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What is a non-commodity skill? David Woody, vice president for technologies at American Express, talked with us about the leadership qualities he looks for when hiring IT professionals. A member of the Professional Advisory Board at the W. P.

Ethan Owen already had a bachelor's degree when he decided to pursue the Computer Information Systems program.

There's little margin for error when you're in the business of selling electrons. After all, if an electron traveled around the world instead of bouncing around the nucleus of an atom, it would circle the earth some 8.3 times in one second.

Take a final exam or take on a real-world project: That's the option each of Raghu Santanam's students get in his class on business process and workflow analysis. An associate professor of information systems for the W. P.

In the Web's early days, self-styled seers proclaimed that the ironclad law of online commerce would be survival of the cheapest. Consumers could compare products with a few clicks of a mouse, these folks said, and thus they'd all soon migrate to the places where they paid the least.

How does your organization make decisions? Thomas Davenport, a professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and author of "Competing on Analytics: The Science of Winning," has taken a systematic look at the way decisions are made.

Last fall when the Department of Information Systems was beginning to think about a new master of science program, chairman Michael Goul took several ideas to the department's Professional Advisory Board (PAB).

Thomas Davenport, a professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and author of "Competing on Analytics: The Science of Winning," says his research  shows that real-life organizations, like Dilbert's company, often don't use good decision processes.

Privacy once meant drawing the drapes. Now that we depend on technology to do the world's business, privacy means securing data, protecting personal information and keeping hackers at bay.

An explosion of electronic data is creating more demand for more storage capacity and for more servers. More servers mean more energy demands, increased costs and a greater impact on the environment.