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2008 Business - I.T. Case Competition Winners
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Announcement from the Department of Management
Information Systems
[Dr. D'Onofrio, Brian, Jamie, William, Corey, Dean Siamack]
CONGRATULATIONS! to our 2008 CCSU MIS Team
CCSU students Brian Lang, Jamie Doiron, Bill Keene, and
Cory Gill took third prize in a national IT case
competition sponsored by Travelers on November 21, 2008.
All four students are Management Information Systems (MIS)
majors in the School of Business.
“Competition was keen, so we are
proud of our team’s performance,” reports Dr. Marianne
D’Onofrio, professor and chair of MIS at CCSU.
This year’s competition centered on the role of
information technology (IT) professionals in a
hypothetical company, called “X6,”which was described as
“the #1 writer of specialized insurance products.” The
case outlined the current state of X6 and posed
questions on how market trends would affect the future
of the company.
“The students assumed the role of IT strategy
consultants and presented three IT solutions for the CEO
to consider in facilitating X6’s continued growth
trend,” explains Dr. Olga Petkova, professor of MIS
and faculty sponsor for the CCSU team. “The final
presentation for the competition was held at Travelers,
where the CCSU team competed with the University of
Connecticut (who won first prize), Worcester Polytechnic
Institute (second), Syracuse University, and the
University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire. The CCSU team’s
third prize award was accompanied by a $250 check for
the team members.”
The Travelers IT case competition
is designed to give students an opportunity to use their
research skills to tackle real-world IT questions and to
present to and network with representatives from
Travelers.
Travelers is a leading provider of
property casualty insurance for auto, home, and
business. Serving customers globally, it is a Fortune
100 company with 2007 revenues of approximately $26
billion. This is the fourth year Travelers has sponsored
the IT case competition.
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