TY - JOUR
T1 - The current state of Business Intelligence in academia
AU - Wixom, Barbara
AU - Ariyachandra, Thilini
AU - Goul, Kenneth
AU - Gray, Paul
AU - Kulkarni, Uday
AU - Phillips-Wren, Gloria
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Current trends suggest that academia may be behind the curve in delivering effective Business Intelligence programs and course offerings to students. In December 2009 and 2010, the AIS Special Interest Group on Decision Support, Knowledge and Data Management Systems (SIGDSS) and the Teradata University Network (TUN) cosponsored the Business Intelligence Congresses and conducted surveys to improve the understanding of the state of BI in academia. This panel report describes the key findings and best practices that were identified. The article also serves as a "call to action" for universities regarding the need to close a widening gap between the BI skills of university graduates in Information Systems and other fields and BI market needs. The IS field is well positioned to be the leader in creating the next generation BI workforce. To do so, it is important for IS to begin moving on this opportunity now. We believe the necessary first step is for BI and IS leaders to advance the BI curriculum.
AB - Current trends suggest that academia may be behind the curve in delivering effective Business Intelligence programs and course offerings to students. In December 2009 and 2010, the AIS Special Interest Group on Decision Support, Knowledge and Data Management Systems (SIGDSS) and the Teradata University Network (TUN) cosponsored the Business Intelligence Congresses and conducted surveys to improve the understanding of the state of BI in academia. This panel report describes the key findings and best practices that were identified. The article also serves as a "call to action" for universities regarding the need to close a widening gap between the BI skills of university graduates in Information Systems and other fields and BI market needs. The IS field is well positioned to be the leader in creating the next generation BI workforce. To do so, it is important for IS to begin moving on this opportunity now. We believe the necessary first step is for BI and IS leaders to advance the BI curriculum.
KW - Business intelligence
KW - Curriculum development
KW - Decision support systems
KW - IS field
KW - Pedagogy
KW - Survey
KW - Teaching
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U2 - 10.17705/1cais.02916
DO - 10.17705/1cais.02916
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:81055146936
SN - 1529-3181
VL - 29
SP - 299
EP - 312
JO - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
JF - Communications of the Association for Information Systems
IS - 1
ER -