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IT Career Fair on October 9, 2013

IBIT IT Career FairThe Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) announces the Fox IT Career Fair on October 09, 2013, 11am-3pm, Alter Hall. Interact with top employers who are specifically interested in recruiting Fox MIS, ITACS, ITM, Digital Marketing, and ITIE students (majors and minors, grad and undergrad).

Merck, Lockheed Martin, AstraZeneca, Cigna, Dow, and QVC are attending as well as many others to recruit for full-time and internship positions. See http://ibit.temple.edu/careerfair for a complete list of employers. These employers are coming because they have made a commitment to your program and major, and to the Fox Department of Management Information Systems.

To participate in this career fair you will need:

  1. To be CSPD’d
  2. An approved eportfolio listed on the Fox MIS Community eportfolio site at: http://community.mis.temple.edu/eportfolios/
  3. Completed registration on http://ibit.temple.edu/careerfair/about/attendance-and-registration/. The deadline is October 2, 2013.

In order to have an approved eportfolio you must submit it to the above site for approval. Please be sure to read all of the points on the samples and resources page before submitting your eportfolio.

Each student that registers by the deadline will receive free special business cards to hand out to employers at the Fox IT Career Fair. These business cards will list your name, major, email address and will have a QR code to scan and easily access your eportfolio.

Digital badges recognize the professional achievements of MIS students

FOX MIS Grand MasterThe Community platform introduces digital badges to recognize the professional achievements of FOX MIS students. To be awarded a badge, students will add a custom developed widget to their eportfolio. Once the widget is added, the student will automatically receive the appropriate badge based on their professional development points.  The badge levels are:

  • Grand Master (2000 plus): The pinnacle of professional readiness. Grand Master’s have extensive experience in engaging with industry, have demonstrated extensive leadership and communication skills, and are likely to take on leadership roles in the future.
  • Master (1500 plus): The master of professional achievement. Master’s have gone above and beyond all the basic requirements and excelled in every category of professional development, career knowledge, networking and are expected to be stars in their careers.
  • Candidate (1000 plus): The complete well-rounded student. Candidates have excelled in meeting all the department’s requirements for professional development. They are ready for the workplace!
  • Apprentice (700 plus): Apprentices have started investing in their professional development early and are well on track to meet the department’s requirements for professional achievement.

The badges will go into full use at the start of the Fall 2013 term. To see examples, visit: http://community.mis.temple.edu/daviddupell/ or http://community.mis.temple.edu/joshwise/

Read the article by Peter Key of the Philadelphia Business Journal on the MIS Community platform!

MIS awards honor students, faculty, and staff

FOX IT Awards 2013

The Thirteenth Annual FOX IT awards on April 16, 2013 honored the following students, faculty and staff.

MIS STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Ryan Oliveira

MIS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given to graduating MIS students for academic excellence.
Iris Kapo
Elias Hessler

MIS RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in research.
Paul Pavlou

MIS FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Richard Flanagan

MIS TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
David Schuff

MIS ADJUNCT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
Dina Lichtman

MIS ADMINISTRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given annually to a MIS or IBIT administrative employee for outstanding performance.
Joseph Allegra

MIS ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to an administrator who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Cynthia Smith

IBIT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
Jennifer O’Malley

NIRAJ AND CARA PATEL SCHOLARSHIP
Rachael Jill Voluck

JOHN H. SHAIN SCHOLARSHIP
Paula L. Kozak

ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AIS) AWARDS

AIS Outstanding Officer
Czarina Agravante

AIS Outstanding Member
Gabrielle Lopez

 

Yoo, Wattal, and Zhang receive $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics

Organizational GeneticsProfessors Youngjin Yoo, Sunil Wattal, Bin Zhang, and Temple Biology Professor Rob Kulathinal were awarded a $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics. This is the third NSF grant the researchers have received, since a grant from French research foundation CIGREF. In total, the research has received about $675,000 in grant funding. The organizational genetics project is titled “The structure and dynamics of generative innovations: An organizational genetics approach.”

The project will focus on how organizational ecosystems are built and evolve over time. For example, success and failure of digital products, such as smartphones, is determined by the size and scope of various apps that are built by third-party developers in the ecosystem.

Learn more…

Professor Pavlou explains how swift guanxi can facilitate online transactions

Paul PavlouProfessor Paul Pavlou explains that “guanxi” is “a close and pervasive interpersonal relationship” which has received little attention in e-commerce theory and practice, perhaps due to impersonal nature of online markets that assume that no interpersonal relationships exist or are necessary for online transactions to take place. He proposes that computer-mediated-communication (CMC) technologies can mimic traditional interactive face-to-face communications and enable a form of guanxi in online contexts, what he and his colleagues call in this research swift guanxi – consumer’s perception of a swiftly-formed interpersonal relationship with a seller that consists of mutual understanding, reciprocal favors, and relationship harmony.

In the research, they develop a model that explains how a set of CMC technologies (instant messaging, message box, feedback system) facilitate repeat transactions with sellers by building swift guanxi by mimicking interactivity and presence with sellers. Longitudinal data from 338 buyers in TaoBao (www.taobao.com), China’s leading online marketplace show that the effective use of CMC tools helps build swift guanxi by enhancing the consumer’s perceptions of interactivity and presence with sellers. In turn, swift guanxi predicts consumers’ actual repurchases from sellers on Taobao in the future, supporting the ability of IT-enabled CMC technologies to build guanxi and facilitate online transactions.

The research is forthcoming in Ou, Carol, Paul A. Pavlou, and Robert Davison (2013), “Swift Guanxi in Online Marketplaces: The Role of Computer-Mediated-Communication Technologies,” MIS Quarterly, (forthcoming).

Professor Pavlou was recently ranked number 1 in the world for research productivity, learn more…

New Business Analytics Minor in Collaboration with Statistics

Business Analytics MinorThe Management Information Systems department is pleased to announce a new Business Analytics Minor in collaboration with the Fox School’s Department of Statistics. The coursework exposes students to hands-on, cutting edge tools and techniques in predictive modeling, forecasting, association mining, cluster analysis, decision trees, unstructured “big” data, sentiment analysis, and experimental design. Students will develop skills in these areas and learn to apply them, enhancing their knowledge and marketability. The Business Analytics Minor is appropriate for all business majors who want to be at the forefront of using data effectively in their discipline.

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Portfolio points

portfolio
port•fo•li•o (pôrt-fo¹lê-o´, port-) noun – The collection of materials which are representative of a person’s work: a photographer’s portfolio; an artist’s portfolio of drawings.

portfolio leaderboardAs an entry-level IT professional, what is in your portfolio? Besides your transcript and your diploma, what do you have to show to employers that you are going to be a successful IT professional? At Fox MIS, students show their academic and professional development success by:

  • creating and maintaining a digital identity (e-portfolio)
  • (new) compiling a required portfolio of professional development activities that is based on acquiring points for each activity
  • (new) gaining recognition for their achievements through the e-portfolio wire and portfolio point leader board.

MIS students start to develop a portfolio in their first MIS class and continue to receive opportunities to add to their portfolio as they progress through the curriculum.  Checkpoints throughout the curriculum make sure that students stay on course to graduate with the required number of minimum points. Students  receive points for participation in professional development activities and for applying academic learning to practice (e.g., internships, student organization leadership). Students showcase their achievements on e-portfolios.

The portfolio points program was started in spring 2012 by Professor Mart Doyle.

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