Our department is one of six disciplinary departments in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at The University of Memphis, which is the only business college in the Memphis area that is fully accredited by the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Our department offers both undergraduate and graduate education in information systems management and includes a vibrant doctoral program and a large masters program with a distinctly international student body reflecting the global orientation of modern information infrastructures and applications.

The department has about seventeen faculty members specializing in various strategic, technical, managerial and organizational aspects of business information systems and with all sharing the dominant "MIS" theoretical innovation management paradigm. These faculty members are intensively engaged in researching both applied and theoretical phenomenon pertaining to the development, implementation and management of new and established information technology innovations in organizations. This research has yielded a constant stream of publications in the top research journals in our field and has also created significant value for our strategic partners in business and industry.

The department is home to a premier research journal, the Association of Computer Machinery's (ACM) Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, for which our Dr. Tom Stafford is the Editor-in-Chief. Additionally, the department has initiated and leads a major interdisciplinary research based Systems Testing Excellence Program at the university's FedEx Institute of Technology. This new program has brought together researchers from information systems, computer science and computer engineering to collaborate on a research program designed to position the university as a leader in the science of systems testing. It also serves as the research and training partner for the Global Testing Center of Excellence of FedEx Corporation.

As a department, we are driven by a strong desire to be strategically "engaged" with all our internal and external stakeholders while nurturing a vibrant intellectual environment that facilitates deep insight and critical discourse of leading-edge ideas pertaining to technology innovation and information management.

Do enjoy your visit with our web pages and please contact me directly at lbrooks@memphis.edu should you require any further information about the department and our programs.

Thank you for visiting with us.

Sincerely,

Lloyd Brooks