Management Information

and Control Systems

Prof. Dr. Susann Kowalski

susann.kowalski@fh-koeln.de
Introduction
About me
■ Education
● Professional training in a bank
● Studies of computer sciences at technical
university Dresden
● Doctorate at technical university Chemnitz
● Guest researcher at Fraunhofer
● Economic studies at distance university Hagen

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About me
■ Professional
● Consulting services for software development
projects and project management
● Since 1999 at UAS Cologne
o Business informatics
o Online business
o The development of the internet

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About me
■ International
● Grown up in the eastern part of Germany
● Since 1992 living in the western part of Germany
● Business trips, research stages and teaching
experience in Russia, China, the US, Austria
■ Research
● Cross-cultural aspects and their conclusions for
and influences on making business and managing
international organizations and teams
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Assignment over the whole part of this course
■ According to your numbers, you will form
groups of 5 people each.
■ Within these groups find answers to questions,
I will give you during this week.
■ Hand in an electronic version of your work until
23 February 2011 to
● susann.kowalski@fh-koeln.de
■ I will give you a mark and the list to Prof. De
asap
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First question of the assignment
■ Based on the classes you had so far, you
should be able to discuss the following
statement:
● MIS is the heart of a business and
data/information is the blood.