AMIS was named a 2010 Outstanding Student Chapter by the Association for Information Systems (AIS), the premier association for information systems. The association’s annual Student Chapter Awards recognize outstanding achievement among more than 3,000 students associated with AIS student organizations worldwide. For more information see http://www.fox.temple.edu/features/amis_award.html.
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WordCampPhilly
WordCamp Philly is scheduled to be held at the Fox School on October 30, 2010. WordPress is one of the most heavily used content management and blogging platforms in the world. The Fox School’s Management Information Systems (MIS) department is leading the way in applying these technologies to higher education. WordCamp follows a very informal format and this will be a good opportunity to network with and learn from other WordPress users. More information is available at http://wordcampphilly.com/. Temple University students, faculty, staff, and alumni are eligible for special discount. Please contact ibit@temple.edu for the discount code using your Temple email.
Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure
Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure
Brian T. Herrick
Supervisory Special Agent
Philadelphia FBI
October 7, 2010, 3:30 – 5:30pm
Alter Hall
Open to all faculty and students. For more information and to RSVP visit:
http://www.temple.edu/cs/cyberSecurityseries.html
e-portfolio contest
Submit your entry to the FoxMIS e-portfolio contest! The deadline for entry is Wednesday November 3rd, 2010 at Midnight. The top entries will receive Amazon gift certificates. The winner will be highlighted at a special event. For additional details and contest rules, please visit the Fox MIS e-portfolio site and click on the e-portfolio contest page.
New FoxMIS faculty
The Fox School’s department of Management Information Systems is proud to announce the appointment of E. Carey O’Donnell Jr. and James Moustafello as new faculty.
Assistant Professor of Practice E. Carey O’Donnell Jr. has held a number of Senior Sales and Executive Management positions and has extensive background and success in the formulation and implementation of sales and marketing strategies in the IT industry. Carey was a co-founder of The Cactus Integration Group, a telecommunications deployment company that was launched in August of 1997. In less than three years, Mr. O’Donnell built a sales and marketing organization which delivered over $90 million in annual sales. Carey is a co-founder and principal at Mesa Technical Associates, Inc., a turn-key solutions provider focused on power infrastructure applications for the telecommunications, utility, and data center sectors.
Assistant Professor of Practice and Associate Director of Center for Design + Innovation, James Moustafello is engaged in design, production, research and entrepreneurship. He is co-principal of Intellectual Property LLC, an interdisciplinary research and design studio which integrates architecture, strategy, graphics, product design, and technology. Mr. Moustafellos is also a founding partner of EnA / Elements and Alloys, a new luxury brand of fine jewelry which explores the intersection between design and business thinking, handcraftsmanship and mass production. Mr. Moustafellos’ design work has been exhibited and has won numerous awards and distinctions including Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, World Gold Council, Jewelers of America, American Institute of Architects and was featured in the exhibition ‘The Un-private House’ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Decision Neuroscience
The Fox School of Business at Temple University is pleased to announce the Interdisciplinary Symposium on Decision Neuroscience, September 24-26, 2010. The symposium brings together researchers from multiple disciplines including neuroscience, marketing, information systems, psychology, consumer behavior, and economics, to share research findings and to discuss how neuroscience can inform decision making.
The symposium is hosted by the new Center for Neural Decision Making which examines the neurobiological bases of human behavior, preference formation and decision making. Led by Dr. Angelika Dimoka, the center employs functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in combination with traditional behavioral measures to develop models for human decision-making such as online consumer behavior and system use. For more information, please visit the symposium site at: http://www.fox.temple.edu/conferences/decisionneuroscience/index.html
Joseph C. Spagnoletti to speak on Campbell’s IT vision
Campbell’s IT Vision and Organizational Impacts
The Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology in collaboration with the Management Information Systems department presents the Fox IT distinguished speaker series, featuring talks by leading professionals on essential business technology topics.
