“Digital disruption” is the situation when new technology emerges and competes against traditional ways of doing business. For example, personal computer emerged and destroyed mainframe computer business; mobile technology (Smartphone and Tablets) emerged and competes against personal computer business.
If you study Information System Management (ISM) you are in the right field to pursue a career in Big Data. While there are many programming languages that are being taught in college such as C++, Java, or Python but many Big Data applications are using another language called “R” since Big Data tools such as Pig/Hive and Hadoop are mostly written in “R” language. This language is designed especially for statistical computing and graphics and widely used among Big data statisticians and data mining specialist for developing statistical software and data analysis. “R” is also focusing on graphical techniques such as linear and nonlinear modeling, time-series analysis, and classification.
Information System Management (ISM) can be defined as the managing of a computer system that processes data of an organization and generates meaningful information that helps managers to make decisions. Before the development of computer, business people had to write every transaction on a piece of paper; rewrote them into a ledger for accounting purpose then transferred to inventory notebooks for record keeping and future purchase. These data had to be processed and analyzed into useful information and documented into reports to managers. Such a manual system often took several weeks and it is easy to make mistakes at different points. However, with computers, everything could be processed, analyzed, and generate reports in a matter of hours.