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Sunil Wattal wrote a new post on the site MIS Department Intranet 9 years ago
Travel policy for MIS PhD students
All MIS doctoral students are eligible to apply for up to $500 / year in travel funds. Doctoral student travel is managed by the departmental PhD coordinator. The research […]
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Munir Mandviwalla wrote a new post on the site Temple MIS 9 years ago
What if there was a tool that created an educational environment that didn’t just teach but engaged students so that learning was communal—an interactive social activity, not a static one-way street of facts and […]
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Munir Mandviwalla wrote a new post on the site Temple MIS 9 years ago
Temple’s AIS Student Chapter won big again at the Sixth Annual AIS Student Leadership Conference and Competition receiving first and second place. These victories mark four straight years of Temple’s clinching a […]
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Munir Mandviwalla wrote a new post on the site Temple MIS 9 years ago
It came as a complete surprise to Peter Hwang to learn that he’d won the 2015 Student Leadership Award given by Fox School‘s Management Information Systems Department and Institute for Business and Information […]
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Munir Mandviwalla posted an update in the group MIS 4596 Sp 2015 – Mandviwalla 9 years, 3 months ago
The grades for case 3 are in the gradebook. Each of you should have also received a feedback email from me.
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Munir Mandviwalla posted an update in the group MIS 4596 Sp 2015 – Mandviwalla 9 years, 3 months ago
The gradebook has been updated with case 2 and exam 2 grades. Case 3 is coming. You can pick up exams from the MIS office in Speakman 210.
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Munir Mandviwalla posted an update in the group rDOOR Destroyers 9 years, 3 months ago
So where are the updated documents?
Also as a reminder, don’t forget to schedule the team meetings with me for the next 2 weeks. Please do it before the end of this week. -
Munir Mandviwalla wrote a new post on the site Temple MIS 9 years, 4 months ago
When Ron Riddell graduated with a B.B.A. from Temple in 1968 computers were, he says, a “mystic temple in society.” But, armed with his degree, Riddell found himself in the computer field, and wound up, nearly 40 years later, with a successful career as a mainframe programmer. He’s currently a system support analyst and Assistant Vice President at Wells Fargo Bank.
Part of the achievement he attributes to luck, but “with out a degree at Temple I wouldn’t have gotten where I’m at…it opened doors to reasonable success.”
Now he’s helping other Temple students get their degrees, and have a chance at finding open doors, by funding the Ron and Ronda Riddell Endowed Scholarship with a $50,000 gift which is being matched by the Fox School for a total endowment of $100,000.
Munir Mandviwalla, Associate Professor and Chair, MIS, says the gift is “transformational because it will support hard working Temple students who choose business technology as a career. It is also the first such gift in the short history of the department.”
Riddell understands hard work and tight finance. He chose Temple because he could afford the tuition and live at home (commuting to class was common at the time). He got a further boost about two years into his studies. Temple became “state-related,” a designation that Pennsylvania gives universities that are independently run, but receive financial appropriations—in exchange for offering tuition discounts to students that are residents of Penn.
It was while he was at school that he met his future wife, Ronda Currens, although she didn’t attend Temple. The two met at church and she was only in Philly for a year before going home to Minneapolis. “ Four and a half years, and a lot of phone calls later,” the two married.
A job at Philco was Riddell’s first open door. After 18 months in production, he moved into programming. At the time, Philco was heavily involved in defense contracting, including work with NASA. His first computer was a Burroughs with 256 kilobytes. “I’ve got more memory sitting in my programmable alarm clock,” he points out.
The position at Philco lead to a stint at The Franklin Mint, then years of work at Combustion Engineering (a company who, at the time, was a leader in the development of both fossil and nuclear steam supply power systems.)
Then he took a job with Fidelity Bank and he’s now bee n in banking for 30 years.
“I didn’t build a better mousetrap. I got lucky getting a job in computers when demand was high.” Riddell says. He also invested, and lived a comfortable but modest life with Ronda (who succumbed to MS in 2009).
He wanted to do something that was large enough to make an impact, and the endowed fund does just that.
He also hopes that naming the scholarship after his wife, Ronda, will help people remember her. She was with him for 45 years.Most importantly, though, “if it helps get a kid through college” then Riddell’s more than happy to have made sure doors continue to open.
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Munir Mandviwalla wrote a new post on the site Temple MIS 9 years, 4 months ago
What you say and how you say it may be just as important in online interactions as it is in face-to-face conversations. Especially, if you want to be thought of as a leader. Assistant Professor of MIS, Steven L. Johnson and colleagues recently analyzed the language used by members of threaded discussion boards to determine who was a leader, and who was perceived to be a leader.
The key finding? “Emergent leaders — those viewed as most influential by other participants — tend to use language differently than other participants.” Johnson says.
