Information Systems

Looking back over the class, what I believe will make the biggest difference in my professional career relates to change management.  As managers and leaders of companies in our future, we will be assigned the tough task of changing organizations to foster growth, creativity, and innovations.  We won't be hired to simply keep things on an even keel, and settle for less than the situations we walk into.  We will be asked to exhibit an entrepreneurial nature that spurs on our organizations to new heights.  And this is what change management is about.  It's never easy to get people to change, it's human nature that we get ourselves stuck into a routine, and many times people start to say 'that's not how things are done around here'.  Most of the people in organizations don't understand why things should change and that we always want improvement and to be better at what we do, especially in organizations.  I for one plan on using what we learned in class in my career and hopefully create change in meaningful ways.  These concepts and many other things that I didn't know before are the reasons I decided to come back for graduate school and so far, I'm really glad that I did.