INTEGRATIVE THINKING AND YOUR CAREER IN...
Information Technology and Telecommunications

In the competitive world of business education, Rotman has one key advantage that no other school can match: an innovative approach built on Integrative Thinking.

Our students receive a solid grounding in all the functional areas of business: Finance, Strategic Management, Operations Management, etc. But they also learn how to think beyond them to consider the big picture, approaching each challenge with creativity, a willingness to consider multiple perspectives, and the ability to build new and better models. It’s a groundbreaking approach that can help you shape your business — and the world— for the better.

Currently, more than 600 Rotman alumni work in the Information Technology and Telecommunications industry. Meet some recent graduates who are putting Integrative Thinking to work in this arena.

David Garcia (MBA), Workforce Forecasting Manager, Telus: “Difficult problems have difficult solutions. The only way to reach optimal results in complex environments is to deal with as many variables as possible. This approach challenges old paradigms such as ‘accept unavoidable trade-offs’ and ‘divide and conquer’. Integrative Thinking prepares you to avoid simplifications and compromised solutions and to reach further than conventional thinking ever could.”

Yale Holder (MBA), President and Founder, mycellmyterms.com: “The process that led to the design and development of mycellmyterms.com (which I co-founded) was driven by Integrative Thinking. We simply refuse to accept that a good cell phone deal for a customer means the destruction of earnings for the cell phone carrier. We fundamentally believe that by significantly reducing the costs to acquire and retain clients through online acquisition and retention strategies, a happy medium between customer needs and carrier profitability is possible. In essence, our solution is the creative result of two opposable mind sets.”

IT and Telecom firms that have recruited at Rotman in the past few years include:

• Visit the websites for our student-run Business and Technology Group and Rotman Engineers in Management.
• Read the MBA Employment & Salary Report, prepared annually by our Corporate Connections Centre.
• Review some of our elective courses in this area: Commercializing Technological Innovations, Technology Strategy, Managing Innovation, and Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property 
• Review our Integrative Thinking courses, compulsory and elective.