Joseph C. Spagnoletti
Senior Vice President
Chief Information Officer
Campbell Soup Company
October 13, 2010
The IT function in organizations is rapidly changing. IT roles are changing from technology to process – blurring lines with other functions. IT leader roles are shifting from traditional technology support to business process, portfolio management and change management. Campbell Soup and Joe Spagnoletti are leading the charge into this new much more enhanced and different role for IT in the organization. Learn best practices and change strategies from one of the most forward thinking IT leaders in industry.
Biography
Joseph Spagnoletti leads Campbell’s global information technology function, providing IT strategy to help Campbell meet its business goals. Since he joined Campbell in 1997 as Director-IT, Food Service, Joe has held several positions of increasing responsibility in global sales and marketing, supply chain, and research and development. Most recently, he was Vice President-IT for Campbell North America, where he successfully led several key projects, including the implementation of a trade management system and oversight of North American SAP implementations. Previously, Joe spent seven years as an Information Technology Director with medical technology company Becton Dickinson, responsible for the medical device and acute care businesses. He began his career developing and implementing financial systems for a New York City software development firm. Joe earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Albright College. He serves on the Cooper Health System’s Audit/Ethics Committee. In 2004, he was recognized with Campbell’s Influence with Honor leadership award.
Registration and attendance
Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.
Detmar W. Straub appointed Lenfest Distinguished Visiting Professor and IBIT Senior Research Fellow
Detmar W. Straub, Ph.D. has been appointed as the “Lenfest Distinguished Visiting Professor and Institute for Business and Information (IBIT) Senior Research Fellow” at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Professor Straub is the first appointee in the prestigious ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’ series, which recognizes internationally renowned scholars and engages them with the Fox School. As part of his appointment, Professor Straub will be spending several days every year interacting and working on research projects with Fox faculty and PhD students, offering PhD seminars on research methods, and presenting research projects in the School’s colloquium series. He will also consult the school on various administrative and research issues based on his capacity as the Director of Research and Doctoral Programs at Georgia State University and the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious journal MIS Quarterly. Professor Straub will be visiting Fox on September 24, 2010 for a colloquium presentation at the Management Information Systems (MIS) department, followed by an induction ceremony.
Straub said: “I am honored to be appointed the Lenfess Distinguished Visiting Professor and IBIT Senior Research Fellow at the Fox School at Temple University. This is an exciting opportunity for me to work with Fox faculty and doctoral students on an intensive and ongoing basis. I very much anticipate that in this collaboration, we will make ground-breaking discoveries in information systems and their impacts on businesses.” “We are fortunate to have Professor Detmar Straub, one of the most widely-recognized MIS researcher as our Distinguished Visiting Professor” said M. Moshe Porat, Dean of the Fox School.
Biography
A Regent’s Professor of the University System of Georgia and the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Georgia State University, Detmar has conducted research in the areas of Net-enhanced organizations (e-Commerce), information security, technological innovation, IS methodological issues, and international IT studies. He holds a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) in MIS from Indiana and a PhD in English from Penn State. He has published 165 plus papers in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Journal of MIS, Journal of AIS, Information & Management, Communications of the AIS, IEEE [PAP] Transactions on Engineering Management, Communications of the ACM, OMEGA, Academy of Management Executive, and Sloan Management Review. Detmar is the Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly, with a term ending in January of 2012. Previously he has served as Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the AIS (JAIS) and DATA BASE. He was also Co-Editor of DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. Previously, he was Associate Editor for Management Science as well on the editorial board member for a host of other journals. His consultancies with industry have been in the areas of information security, e-Commerce, and technological innovation.
Detmar serves as Director of Research and Doctoral Programs in the Robinson College of Business. He is former VP of Publications for the Association for Information Systems. He was appointed an AIS Fellow in 2005. He is the 2008 winner of the Alumni Distinguished Professor Award at Georgia State University, given annually for high achievement in research, teaching and service in a faculty of 1,050 persons.
FoxMIS Faculty and Staff
Fox IT awards video and pictures
Check out the short edited video and pictures featuring the live ice sculpture and PECO building signage from the Fox MIS and IBIT IT awards – 10th anniversary celebration.