These skills can help future professionals understand the importance and the nuances of keeping information protected and consumers well informed. Businesses today rely on information about their consumers, competitors, and emerging opportunities in their industries. Data collection is the first step toward uncovering valuable information, but it needs to be properly organized and managed to be useful to a business.
In IS Data Science for Business, students will gain an understanding of knowledge generation, transfer, and sharing.
Students can learn how to collect and understand data like web traffic and details about the people who visit their websites. The Cyber Security Management concentration gives students the skills to manage security teams tasked with protecting sensitive information.
Part of this task requires understanding what happens in the aftermath of a cyber attack. IS Digital Forensics gives students a unique view into the investigation process following a cyber crime. Students can learn about how investigations are conducted and how to preserve evidence.
However, to be successful in these roles, students need more than a degree; they need hard skills that will drive their decisions and support their initiatives. Everyone who works in business, from someone who pays the bills to the person who hires and fires, uses information systems. For example, a supermarket could use a computer database to keep track of which products sell best.
And a music store could use a database to sell CDs over the Internet. Students also learn how to manage various information systems so that they best serve the needs of managers, staff and customers. MIS students learn how to create systems for finding and storing data and they learn about computer databases, networks, computer security and lots more.
It is useful to compare MIS to some of the other fields related to information technology. Here at The University of Arizona there are at least three computer related departments and programs. The table below will help to show the differences. If you are interested in business and technology, like theory but not too much, like technology enough to want to keep up with what's hot but don't want to be writing programs or putting together chips all your life, then MIS is for you.
We believe that the most upwardly mobile career path for those who like to work with business and technology is definitely in MIS. There are a lot of different profiles, but there are some traits we've found make great MIS professionals.
MIS professionals help firms realize maximum benefit from investment in personnel, equipment, and business processes. MIS is a people-oriented field with an emphasis on service through technology. Businesses use information systems at all levels of operation to collect, process, and store data. Management aggregates and disseminates this data in the form of information needed to carry out the daily operations of business.
Everyone who works in business, from someone who pays the bills to the person who makes employment decisions, uses information systems. A car dealership could use a computer database to keep track of which products sell best.
A retail store might use a computer-based information system to sell products over the Internet. In fact, many if not most businesses concentrate on the alignment of MIS with business goals to achieve competitive advantage over other businesses. A total of 9 units are needed for each concentration certificate. Concentrations may be subject to change, please discuss with your academic advisor. Students in the TLP plan of study are automatically considered for academic scholarships and other benefits that cover all tuition.
Learn about the Technology Leadership Program. Our AZSecure cybersecurity program is a two-year, on-campus program.
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