Carlson School of Management

Information Systems Specialization

An emphasis in information systems provides students with the ability to lead in the digital age. The Carlson School is ranked #3 best business school in the nation for information systems (U.S. News & World Report, 2012). Students taking this emphasis will appreciate the profound and often disruptive impact information and communication technologies have on business and society. Students will garner the necessary skills to leverage IT to create efficient organizations characterized by standardized business processes and integrated data. Additionally, the emphasis will prepare students for an increasingly compliance and security intensive environments due to heavy integration of IT with key financial and accounting processes. Finally, they will learn how to innovate and create top-line growth and differentiation opportunities based on data-driven business intelligence, harnessing social media to develop customer intimacy and by optimally leveraging a global sourcing of IT and IT enabled business processes.
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Students with an emphasis in information systems will be attractive candidates for careers in strategic and technology consulting, business analytics and predictive modeling, compliance and auditing of business processes, global sourcing management, e-procurement, ERP consulting, vendor relationship management, project management, IT governance, business facing roles of the IT functions of all major corporations and as search and computational advertising and social media specialists.

Recommendations for an emphasis


The following courses are recommended for an information systems emphasis. It is recommended that 12 elective credits be completed for an emphasis in information systems. (In Spring 2013 the guidelines for this emphasis were updated from 10 to 12 credits)

 

IDSc 6401 Decision Technologies (2 credits)
IDSc 6421 Financial Information Systems and Technologies (2 credits)
IDSc 6423 Enterprise Systems (2 credits)
IDSc 6435 Business Process Excellence (2 credits)
IDSc 6442 E-Sourcing and E-Auctions (2 credits)
IDSc 6444 Business Intelligence (2 credits)
IDSc 6465 Global Sourcing of IT and IT Enabled Services (4 credits)
IDSc 6471 Knowledge Management (2 credits)
IDSc 6481 Managerial Decision Making (2 credits)
IDSc 6490 Topics: Business of Blogs, Wikis & Online Social Networks (2 credits)
IDSc 6490 Topics: Information Security (2 credits)
IDSc 6490 Topics: Advanced Business Intelligence (2 credits)

 

Additionally, we recommend that students also consider incorporating interdisciplinary courses to obtain a well-rounded business foundation. The following courses are suggested as complementary to an emphasis in information systems.

 

FINA 6242 Advanced Corporate Finance Analysis and Decisions (4 credits)
MGMT 6050 Management of Innovation and Change (2 credits)
MGMT 6040 International Strategy and Organization (2 credits)
SCO 6051 Service Management (2 credits)
ENTR 6041 New Product Design and Business Development (4 credits)

 

Students should keep in mind that not all courses listed above are offered every semester. Students should check One Stop and/or the Class Schedule page to verify each semester's course offerings as well as the professors assigned to those courses.

Brief course descriptions and a tentative list of when the course is being offered can be found on the Courses page.

Department Advisor:

Mani Subramani
Associate Professor
612-624-3522
subra010@umn.edu

MBA Student Affairs Advisor:

Christina Holdvogt
Associate Director of Student Affairs
612-625-7582
choldvog@umn.edu

MBA Admissions Advisor:

Peter Woxland
Associate Director of Admissions & Recruiting
612-626-0727
woxla005@umn.edu

 

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