Vision

• Vision Overview
• The school describes its vision as FUSION Management, which stands for synthesis and convergence. FUSION is the concept that most accurately captures the school’s vision for the creative marriage of business and IT.
• The meaning of FUSION management is multilayered and complex.
  The convergence and integration of management and IT represent the ultimate goal and contain six educational values: Futuristic Universal Seamless Integral Original and Niche
  These are the aspects of education for which the department strives.

• A Vision of Convergence and Convergence
• MIS was born in the 1950s with the advent of the first commercial computers, and the question of how to apply these technologies to business is essentially a field of convergence.
• Recently, convergence and integration have emerged as a new topic in society, but MIS is a pioneer of the so-called convergence and integration, having been experimenting with it for the past 50 years. MIS is also a field that has shown relatively substantial and tangible results compared to other convergence fields, such as biology and cognitive science.
• The school captures this vision of the convergence of business and IT with the concept of FUSION, which is not just an application or convergence but a creative consilience.
• A new space of existence has been created by the intersection of the existing space and the Internet, the new ways of doing business in this space, and the new rules of the game that govern it. MIS exceeds the application of IT as a means of management and creates a new face of management.

• Vision
• As the first school in MIS in Korea, we start with the vision of "experimenting with convergence and integration through the creative combination of management and IT" and capture it with the FUSION concept.
  FUSION is a vessel for the educational values and contents of the school.
  Regarding educational value, the following values are derived: Futuristic, Universal, Seamless, Integral, Original, and Niche. Regarding educational content, six knowledge areas are set: Foundation Knowledge, Ubiquitous Business Technology, Service Science, Information Systems, Organizational Science, and Network Technology.
• The school’s vision is completed by presenting the educational infrastructure and implementation methods required to realize the ideas of FUSION. The educational infrastructure includes industry-academia collaboration, undergraduate-graduate collaboration, lab systems, business incubation systems, and internationalization systems. The implementation methods include coproduction of value, orchestra, mentoring, and visualization of achievements.
• Together, they form the FUSION vision of The School of MIS.
  This vision is the ideological foundation that drives and permeates the school’s mission, strategic plan, and detailed institutional design.

Mission

• Mission Overview
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• The school materializes its vision expressed in this FUSION as a mission, which is the raison d'être of the school for its market and customers, and in the case of a university. It can be set in three areas: education for students, research for the school, and service to cocreate social value.
• A plan must support the mission. Based on the FUSION vision, the school sets goals and develops strategies and plans to achieve the mission in each teaching, research, and service area. Strategies and plans are presented in four main areas: establishing an educational infrastructure, designing educational programs, designing educational implementation systems, and designing educational management systems.
• • First, The mission first describes the vision of FUSION, or convergence and integration, that the school aims for. The vision describes and synthesizes the ideas of convergence and integration contained in FUSION, the educational values and contents accompanying them, and the educational infrastructure and practices required to promote them.
  • Second, it describes the school’s mission to be fulfilled in pursuit of its vision. The mission is a declarative statement of the university’s teaching, research, and service purpose.
  • Third, it describes the goals and long-range plans to implement the department’s vision and mission. The goals and plans are presented in four main areas: educational infrastructure construction, educational program design, educational implementation system design, and educational management system design. Each area outlines the educational goals, performance indicators, and yearly implementation plans derived from the educational vision.

• Mission
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• The figure shows that the school has specific educational, research, and service missions.
• • Our mission is to cultivate the management information professionals required by society by providing quality education.
  • In the research area, our mission is to contribute to the knowledge base of the academic community by producing cutting-edge research.
  • In service areas, the mission is to help solve industry problems and improve management effectiveness.
• While these missions are generic to any university, the School of MIS reformulates them as unique in light of the vision of the convergence and integration of business and IT.
• Regarding education, the convergence of management and IT becomes a key mission element. Similarly, in the case of research, research that integrates management and IT. Finally, in the case of service, solving problems in the field through creative combinations of management and IT become the core elements of the mission.

• Mission of the School
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Education

• Education Value and Content
• FUSION is the original meaning of fusion and convergence and a framework that captures the educational values and contents the school aims for. In this sense, the semantic structure of FUSION is multilayered and complex. First, FUSION contains the six educational values shown in the figure below. These are the aspects of education at the School of MIS.

