To the Admissions Committee: I taught the applicant Systems Analysis and supervised their project. I recommend them for your MS in Information Systems.
The applicant rebuilt our fest registration system and watched it still fail — then correctly diagnosed that the problem was never the code but four committees owning slices of a process with no owner of the whole. Recognizing an organizational failure wearing a technical costume is exactly the socio-technical judgment IS demands.
Their best project was non-technical: mapping a department approval workflow and cutting three redundant sign-offs. They find the broken process, not just the broken code. I recommend them strongly.
To the Admissions Committee: I lead ERP implementations and supervised the applicant, a systems analyst, for three years. I support their MS in Information Systems application.
The applicant delivered a four-warehouse inventory rollout cleanly, but the projects I watched fail after go-live failed on change management nobody had planned — the half of implementation my analysts are never trained for. They want exactly that training, which is the honest reason to pursue this degree.
They cut one client's month-end close from nine days to four by redesigning the workflow alongside the system. I recommend them with conviction.
To the Admissions Committee: I supervised the applicant on an IT-adoption research project. I recommend them for your MS in Information Systems.
Studying why a small manufacturer's new ERP went unused, the applicant looked past the software to the incentive structure and found the shop-floor staff had no reason to enter accurate data. That instinct — that technology adoption is a human-systems problem — is precisely what IS research investigates, and they arrived at it empirically.
They document rigorously and reason carefully about causation. I endorse them highly.
To the Admissions Committee: I was the applicant's internal client on an ERP rollout and recommend them for your MS in Information Systems.
Most analysts hand you a configured module and leave before the hard part. The applicant sat with my operations team, translated between what we needed and what the system could do, and flagged the process changes we'd have to make before go-live — advice that saved us from the failure I've seen elsewhere. They live in the translation layer between business and technology.
I recommend them enthusiastically.