Academic Departments
Information, risk, and operations management
McCombs' Information, Risk, and Operations Management (IROM) department empowers students and professionals to create organizational systems and processes that advance the future of business.
Why study IROM?
Information, Risk, and Operations Management is a field that focuses on how organizations use information and technology to make smart decisions, manage risks, and optimize their operations. It combines knowledge of business processes, data analysis, and technology to help companies run more efficiently and handle challenges like security threats or market uncertainties. McCombs’ IROM department focuses on four key disciplines that equip students with the problem solving and leadership skills to navigate a rapidly changing business world.
Decision Science
Learn how to understand and optimize organizational decision-making processes to get the best possible outcomes.
Operations Management
Learn to create and refine processes that create maximum organizational efficiency across industries.
Information Management
Learn best practices on how to collect and share information securely with organizational decision makers.
Statistics
Learn how to collect, analyze, and present data to evaluate and optimize business performance.
Programs of Study
Undergraduate Programs
The IROM department's undergraduate programs are among the most highly ranked in the country. We offer a variety of a majors and minors for BBA students, including business analytics, management information systems, science and technology management, and supply chain management.
Graduate Programs
The IROM department offers STEM-designated Master's programs that enable students to build innovative business solutions.
IROM Ph.D.
The Texas McCombs doctoral program in IROM focuses on training future researchers in decision science, information systems, operations management, and statistics. Students have significant flexibility to design their pathway and select their doctoral committee members from a broad interdisciplinary spectrum.
Department news
AI Can Open Up Beds in the ICU
Indranil Bardhan's research shows how artificial intelligence can help hospitals improve scheduling for staff and patients by analyzing factors that affect a patient’s length of stay
Picking the Right Doctor? AI Could Help
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky's machine learning algorithm can evaluate whether doctors, engineers, and other experts are making good decisions
Digital Labels Can Help Grocers Waste Less Food
According to research by Ioannis Stamatopoulos, consumers, stores, and the environment benefit when electronic tags allow speedy price changes
Faculty and Research
IROM faculty set the bar high for teaching and research, and their work can be seen in a variety of well-known publications. Their contributions to the field have helped organizations across industries provide better outcomes for customers, manufacturers, medical patients, service providers, and more.
Affiliated Centers & Initiatives
Center for Analytics and Transformative Technologies
The Center for Analytics and Transformative Technologies (CATT) serves as a forum to initiate dialogue and exchange ideas between academia and industry, foster collaborations on research, and develop applied projects.
Center for Business, Technology, and Law
Created in 1987, the objective of the Center for Business, Technology, and Law is to conduct and facilitate research into problems arising at the point of intersection between managerial decision making and legal or regulatory constraints.
Center for Risk Management and Insurance
The mission of the Center for Risk Management and Insurance is to be the premier independent research resource for public policy decision makers within the state of Texas concerning issues related to risk and its analysis and management and for insurance research in general.
Supply Chain Management Center
The Supply Chain Management Center (SMC) brings together executives from leading corporations with Texas faculty and students to identify, document, research, develop and disseminate best practices in Supply Chain Management.
Contact Us
The information, risk, and operations management office is located in CBA 5.202 in the main McCombs Building (2110 Speedway) and is open 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday - Friday. Call 512-471-3322 or send an email below.