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Lacek, David Anthony

Assistant Teaching Professor

Positions

Research

keywords

  • Blockchain and ERP systems, Business Models, Design Thinking

Teaching

courses taught

  • BAIM 3230 - Enterprise Integration Technologies
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2022
    We grasp how to operate a contemporary business. Learn how firms committed to sustainability achieve top-line growth, increase business revenue, alter business operations, and unleash efficiency with automated business processes. Examine operational excellence inside Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) utilizing proven industry-specific business processes (Lines of Business) and technologies such as AI, ML, and IoT to increase efficiency and decision-making. Customer relationships (CRM) and Human Capital (HCM) are input sources for ERP supplementing intelligent business decisions. Formerly BAIM 3230.
  • BAIM 4220 - Enterprise Integration Technologies
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    We grasp how to operate a contemporary business. Learn how firms committed to sustainability achieve top-line growth, increase business revenue, alter business operations, and unleash efficiency with automated business processes. Examine operational excellence inside Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) utilizing proven industry-specific business processes (Lines of Business) and technologies such as AI, ML, and IoT to increase efficiency and decision-making. Customer relationships (CRM) and Human Capital (HCM) are input sources for ERP supplementing intelligent business decisions. Formerly BAIM 3230.
  • BCOR 2202 - Principles of Organizational Behavior
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022
    Focuses on the fundamentals of management from an organizational behavior perspective. Students will learn the basic concepts and best practices in the behavioral sciences that can improve their abilities to lead and manage in organizations. Frameworks for individual, team, and organizational behavior are presented and discussed. Topics include personality traits, culture, decision making, teams, planning, motivation, leadership, and well-being. A semester-long team project provides practice in teamwork and in applying the course concepts.
  • BCOR 2205 - Introduction to Information Management and Analytics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020
    Focuses on the fundamentals of managing information in a data driven business environment. Students will learn the basic concepts and best practices in Information Management that can improve their abilities to lead and manage in organizations. The class teaches cutting-edge tools and approaches to the analysis of data, including "big data," for effective decision-making.It creates data connoisseurs through hands-on exposure to supervised machine learning. Application areas covered include human resources, marketing, finance, and supply chain. At the end of class, all students should be able to formulate common business problems in terms addressable through machine learning, and use automated machine learning tools to conduct the analysis and present deep insights to business leaders. Course requirements: clickers. Credit not granted for this course and BCOR 2500.
  • MBAC 6001 - Foundations of Teamwork
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2022
    Focuses on teamwork effectiveness and collaboration. Students will understand what affects team outcomes, how to maximize a team�s effectiveness and how to create a company environment that fosters collaboration and teamwork as they develop their own teamwork skills while learning to develop the skills of their employees' and colleagues'.
  • MGMT 4140 - Project Management
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
    Introduces multidisciplinary project management concepts, skills, and tools, including the relationship between project definition, organization, planning, scheduling, resource and risk management, control, costing and performance. Presents both qualitative and quantitative tools for better project management.
  • MGMT 4220 - Business Technologies
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018
    Covers ERP (enterprise resource planning) technologies which facilitate business processes within firms in three modules. The first will involve understanding the basics of technologies in organization. The second module will introduce OpenERP, an open-source ERP system for small-medium sized businesses. The final module is an introduction to SAP, the most widely used ERP system for large organizations. Formerly MGMT 4220.