculum in Business Information Technology emphasizes skills in three areas: the fundamentals of business administration; a deep understanding of the role information systems play in business strategy, management and operations; and technical competence that will enable you to analyze genuine business problems from an IS perspective, and to design, build and maintain systems that solve them. Different programs (e.g., BBA, MBA and Ph.D.) emphasize these areas to different degrees. Departmental classes range from those that introduce the student to the problems of managing complex information resources demanded by progressive firms to those that build applied skills with today's computer-based analytical tools -and everything in between.
November 2009 - Thanks for your interest in Business Information Technology at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Our area is not recruiting at this time. Please check back at a later date.
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