CaseIT is an annual international undergraduate business case competition with a strong Management Information Systems (MIS) focus designed to find the best and brightest in strategic IT case analysis. It is a forum where students from various backgrounds of IT and business can showcase their skills in areas such as teamwork, problem solving, and critical thinking to a panel of industry professionals.
Since CaseIT’s inception in 2004, we have offered students from all around the world with the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge that they have obtained in the classroom to real-life business scenarios through strategic IT analysis and presentation. Furthermore, CaseIT is a forum for future business leaders to interact with other students, university faculty, and industry professionals who share a common passion for MIS.
History
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To ensure sustainability and to establish a platform that will enable new and continuous growth in each subsequent year, Nima Sarhangpour and Gordon Swenson standardized internal processes and incorporated the CaseIT Foundation; a non-profit society with the goal of attaining charitable status. Together, they also refined the Preliminary Round to require audio-supplemented submissions.
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To magnify CaseIT’s impact for all stakeholders, 2011 Chair Brian Luong seated the event in first class venues across the board, including actualizing an eight-year vision to host an event at The Wosk Centre for Dialogue’s Asia Pacific Hall.
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To ensure that CaseIT brought only the best and brightest in strategic MIS case analysis, CaseIT 2010 Chair May Yu introduced the first ever Preliminary Round whilst maintaining the standard 24 hour case competition format.
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Steven Chia, with a vision for sustainability, fortified the reputation of CaseIT as an international undergraduate case competition as 16 teams from across the globe converged to Vancouver for a 24 hour case competition.
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Under the guidance of Rey Lim, CaseIT 2008 officially established itself as a global competition by bringing in teams from four continents – North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
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Seeing the progression of the competition, Somnath Suresh pushed the envelope even further by leading CaseIT into an international competition by bringing teams from the United States and Denmark in 2007.
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In 2006, under the leadership of Andrew Kumar, CaseIT reached a national level through the inclusion of schools from all across Canada.
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Drawing from the success of the first competition in 2004, CaseIT 2005 Chair Jenny Chao expanded the competition to incorporate teams from Western Canada.
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Inception, Via Paul Cyr and Zephianah Wong, CaseIT began as a competition between undergraduate teams within Simon Fraser University.
