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Center for Management Information Systems Case Competition 2012 Finalists
CMIS Case Competition is an educational event which offers Texas A&M University students an opportunity to sharpen their analytical, presentation, and teamwork skills by working with a team to present a case solution to corporate representatives. I participated with two of my friends, and together we formed "Case Closed," where we made it to the final round for our case analysis and presentation and won an academic scholarship.
At the bottom of the page you will find our slideshow presentation.
At the bottom of the page you will find our slideshow presentation.
(Update: In Fall 2013, I competed in the CMIS Case Competition with my two teammates once again, and we won 1st Place! It was a true testament for learning how to work and solve problems together. We were honored and humbled to have come so far, and the victory was very sweet, indeed.)
In the fall of 2012, I had the opportunity to participate in a Case Competition through Texas A&M’s Center for Management Information Systems. It was filled with a week of devoting my group’s time and efforts to the success of preparing a case to present to corporate judges.
Weeks prior, I decided to join a group with two of my friends who I did not know well in the academic setting. I think it was an excellent choice, because it stretched us to learn more about each other through the very long week, and at the end of the day as both friends and colleagues, we were reminded of our ultimate goal, which was for our group to succeed.
The moment we were given the case, we came together to read the case together and discuss what it meant to us. The case covered a rural hospital with a prescription system entirely based on paper, who was wondering how we could help them integrate an electronic database system to mitigate risk. We compiled our initial thoughts on the case, which led to sharing our experiences and vision for where we saw the case going. We were able to step into roles and establish a game plan to prepare our case for the competition. My two teammates were new Management Information Systems majors, but one had a systematic engineering background and the other had a lot of technical experience, each contributing powerful insight and direction for where they saw the pharmacy system going. I brought my experience from my MIS courses that gave us a concrete way to communicate how we were going to make a change.
To present the best solution and to solve the hospital's problem, we had to come together to prioritize a problem and a goal: patients' lives were at risk and our goal was to save lives. We worked together to ultimately come up with the best solution and to convince the judges that we really did know what we were talking about - and we did! We were chosen as Finalists in the competition and received an academic scholarship for our solution and presentation. It was a great reward and testified to the importance of being able to see a big problem, understand fine details, and implement a framework to solve a solution. I am so proud of the work we achieved and I am motivated to solve problems first-hand in the business world one day.
Weeks prior, I decided to join a group with two of my friends who I did not know well in the academic setting. I think it was an excellent choice, because it stretched us to learn more about each other through the very long week, and at the end of the day as both friends and colleagues, we were reminded of our ultimate goal, which was for our group to succeed.
The moment we were given the case, we came together to read the case together and discuss what it meant to us. The case covered a rural hospital with a prescription system entirely based on paper, who was wondering how we could help them integrate an electronic database system to mitigate risk. We compiled our initial thoughts on the case, which led to sharing our experiences and vision for where we saw the case going. We were able to step into roles and establish a game plan to prepare our case for the competition. My two teammates were new Management Information Systems majors, but one had a systematic engineering background and the other had a lot of technical experience, each contributing powerful insight and direction for where they saw the pharmacy system going. I brought my experience from my MIS courses that gave us a concrete way to communicate how we were going to make a change.
To present the best solution and to solve the hospital's problem, we had to come together to prioritize a problem and a goal: patients' lives were at risk and our goal was to save lives. We worked together to ultimately come up with the best solution and to convince the judges that we really did know what we were talking about - and we did! We were chosen as Finalists in the competition and received an academic scholarship for our solution and presentation. It was a great reward and testified to the importance of being able to see a big problem, understand fine details, and implement a framework to solve a solution. I am so proud of the work we achieved and I am motivated to solve problems first-hand in the business world one day.