• • Futuristic(Forward-thinking)

    The School of MIS aims to provide cutting-edge, forward-thinking education. Information and communication technologies are developing unprecedentedly in human history, and the environment and management methods are changing accordingly. The creative combination of management and IT requires that we match the pace of cutting-edge of management and technology.

  • Universal (Global)

    The School of MIS aims to provide global education that can be applied anywhere globally. Regarding educational content, we cultivate global talents who can work in a multicultural and multilingual environment. We also maintain the quality and level of teaching methods that meet global standards.

  • Seamless (Field-centric)

    The School of MIS aims for practical and integrated education, where undergraduate, graduate, and industry are connected without interruption. Currently, university education is disconnected from the industry, and a gap exists between undergraduate and graduate education. The department aims for a field-oriented education system integrating bachelor’s and master’s programs and industry-academic programs to connect undergraduates, graduates, and industry.

  • Integral (Holistic)

    The School of MIS aims to educate the whole person. It seeks to change the trajectory of current university education, emphasizing competition and efficiency to train students in collaboration, team play, and leadership.

  • Original (Creative)

    This School of MIS aims to teach creativity and originality. It cultivates the ability to find and create something new and unique and teaches the principles of abstract thinking and practical application.

  • Niche (Customized)

    The school aims to provide a market-oriented education that is differentiated from others. We strive to provide customized education to meet society’s needs with real-time sensing of society’s educational needs and a flexible response system to provide them.
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• As shown in the figure below, education at the School of MIS is based on the foundation of foundation knowledge. It sets the boundaries of education in the management fields of organization and service science, the IT fields of Information systems and network technology, and the ubiquitous business technology field that converges them.

• • Foundation Knowledge

    The foundation knowledge area is the foundation of MIS education. It includes general education and basic subjects of management and IT.

  • Ubiquitous Business Technology

    It is a genuinely convergent knowledge area that deals with the combination of management and IT. It includes exploring new business models in the environment and implementing them.

  • Service Science

    It is an area of knowledge about services as value created by companies and covers services’ production and consumption system.

  • Information Systems

    This is the area of knowledge about developing and building information systems, and it includes knowledge of programming and computing environments for this purpose.

  • Organizational Science

    As an area of knowledge about organizations that is the foundation of business administration, this course seeks to understand organizational phenomena through macroorganizational and microbehavioral theories.

  • Network Technology

    The network technology knowledge area covers the design, construction, and operation of telecommunication networks, which are the foundation of IT.
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• Structural Aspects of the Training
• The school designs an educational system that implements FUSION, as shown in the figure below. The figure shows an industry-university-academia collaborative education system where the university and industry are connected through problem sharing, joint development of solutions, and exchange of human and material resources as the foundation of FUSION education.
• The school has established a lab system for organic industry-academia collaboration. Labs are spaces where university knowledge and theories meet and collide with industrial problems. Labs are set up in each of the school’s educational areas and are flexibly operated according to the needs of the industrial field. Furthermore, business opportunities for solutions generated in each lab are explored through the business incubation lab.
• Finally, internationalization is also an integral part of the FUSION education system. Internationalization is accomplished from student and industry perspectives to increase the number of domestic students going abroad and the influx of overseas students and establish close links with overseas industries.
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Training in Terms of Execution

• To realize the vision of FUSION education, we must have the structure of the education as described above and the way the education is delivered. How we deliver FUSION education is captured in four principles known as COMP.
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• • Value Co-Production

    The foundation of FUSION education is the belief that education is a system of coproduction of values, not a one-way transmission. This coproduction is a system in which all stakeholders in education—students and professors, universities and industry, society and government—participate. The school endeavors to build educational processes that embody this idea of the coproduction of value in the design of educational processes.

  • Play an Orchestra

    Another idea underlying FUSION education is the belief that teaching is like playing in an orchestra, which is a team effort that requires cooperation and harmony. The coproduction of value cannot be achieved without this orchestral idea. Our school takes this orchestral idea as the basic idea of education.

  • Be a Mentor

    At FUSION, mentoring is a crucial component of our education. Mentoring is a mentor-mentee relationship between professors and students, graduate students, and undergraduates. The coproduction of the values, the orchestra, and the lab system help foster this mentorship.

  • Show Products

    FUSION aims to make the results of education and research tangible and visible. Students create and maintain a portfolio of their work from admission to graduation, and their research results are also organized and stored as concrete knowledge products. Kookmin University embeds and supports visualizing these outputs in the education system.