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2009

Faculty Publications, Information Systems & Technology

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Data Warehousing And Business Intelligence Skills For Information Systems Graduates: Analysis Based On Marketplace Demand, A. Shirani, Maria Malu H. Roldan Jan 2009

Data Warehousing And Business Intelligence Skills For Information Systems Graduates: Analysis Based On Marketplace Demand, A. Shirani, Maria Malu H. Roldan

Faculty Publications, Information Systems & Technology

In an effort to keep information systems (IS) curriculum current with emerging technologies, this research reports the result of a survey of marketplace demand for database, data warehousing and business intelligence skills. Sample job and skills data were obtained from Dice.com’s online postings for jobs that required a bachelor’s degree in IS or equivalent qualifications. Cluster analysis revealed some skill overlap among the three job categories. Significant skills for each category of jobs, along with skill and vendor rankings, are reported.


Comparing The Effectiveness Of Public Vs. Private Blogging In A Management Information Systems Strategy Course, Maria Malu H. Roldan, A. Shirani Jan 2009

Comparing The Effectiveness Of Public Vs. Private Blogging In A Management Information Systems Strategy Course, Maria Malu H. Roldan, A. Shirani

Faculty Publications, Information Systems & Technology

This paper reports on a study of the use of blogs to support a Management Information Systems Strategy class requiring higher level thinking skills. Comparison of the use of private vs. public blogs showed that public sites were more effective in providing students with the skills to assess the potential of emerging technologies and to integrate blogs into their daily activities.


Service Science,Management, Engineering, And Design (Ssmed): An Emerging Discipline -- Outline And References, J. Spohrer, Stephen K. Kwan Jan 2009

Service Science,Management, Engineering, And Design (Ssmed): An Emerging Discipline -- Outline And References, J. Spohrer, Stephen K. Kwan

Faculty Publications, Information Systems & Technology

The growth of the global service economy has led to a dramatic increase in our daily interactions with highly specialized service systems. Service (or value-cocreation) interactions are both frequent and diverse, and may include retail, financial, healthcare, education, on-line, communications, technical support, entertainment, transportation, legal, professional, government, or many other types of specialized interactions. And yet surprisingly few students graduating from universities have studied anything about service or service systems. Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Design (SSMED), or service science for short, is an emerging discipline aimed at understanding service and innovating service systems. This article sketches an outline and …


Using Information Noise To Compute The Economic Benefit Of A Search Service, Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan, Stephen K. Kwan Jan 2009

Using Information Noise To Compute The Economic Benefit Of A Search Service, Shailaja Venkatsubramanyan, Stephen K. Kwan

Faculty Publications, Information Systems & Technology

Search services are now ubiquitously employed in searching for documents on the Internet and on enterprise intranets. Search services may exhibit different behavior depending on the type of information need, the quality of the search service, the ease of filtering results, the user’s domain knowledge and search experience. Users are thus faced with the selection of a search service in order to minimize cost, reduce uncertainty, and maximize the benefits derived for their efforts. This research develops a model of the search process and considers the noise effects of querying, search and filtering of results to derive a benefit measure …


Internet Search Statistics As A Source Of Business Intelligence: Searches On Foreclosure As An Estimate Of Actual Home Foreclosures, G. Kent Webb Jan 2009

Internet Search Statistics As A Source Of Business Intelligence: Searches On Foreclosure As An Estimate Of Actual Home Foreclosures, G. Kent Webb

Faculty Publications, Information Systems & Technology

Historical search data, describing the volume of searches by topic and region, have recently become freely available. This provides a potentially valuable source of data useful for business intelligence about conditions external to the organization where data is sometimes sparse. As an experiment for a business application, Google searches on the keyword “foreclosure” were correlated with actual U.S. home foreclosures over the past 4 years. The resulting regression analysis shows a very good correlation, indicating that searches on “foreclosure” provide a very accurate estimate of trends in actual U.S. home foreclosures and may provide an early warning system. In a …