The Singapore Management University (SMU) has relocated to our new City Campus at Bras Basah. Our sprawling urban campus in the heart of the city brings a youthful vibrancy and vitality to the historic and culturally rich Bras Basah District. With 6 buildings in the midst of lush greenery, SMU is designed for dynamic learning and intellectual inquiry. The sprawling urban campus, carefully integrated into the cityscape, took five years of planning and construction. SMU will also add new colour and texture to the area with activities and events, exhibitions and a myriad of activities hosted on our campus for the enjoyment of all.

Professor Howard Hunter, President, SMU said, “… With SMU and other educational institutions coming back into the city, new life is being injected into the area. ….The landscape of the city is set to undergo a metamorphosis, of sobriety to colour and stateliness to excitement. SMU is proud to set our home here and honoured to be an integral part henceforth of this very special district.”

The mission of SMU is to generate leading edge research with global impact as well as to produce broad-based, creative and entrepreneurial leaders for the knowledge-based economy. The School of Information Systems (SIS) has been created to extend SMU's mission into the realm of business-focused information technology. The SIS education and research environment benefits from the strong partnership with Carnegie Mellon, as well as from the existing collaboration between the Wharton School and the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business.

Said Practice Professor Steven Miller, Dean, SIS, “...Through our SIS education and research efforts, we aspire to make significant contributions to business process innovation through the architecture, design and deployment of information systems in enterprise settings. We believe that effective design and use of business IT solutions is the result of finding the appropriate balance between business process and user needs, information technology capability, economic value creation, cost containment and business and organisational risk management. We want our students to be competent in analyzing all of these dimensions of an IT enabled business solution, in articulating these trade-offs, and in making, executing and testing their design related decisions."

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