DEPARTMENT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY for 2020-2025

Mission
The global process of society informatization involves the active use of the intellectual potential of society, the integration of information technology in scientific and industrial activities, the intellectualization of labor. This has led to a rapid increase in demand for the training of unique professionals who would master highly effective information and management technologies.

Our values

• Meet the challenges of the times.
• Generate the changes that the information society needs.
• Train specialists who have modern means of development and operation of high-level information systems and technologies.
• Shape a personality with a sense of national and patriotic duty and respect for historical memory.

Vision

Research and implementation in educational programs of modern information systems and technologies, in particular is the priority and strategic approaches towards development of the department of information systems in management:
• decision-making technologies;
• e-business technologies;
• HR technologies;
• corporate information systems;
• technologies for organizing work with clients;
• cloud technologies;
• modern database and storage management systems;
• business intelligence technologies;
• Data Mining;
• Big Data, etc.

Strategic goals

• Approval of the Department of Information Systems in Management as a structural unit of the Faculty of Economics, which deals with the introduction of modern information systems and technologies in educational programs.
• Comprehensive development of creative potential of scientific and pedagogical staff of the department.
• Providing personal and professional growth of students, the formation of competencies that determine the competitiveness of graduates.

Strategic tasks

In education:
• development of new, improvement of existing curricula and programs;
• participation in the development and implementation of state educational standards;
• deepening the scientific component of master’s programs;
• introduction of plagiarism prevention system in term papers and master’s theses;
• introduction of innovative technologies into the educational process;
• updating / development of educational and methodological complexes in the disciplines of the department;
• updating / development of electronic teaching aids in the main disciplines of the department;
• preparation for post-graduate accreditation in the specialty “Management”;
• preparation for accreditation of bachelors in the specialty “Management” (educational program “Information Systems in Management”);
• preparation for accreditation of masters in the specialty “Computer Science” (educational program “Consolidated Information”);
• internship of scientific and pedagogical staff, their professional development;
• highly effective integration of research and teaching activities of scientific and pedagogical staff of the department;
• cooperation in the direction of adopting the experience of educational and methodical work with foreign universities;
• publication of textbooks, manuals, texts of lectures, workshops, guidelines;
• management of students’ internships.

In science:
research in the field of socio-economic sciences and information systems and technologies (the research sphere “Mathematical models and information technology in the management of socio-economic processes”);
• formation and development of scientific and pedagogical potential of the department (publication of monographs; printing of articles in publications indexed in international scientometric databases, including Scopus and Web of Science; printing of articles in professional journals; presentation of scientific reports at conferences, including membership in the editorial board of scientific journals “Visnyk of Lviv National University” economic series and “Formation of market economy of Ukraine”, membership in specialized scientific councils for the defense of dissertations for the degree of candidate and doctor of economics D 35.051.01 and D 35.051.22; preparation of expert opinions on dissertations, responses to dissertation abstracts, etc.);
• development of scientific and technical cooperation between the department and IT companies;
• organization of joint research of teachers and graduate students of the department with scientists from other countries;
• monitoring and increasing the impact of scientific and pedagogical staff of the department – the Hirsch index;
• training of scientific personnel;
• introduction of scientific results into the educational process;
• involvement of students in scientific activities of various forms and types.

In career guidance and organizational areas:
• fostering in young people a sense of national and patriotic duty and respect for historical memory;
• establishing partnerships with leading IT companies and other higher education institutions in order to pass the internship of teachers;
• establishing partnerships with leading IT companies for free transfer of licensed software to the university;
• systematic updating of specialized software that is freely distributed;
• establishing partnerships with leading IT companies to organize student internships;
• establishing partnerships with leading IT companies to provide students with free access to cloud technologies;
• involvement of employees of leading IT companies in the educational process;
• establishing partnerships with graduates of the department to share professional experience;
• career guidance for bachelor’s and school graduates;
• work to promote the employment of graduates;
• orientation of the best master’s graduates to postgraduate studies;
• involvement of employees of the department and students in the decision-making process;
• encouraging the teaching staff of the department to improve their knowledge of foreign languages;
• stimulating the teaching staff of the department to increase their professional rating;
• organization of the International scientific-practical conference “Problems of information economy in Ukraine”.