Should we teach Tableau or Power BI or both? In our CIS 3640 class we focus on three major areas: (1) Advanced excel functions, Power Query, Power Pivot , & Data Models, (2) Excel Macros, & (3) Visualization.

Should we teach Tableau or Power BI or both? In our CIS 3640 class we focus on three major areas: (1) Advanced excel functions, Power Query, Power Pivot , & Data Models, (2) Excel Macros, & (3) Visualization. https://lnkd.in/eqiqSMRb &https://lnkd.in/gXYSQKc7. We do our best to go in-depth in all these 3 areas. Based on the feedback received from students, they are interested in learning about all 3 areas & found them helpful...
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In case you want to see what we cover in our AI course, a screenshot is shown in the comments section. We are expanding this list in spring. Our analytics faculty are on top of this AI wave. They have already built an AI course in our business college (CIS 5550) to cover all kinds of AI for business applications.

“American college students are behind in using AI in their studies compared to their foreign counterparts.”American college students lag behind in AI use, expert calls for perspective shift in educationAmerican college students are behind in using AI in their studies compared to their foreign counterparts.wwmt.com Maybe not…This is the whole reason that we created our new AI course — to create AI awareness and skills, and it is designed for...
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Women In Supply Chain:

ISM’s Women’s Supply Management Community: https://lnkd.in/gH_Mr77d. Female Supply Chain students & professionals (the opportunities are endless).: https://lnkd.in/gzFGPTDP. Gender issues in buyer-seller relationships: does gender matter in purchasing? https://lnkd.in/gqSR9dAp.World's Top Companies for Women 2023To create the list, we surveyed approximately 70,000 women working for multinational corporations across 37 countries…www.forbes.com Top 10 Women In Supply Chain: https://lnkd.in/gpj4ArBf.2022 WOMEN IN SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH: https://lnkd.in/g7AwRES8.Study: Women Business Owners Are More Trustworthy Than Men. https://lnkd.in/gAkNrfvp. Women are an Advantage in Supply...
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Wow, the Harvard Business Review (Delgado & Mills) called this right 5 years ago in 2018 (pre covid), well done. Lots of jobs in the supply chain…

Wow, the Harvard Business Review (Delgado & Mills) called this right 5 years ago in 2018 (pre covid), well done. Why are supply chain industries the source of so many high-paying jobs and so much innovation? https://lnkd.in/grs9FUsw. Degree program fuels supply chain and logistics industry’s workforce of the future: https://lnkd.in/g65xNd9M. “Its bachelor’s degree gives students the chance to boost their average annual pay in the field to $87,280, compared with $49,689 for...
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ArcGIS/ESRI: Should SCM students learn this?…”the importance of including location analytics in the standard business school curriculum — especially in the field of supply chain management.”

Should SCM students learn this?…”the importance of including location analytics in the standard business school curriculum — especially in the field of supply chain management.” Bridging the gap between supply chain management practice and curriculum: A location analytics exercise... Access via: https://ow.ly/kMci50PWU1K or see: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dsji.12286 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dsji.12286 Are Supply Chain professionals using ArcGIS Pro technology? Do you think our SCM students should learn this? ArcGIS is a technology that can help companies...
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Which college majors pay off? Is graduate school a money pit?

…“improve the value they provide to both taxpayers and graduates…That means state appropriations should focus more on engineering and business programs, said Shad White, the auditor, and less on liberal arts majors like anthropology, women’s studies and German language and literature.”Can Humanities Survive the Budget Cuts?The state auditor of Mississippi recently released an eight-page report suggesting that the state should invest more in…www.yahoo.com Ranked: Median Student Debt for a U.S....
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Read this to learn about the job saving technology that every business major should have…

Pasted below is a series of blogs that I wrote on how you can learn job saving technology... I recently had a student interview with several companies for supply chain internships.  Most of the companies were Fortune 500 types that placed a premium on business data analytics and the ability to use Excel in some very advanced ways.  We actually require all of our SCM majors to take a Predictive...
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“In ISM’s 2023 Salary Survey, the reported overall average salary remained steady, dipping imperceptibly to $123,523, while the median salary rose 5.8 percent year over year, to $105,795. Except for 2021, average salary has mostly increased over the past five years for both women and men, though the pay gap between men and women persists, now at 25 percent.”

“In ISM’s 2023 Salary Survey, the reported overall average salary remained steady, dipping imperceptibly to $123,523, while the median salary rose 5.8 percent year over year, to $105,795. Except for 2021, average salary has mostly increased over the past five years for both women and men, though the pay gap between men and women persists, now at 25 percent.” https://lnkd.in/gwCWhhcE. Full disclosure, I had to look up the word:Im·per·cep·ti·bly/ˌimpərˈseptəblē/ adverb·  in a way...
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FREE resources for Info on Suppliers, Customers, & Prospects…

FREE resources for Info on Suppliers, Customers, & Prospects. A WMU MBA Alum from our Taiwan Program & working in B2B industrial sales, offered the following list of free websites as a resource for research on competitors, customer supply chains, & prospect contact info. Many of these links may already be in your resource list, but if not, they can be helpful:https://lnkd.in/gV786uxYhttps://www.datanyze.com/https://lnkd.in/gqEUT3BBhttps://lnkd.in/gV2KB5dahttps://www.apollo.io/https://lnkd.in/gqR4ZPst Students, you can use this stuff for class....
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Free: Endless links to supply chain salary data $$$…

Nice SCM salary report summary: https://lnkd.in/dTneTGgw. “Supply chain pros are making an avg of nearly $30K more/yr than the avg American, & are generally happy in their careers (ASCM)...The report found that the avg median supply chain salary is $98,570 (including base & additional compensation), up more than 3% from the previous year’s survey. The average median pay in the U.S. in Q4 of 2022 was equivalent to $56,420 annually, according...
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