Management Information Systems

MIS is… integration… transformation Strategic Level Drivers IS People Operational Level Drivers MIS is concerned with the effective integration of ALL components of information systems; people, business processes and information technology in order to help businesses achieve strategic goals, solve business problems and operate optimally. Process IT

It’s Not Just About the Technology Analysis & Design Change Management Project Management People Skills Business Acumen Leadership

Why OU MIS? Quality Education Great Faculty Exciting Career #11 MIS program in the nation Relevant and dynamic curriculum Experience with REAL systems: SAP Quality Education Award winning teachers Industry experience We care about you! Great Faculty We help create career opportunities Abundance of high paying jobs Highest starting salary of COB graduates Exciting Career

What do MIS graduates do?

Business Analyst

IT Consulting

Project Management

Consulting- Risk Services Forensics Audit

Data Management & Analytics

The OU MIS Job Market OU MIS 2014 offers $54K ++ More jobs than ever Top recruiting destination nationwide Source: April 2014 Salary Survey, National Association of Colleges and Employers

Curriculum What classes do I take? Where do I start? OU MIS #11 Nationwide What classes do I take? Where do I start?

The OU MIS Major: 6 courses in 3 semesters Systems Analysis and Design MIS 2800 Information Management MIS 3200 Systems Development MIS 3800 Enterprise Systems Implementation MIS 4200 IS Consulting Project MIS 4800 MIS Capstone Optional Elective MIS 4901 (Seminar MIS 2010 Information Analysis and Design CLUSTER MIS 2020 (MIS 202) Business Information Systems

Proposed Analytics co-Major 5 courses in 3 semesters Cob Students MIS 2010 Information Management MIS 2800 Advanced BI MIS 4580 Marketplace Analytics MKT 4700 QBA 2010 QBA 3710 Prescriptive Analytics Co-Req 3720 QBA 4710 Predictive Analytics QBA 3720 QBA3710 - intro to data science and information management; understanding how to extract knowledge from data through descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive and visual analytics   MIS2800 - structured data modeling and information management; intro to business intelligence through reporting and dashboards (including visual what-if scenario analysis) MIS4900 - structured, unstructured and streaming data modeling, management and processing (no such thing as big data, just all data); traditional EDW, dimensional and NoSQL categories of DBMS tools to address big data; using visual data discovery tools to help explore big data 3 new classes: Predictive Analytics (QBA) - forecasting methodologies, supervised and unsupervised learning (continuous, classification, clustering) -regression trees, data mining  Prescriptive Analytics (QBA) - optimization and management science, decision support and decision automation -web design, customer selection, media selection Marketplace Analytics (MKT) – application project based capstone which assumes a strong understanding of all techniques, methodologies, etc leading up to it; students will address all aspects of analytics working at length with cutting edge visualization tools focusing on disseminating the complete story of the data to support business decision making Business Core Pre-requisites Analytics Co-major required courses

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