Talk:Institute for Management Information Systems

Talk:Institute for Management Information Systems

Firingice (talk) 12:25, 17 June 2012 (UTC)

The institute for Management Information Systems is a reseach institution of the Department of Information systems and Operations, at the Vienna University of economics and business, the largest University focusing on business and economics in Europe. The Business information systems master, which is provided by the Institute is ranked 4th in Western Europe by The Eduniversal Best Masters Ranking. It is composed by 7 senior faculty members and 61 academic staff members, supervised by Prof Dr. Sarah Spiekermann.

History
The institute was originally founded by Prof. Hans Robert Hansen in 1978 who chaired it for over 30 years. Since its founding the development of industry oriented reference models for electronic commerce was a reseach and teaching emphasis. At present, the research activities concentrate on business models, IS architectures, and tools for internet-based consumer information systems (B2C).

Academics
The Management Information systems curiculum combines current Information technology topics with a strong economical foundation. This is reflected in the integration of concepts such as ‘Internet of Things’, ‘Ubiquitous Commerce’ and the ‘Web 2.0’ but also the provision of hands-on experience with business programming courses and IT consulting seminars in cooperation with industry partners.

Besides traditional business computing systems, the institute focus on any kind of client system, including mobile and embedded systems (Radio Frequency Identification, Sensor Networks, cell phones). Research in these areas focuses on understanding IT users’ behavior and expectations in their diverse roles as consumers, citizens, community members or employees. Hence, one of the reseach missions of the institute is the analyse of the ambigous interaction between society and machine. Consequences for IT system design are then deducted based on this user understanding.

Bachelor
As a foundation, the institute offers two introductory courses to Business Information Systems. The first one dealing with the basics of business informatics with a focus on ERP systems whereas the latter put emphasize on modelling business transactions with the software ARIS. The Institute offers a specialization called "Management Information Systems". After students are introduced to the basics of every-day computing, they can choose to learn about data structures or work with the ERP system Microsoft Dynamics. In the following they can learn programming tools for common management routines or hear about key marketing and market models in today‘s E-Commerce.


 * Foundations ICT
 * ERP Systems
 * B2-B E-Commerce
 * E-Government
 * Business Programming 1
 * B-2-C E-Commerce
 * Business Programming 2
 * Ski seminar (winter)
 * IT consulting
 * Privacy and security

Master
At the master level, the Institute offers a specialization in ‘E-Marketing and Services’. This program concentrates on B-2-C innovations and IT product design. The emphasis is put on the role of users, especially concerning privacy and ethical dimension, covered in the course ‘IS and Society’. The interaction between politics and informatics is reflected in the course "E-Democracy".

Entry MIS Special
 * IT Strategy
 * User Driven System Design
 * E-Services
 * Value Sensitive Design
 * E-Marketing
 * Internet Economics and E-Market Models
 * IS and Society
 * E-Democracy
 * IS Service Compliance and Risk Management
 * Current Issues in IS (only in the summer term)

Witschaftsinformatik 1
Prof Hansen and Neumann from the institute published and regulary updated "Wirtschaftsinformatik 1", which is used as a reference book in the german-speaking academic field and has been sold almost 500 000 times.

ITalks
IT Talk is a regulary debating platform which invites experts and thought leaders to discuss and reflect current IT-related topics.

Conf-IRM 2012
International Conference on Information Resources Management],a peer-reviewed forum for researchers from across the globe to share contemporary research on developments in the fields of information systems and information management that has taken place in vienna 2012, has been supervised by the MIS Institute.

Blog "ethical machine"
The head of the institute Sarah Spiekermann composes regulary ethical reflections concering the role of IT and society in the online version of the Austrian newspaper "Der Standard".