Students

In case you haven’t heard, things are really heating up this summer in higher education circles concerning Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs, for short).

When you check into a fine hotel the concierge is waiting for you in the lobby with all the information you need to navigate successfully through an unfamiliar city.

The Society for Information Management Arizona Chapter has been generating buzz in the Phoenix-area community. That’s thanks in part to the organization’s IT Leader of the Year award, which this year went to Marc Chesley, CTO at Infusionsoft, who is now a member of the SIM board.

Companies have invested heavily in information technology known as Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems, which generate everything from basic budget and financial statements to complex forecasts of how to best meet consumer demand.

In a recent debate with Twitter investor Mark Andreessen of Netscape fame, Paypal founder Peter Thiel observed that the millennial generation grew up watching flying cars on their Saturday morning TV shows. But today, all we have for evidence of innovation is Twitter, he argued.

The current James Bond movie, Skyfall, delivers the action and effects we’ve come to expect of the 007 franchise.

March 8, 2013 wasn’t just another day.

Information security professionals need to be change agents, adept in both information and people skills. So believes Aaron Carpenter, president of the Phoenix Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).

As senior manager for targeted communications and content strategy for the pet supply giant PetSmart, MSIM alumnus Mandy Mueller oversees the company's vast and ever-growing e-marketing efforts.

A grim prediction about Assistant Professor Gregory Dawson’s health came true in 2009 when he was diagnosed with an aggressive and fast-moving type of cancer. At first he felt like his body had betrayed him, but after one day of "feeling sorry for myself" he started to fight.