EABC Meeting
Agenda
Date:
February 4, 2013
Time:
Facilitator:
Mike Mcfarlane
Location:
7:30 – 9:00 a.m. Central time
Room 2-207 (outside Executive Training Center), Carlson
School of Business
Attendees
Tim Boos
Steve Arsenault
Chris Bretoi
Alex Carlon
John Curtin
Patrick Davitt
Corrie Fiedler
Alok Gupta
Mike Kirst
Todd Loncorich
Craig Martin
Mike Mcfarlane
Brent Murray
Tim Olson
Gautam Ray
Andrew Fuller
Matt Schmidt
Kathy Shields
Kate Siegrist
Jessica Sun
Mary Texer
Paul Wellman
Ann Herzog-Olson, Guest
Agenda and Minutes
Topic
Meeting
Start
Reports
Description
Mike Mcfarlane called the meeting to order at 7:30, took roll
and introduced the agenda
Case Competition
• Currently completed – 5 sponsors, site visits, location and
awards. Now working on logistics
• Three schools confirmed – U of Arizona, U of Connecticut,
U of Indiana. More to come – Alok had 7 schools say yes.
Maximum number of schools = 16
• Completed a trial case two weeks ago with the Vancouver
and Singapore teams. Great judging. Vancouver team
leaves in two days for competition this weekend.
• March 9 – case practice. Need volunteers to judge. This will
be a practice session for the Singapore and CoMIS
competitions
• CoMiS consists of the alternates to Vancouver and
Singapore plus a ”quarterback” selected by Corrie
• CoMIS could use volunteers to help with registration, etc.
Dates are Thursday, April 4 through Saturday, April 6
• Alok – case study for CoMIS is nearly ready. Will be final by
the end of February
• Travelers Insurance holds a case competition in the fall to
which they invite schools to participate. This year our
team came in first. Both the Vancouver and Singapore
teams participate.
Who
Mike
Mcfarlane
Tim Olson and
Corrie Fiedler
Alex Carlon
Purpose
Time
Review
7:30 7:35
Report
7:35 – 8:50
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EABC Meeting
Reports
Curriculum / SAP
• The Spring session of Class 3014 is full with a waiting list
• Corrie – good feedback from the fall class. Went well:
o SAP has a difficult user interface. Students were
set up to know what to expect – that helped
o Syllabus
• Corrie – what can be improved
o Assumed student had the supply chain knowledge
– had to do remedial lectures
o Optimization from section to section (was first
time teaching the class)
• Question: are any other classes teaching the end-to-end
processes? Answer – Intro To Operations
• Comment: should this be a requirement for all MIS majors?
• SAP University Alliance – growing adoption in schools
o Carlson
o Metro State
o St Cloud
o Valley City State University – ND
o Eau Claire
• SAP simulations are available to Alliance Members
o 9 total simulations
o 3 are free
o 6 advanced simulations require payment ($40 per
student or $160 per team)
• Corrie to evaluate the simulations for spring semester.
Decision not yet made.
• Alok – planning on offering an Advanced course next fall
• Advanced course will include:
o Currently there is too much in the first course
(offload some to the advanced course)
o Course will go through the approval process in
February
o Simulation and exercises will be part of the course
o Want to also integrate simulation into other
classes, where applicable
o Want holistic view for students
• Sub-team will meet for extended breakfast in February to
discuss enterprise systems and IT trends in the
marketplace – volunteers welcome
Paul Wellman
Report
7:50 – 8:05
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EABC Meeting
Reports
Update
Guest
Continuing Education
• If Alok has needs, the committee is available to provide
feedback
• Business Analytics and Big Data– received overwhelming
positive feedback
• Alok needs to submit the final proposal, financial plan and
implementation plan for a full-time Master’s program by
mid-March
• Complete program would be run in one year – start in the
summer and ending the following spring
• Not possible to have it ready for the summer of 2013; will
start in 2014
• Part-time program would start within a year after the 2014
start
• Question – could the program run on Friday / Saturday so
business people could attend. Answer – not to start. Parttime will follow the traditional program. Business people
could have conflict of interest on projects
• Question – what committee help is needed as the March
date gets closer? Answer – appreciate the help – especially
where there is business decision making; will ask for more
feedback. When approved, will need help with business
projects, expertise and speakers. This help needed will
start later in the semester
Program Status
• Program size—continues to be a good challenge.
• 251 students – an increase of 10% over fall
o 205 majors
o 45 minors
• Every MIS class is full
• Question – why can’t the increase be sustainable? Answer:
the Dean hasn’t determined that the increase isn’t
students taking more classes vs. students moving from
other majors. The Dean’s office is new and indicates this
could be a temporary variance. They don’t have the
mechanisms in place to show where the numbers are
coming from. Also can’t quantify how much demand is
there.
• Hiring – not easy to find skills needed to deliver what they
want with the quality needed. These logistics will be
eventually worked out. Currently recruiting two facility
members for this year
• Question – has Carlson growth been at the same level as
the MIS program? Answer – stabilized about two years ago
at 2,300 – 2,400. MIS outpaces Carlson.
• Alok appreciates all the feedback. He is interfacing with all
aspects of Carlson
• Question – what is the MBA growth? Answer: MBA is by
concentration, not tracked. Enrollment – almost all classes
are full – huge waiting list for Analytics.
Ann Herzog-Olson, Director, Corporate and Foundation
Relations, Carlson School.
• Available to raise funds
• Will visit businesses with the Dean
• Help companies become more engaged with Carlson
Todd
Loncorich
Report
8:05 – 8:15
Alok Gupta
Inform
8:15 – 8:25
Ann HerzogOlson
Inform
8:25 – 8:30
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EABC Meeting
Close
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Next meeting is April 1
Mike
Mcfarlane
Close
8:30
Action Items from Prior Meetings – Are they complete?
Action/Follow Up Item
Assigned to
Target Completion Date
Are there additional companies who can host a
Tim added the United Health Group
tour / presentation on April 4 as part of CoMIS? All
and Travelers to the list; completed
Get back to Tim Olson
Send presentation to the EABC board
Tim Olson
Completed
Action Items from Today’s Meeting
Action/Follow Up Item
Assigned to:
Case Practice – could use more judges for the
Contact: Corrie Fiedler
March 9 date
Contact: Tim Olson or Corrie
CoMIS could use volunteers for registration, etc.
Fielder
Volunteers welcome for extended breakfast
Contact Paul Wellman
meeting to discuss enterprise systems and IT
trends in the marketplace
For the April 1 meeting, all committees should
come prepared to discuss:
o What went well?
o What should be changed?
All Committees
o Is the current EABC structure working?
o For the faculty members on the
committees – is the committee
providing what you need
Target Completion Date
By March 1
Before April 4
ASAP. Breakfast will be in February
April 1 meeting
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