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SIS is committed to making it easy for our students and faculty to get the real-world exposure, experience and collaboration they need for their education, project and research efforts. We have extraordinary working relationships with business and government organisations and leaders locally, regionally and internationally. Through these relationships, our students have access to internships, projects, mentoring relationships and employment opportunities in every sector of the economy. Our curriculum has access to state-of-the art examples and case studies. Our faculty have access to the technology, applications and management experts in business and government organisations who can help them to identify and explore new and important problem areas for research and exploratory projects.
Through these working relationships, our faculty doing research in information systems technology or management can more easily obtain access to large-scale and realistic data sets and test beds which are so important to developing and validating new concepts, methods and system approaches for research.
Our research and educational efforts range over a wide spectrum. We do deep research on new types of information processing methods, problem solving models, and empirically based analysis and experiments that we believe can lead to new and useful ways of applying information technology solutions. At the same time, we are always working directly with industry and government on applications-oriented education and projects closely tied to current, emerging and future practice.
Across our spectrum of research and educational activities, we encourage our SIS faculty and students to explore linkages across IT related research, professional practice and business impact.
This includes exploration of the two-way linkages between our deep research thinking, analysis and academic scholarship with potential real-world impact in the near or long term. We challenge our research faculty and Ph.D. students to understand how their research and publication results on methods, models and empirical demonstrations can be used to enable or understand change, transformation or value creation in a business or organisational setting, or across an entire industry. We say to our faculty, “The world of business is your laboratory for exploring how your research and projects can be used to expand the boundaries of information systems technology and management.”
When we educate our professionally-oriented undergraduate and master's students to create, use and manage IT solutions, we do it in the context of business scenarios and processes. We get our students to understand how IT applications are interwoven into the fabric of business operations and services, and how IT can be harnessed for transformative change, innovation and value creation. That is why we say to our undergrads, “When we teach you about IT, we also teach you how business does business.”
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