EABC Meeting
Agenda
Date:
September 15, 2014
Facilitator:
Mary Texer
Time:
7:30 – 9:30
Location:
Room 2-250 Hanson Hall Conference Room
Attendees
Steve Arsenault – Medtronic
Taryn Bednarek – Club MIS
Tim Boos - Medtronic
Chris Bretoi – 3M
Alex Carlon - Deloitte
Steven Christopher – US Bank
Corrie Fiedler – UMN
Alok Gupta - UMN
Rob Kehr - Securian
Todd Loncorich – General Mills
Mike Mcfarlane – Cargill
Brent Murray - IBM
Tim Olson - UMN
Gautam Ray - UMN
Matt Schmidt - RBC
Kathy Shields – Boston Scientific
Kate Siegrist - Lurie Besikof Lapidus & Company
Jessica Sun - Target
Mary Texer – BlueCross of MN
Paul Wellman – Tennant Company
Agenda and Minutes
Topic
Meeting Start
Help Needed
SAP/ERP
Paul Wellman
Chris Bretoi
Corrie Fiedler
Mary Texer
CoMIS
Tim Boos
Alex Carlon
Rob Kehr
Steve Arsenault
Description
Call the meeting to order at 7:30
Class speakers – roles have been filled
Case competition – more students than ever

Looking for more CoMIS judges

No restriction on numbers from each company – could be 3-4 per
company
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Needs a total of 12-14 judges

Expecting 30+ students
Enterprise Systems Class

Students find the new materials challenging
Set of Exercises

Coming soon. They will be part of SAPs University Alliance. Everyone who
teaches the class has access
Poets and Quants – Corrie was interviewed. She will let us know if her interview
gets published.
SAP:

Dr. Michael Nuerenburg – SAP Alliance – Paul has checked to see if
anything new – waiting to hear back

Alex McNeal – US University Alliance head – also waiting to hear back

Is there a better way for the University to focus – technical training vs.
strategic perspective

Looking at local universities – see what they are doing – are they more
focused vs. enterprise?

Looking at St. Cloud (BASIS and ABAP), St Thomas Accounting (Financial
Information Systems), and Metro State (Multiple ERP Systems including
SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Dynamics)
Accomplished:

Set framework with CoMIS team

Committee goal – to help team manage themselves

Team has board to be accountable to

They can use the board as a needed resource

First formal meeting is this Friday.

Significantly ahead of last year

Goal is to have someone from the Governor’s office at the final round for
1
Who
Mary Texer
Purpose
Kickoff
Corrie Fiedler
Needs
Paul Wellman
Inform
Tim Boos
Inform
EABC Meeting
th
Curriculum
Todd Loncorich
Steven
Christopher
Matt Schmidt
Brent Murray
Diversity
Jessica Sun
Kate Siegrist
Mike Mcfarlane
Kathy Shields
IDSc Overview
the March 28 competition. Mary Texer will pursue
Curriculum:

Looking at other U.S. curriculums

Using Top 10 from US News & World Report

Carlson is in Top 3 MIS programs according to US News & World Report
CSC – looking at opportunities to merge classes and opportunities between MIS
and CSC
CCE – students also take Project Management and other classes from CCE (College
of Continuing Education)
Update:

Send Diversity & Inclusion company contact names to Jessica Sun

Kate – follow up with Business Analytics on their projects. Our Diversity
group’s project wouldn’t fit because they are looking for companies to
pay. However, it may be a project students are interested in doing for
experience – Kate is waiting for response

Mike – also trying to engage with Fright Week (for undecided majors).
Mike connected to get more women on the panel. They didn’t need our
help.

Mike talked with the Cargill recruiting team at Cargill about getting more
women in MIS. Potential – set up table with various companies to talk
about careers for women in MIS
Update:

Start of school year – all classes are full with waiting lists

Programming classes are full too. 160 programming students.

300 majors; 50 non-majors

Alok is requesting four additional faculty

Limiter to adding classes – both labor and rooms are barriers

Waitlists = 20 per class

United Health is looking for 250 new IS people in Midwest

3M also looking for big numbers

MIS – stable numbers over the years; taking students from Supply Chain

Lots of dual majors (Finance / Accounting)

Board could talk to Dean about future needs and company’s pipeline
growth and replacements using metrics. Steve Arsenault would help

Mary Texer will talk with Alok – could invite Dean to a meeting; could
include company CIOs in the same meeting

Background in prep of meeting with Dean – look at limiters by priority
like computers
Action Items from Previous Meetings
Action/Follow Up Item
Assigned to:
CoMIS – if you can help on October 11 (8:30 – 2:30) let
Everyone
Corrie know
Action/Follow Up Item
Action Items Today’s Meeting
Assigned to
Judges needed for October 11 CoMIS
All
Send Diversity & Inclusion company contacts
Talk with Alok about visit from the Dean
All
Mary Texer
2
Todd
Loncorich
Inform
Jessica Sun
Inform
Tim Olson
Update
Target Completion Date
ASAP
Target Completion Date
Due to Corey – need ASAP, but October
1 at the latest
To Jessica Sun by September 26
By next meeting