Emphasis is placed on the systems approach which stresses the concepts, techniques and policies essential for the economical and effective design, operations and control of manpower, facilities, materials, capital and informational inputs of organizations. Simulation and Animation of Production Operations, Optimized Production Techniques, Kanban Systems, Japanese Productivity Techniques. Decision Support Systems. The Information Systems Department administers an option in Management Information Systems. This option prepares students for careers in Management Information Systems in business, education, and government.
Emphasis is on systems, information analysis and resources.
Fundamentals of business information systems, computer hardware, system and application software, telecommunications and decision support systems are included to provide the student a solid foundation in this rapidly changing field. The curriculum is based on both the DPMA and ACM models. The objective of the international business option is to prepare students for the increasingly competitive and interdependent international business world with which they must cope. There is great and growing need for American business school graduates to be better informed about how to compete and do business outside the U. S. as well as in the U. S. market where much of their competition is from foreign firms. They need at least some familiarity with a language other than English as well as with cultural diversity and world geography.