Texas A&M wins IT regional
By: Travis Lawson
Issue date: 11/25/09 Section: News
Texas A&M University graduate students won the regional "International Case Competition on the Strategic Value of I.T. Management" and will advance to world finals in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The competition combines different technology and business problems that each team must research and solve.
The graduate team, which consists of Lakshminarayanan Subramanian and Beth Lipton for management information systems studies and Bedanta Talukdar for industrial engineering studies, won the Case Competition at the Mays Business School in October.
The victory made the team eligible to compete in the Southwest regional in Tuscan, Arizona. The team secured another win in Tucson placing them among 11 other teams from all over the world that will compete in the finals.
"We secured the first place and got excellent feedback from the panel of judges on our presentation and solution," Subramanian said.
The team beat the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Arizona, and Oklahoma University in Arizona to claim the regional victory. Each team is presented with a case to solve and then a twist at the end.
"It was an extremely challenging experience with respect to the amount of research we had to do in the limited time span," Subramanian said.
The Aggie team said it was a joy to be the group representing the University and were excited they gave a good showing.
"We felt honored to represent Texas A&M in a regional competition and win it," Subramanian said. "We are very happy to give something back to the school which has done so much for us."
Talukdar said she couldn't wait to face the 11 other teams at the finals in May. Like Subramanian, she said she also felt honored to give back to Aggieland.
"The honor of representing Texas A&M in the regional round at Arizona was something I will cherish," Talukdar said. "I am really excited about representing the University in the global finals at Las Vegas and we hope to do well there."
Lipton said the competing teams were made up of students with a lot more experience than them so having success was uplifting.
"A lot of the other teams were made up of MBA students so we were very proud to be victorious over them," Lipton said. "The three of us together, we all kind of keep each other in balance. I think we make a really good team."
The competition combines different technology and business problems that each team must research and solve.
The graduate team, which consists of Lakshminarayanan Subramanian and Beth Lipton for management information systems studies and Bedanta Talukdar for industrial engineering studies, won the Case Competition at the Mays Business School in October.
The victory made the team eligible to compete in the Southwest regional in Tuscan, Arizona. The team secured another win in Tucson placing them among 11 other teams from all over the world that will compete in the finals.
"We secured the first place and got excellent feedback from the panel of judges on our presentation and solution," Subramanian said.
The team beat the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Arizona, and Oklahoma University in Arizona to claim the regional victory. Each team is presented with a case to solve and then a twist at the end.
"It was an extremely challenging experience with respect to the amount of research we had to do in the limited time span," Subramanian said.
The Aggie team said it was a joy to be the group representing the University and were excited they gave a good showing.
"We felt honored to represent Texas A&M in a regional competition and win it," Subramanian said. "We are very happy to give something back to the school which has done so much for us."
Talukdar said she couldn't wait to face the 11 other teams at the finals in May. Like Subramanian, she said she also felt honored to give back to Aggieland.
"The honor of representing Texas A&M in the regional round at Arizona was something I will cherish," Talukdar said. "I am really excited about representing the University in the global finals at Las Vegas and we hope to do well there."
Lipton said the competing teams were made up of students with a lot more experience than them so having success was uplifting.
"A lot of the other teams were made up of MBA students so we were very proud to be victorious over them," Lipton said. "The three of us together, we all kind of keep each other in balance. I think we make a really good team."
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