The research was conducted by asking members of the boards who they thought were influential. A method Johnson describes as similar to a nomination process.
After “controlling for the obvious: formal role, boundary spanning and centrality” the team came up with about 3,000 potential leaders. They then looked at the written texts posted by the 59 nominees and compared them to the 3,000.
They found that people who are thought of as leaders:
are among most frequent posters,
use positive language,
have concise posts (fewer words per post),
use simpler language (higher readability scores)
use language that is more prototypical of the community (language in their posts looks more like the typical language of all other participants).These findings superseded whether or not the emergent leader had a formal title or position, although having one (such as administrator or moderator) did sometimes help a person get nominated.
The research was conducted by looking at all the posts in a one-year period of three online communities—all of which had a computer technology focus.
Johnson says that he was surprised, when they began the work, that there weren’t more studies done “that looked at how we wrote.”
The new findings provide, he says, empirical evidence that supports what most people in leadership theory believe. “To be a leader, you have to have good communication skills.”
S. L. Johnson, Hani Safadi, and Samer Faraj (forthcoming). “The Emergence of Online Community Leadership,” Information Systems Research. -
Munir Mandviwalla wrote a new post on the site Temple MIS 9 years, 4 months ago
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant totaling nearly $900,000 to trace human behaviors through big data. This marks the fourth NSF-awarded grant in the last five years that an interdisciplinary team of Temple faculty members has received to study the evolution of digital artifacts using large-scale digital trace data. The collaboration joins researchers from the Fox School’s Management Information Systems Department and College of Science and Technology (CST).
“When humans interact with digital systems, we leave a trace. Every call we make, every website we visit, it’s stamped with time and space information,” said Dr. Youngjin Yoo, the Harry A. Cochran Professor of Management Information Systems at the Fox School, and the research grant’s primary investigator. “What we do is constantly changing, and the trace data can act as DNA. What we focus on through this research is the repeat behaviors in humans that can be captured through digital trace data.
“Using those evolutionary patterns, we believe we can predict future behaviors of individuals and organizations. For example, by detecting the changes of commute patterns of individuals, we can predict overall public-transit systems’ performance in the future. Similarly, we want to be able to predict the changes in individual behaviors based on environmental changes.Yoo said he and the grant’s co-principal investigators will study digitally enabled processes in complex digital systems, which “are like a living ecosystem, in that they constantly evolve,” he said. If patterns in the trace data represent what they call “behavioral genes,” Yoo said, alterations to those behavioral routines are “gene mutations.” Eventually, he said, the research team envisions developing software that will better predict the changes to those behavioral genes.
The benefits in doing so, according to Yoo, “are endless.” In a healthcare application, trace data could develop a pattern by which a patient sees a doctor or produce an average cost of care per patient. In an industry sense, such “gene mutations” could impact performance and cost.
“On the surface,” Yoo said, “all smart phones, for example, look the same. But everybody’s phone is different because of apps. It used to be that the product’s designer would make the product, and that was the end of the story. Now, it’s only the beginning. Millions of apps are downloaded. They’re changing constantly.
“Our argument is that, particularly in digital space, innovation never remains the same. It constantly changes and takes different forms.”
The research team includes: Yoo; Dr. Sunil Wattal, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the Fox School; Dr. Zoran Obradovic, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Data Analytics at CST; and Dr. Rob Kulathinal, Assistant Professor of Biology at the College of Science and Technology.
The NSF-awarded research grant runs through Jan. 31, 2018.
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Munir Mandviwalla posted an update in the group MIS 4596 Sp 2015 – Mandviwalla 9 years, 4 months ago
I posted all the exam 1 grades on the MIS community. You should be able to access it from the Dashboard. The actual exam is available from the MIS office in Speakman 210. .
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Munir Mandviwalla joined the group rDOOR Destroyers 9 years, 5 months ago
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Munir Mandviwalla posted an update in the group MIS 4596 Sp 2015 – Mandviwalla 9 years, 5 months ago
All the instructor slides will be available at this URL (please save it): http://1drv.ms/1BH3YSU
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Munir Mandviwalla posted an update in the group MIS 4596 Sp 2015 – Mandviwalla 9 years, 6 months ago
All MIS 4596 Sec 001 – Mandviwalla students now have the ability to post on the class site.
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Munir Mandviwalla wrote a new post on the site Temple MIS 9 years, 6 months ago
A little friendly competition and a lot of hard work are the hallmarks of the Fox School of Business Management Information Systems Capstone Project Showcase, an event where teams of MIS seniors present their final projects.Last semester, though, fun won out over hard, when a panel of judges awarded first prize to the team that built findr, a mobile app that sends people out, scavenger hunt style, into the city of Philadelphia tracking down fun things to do, see and eat.Giovanna Corridoni, a recent MIS and International Business graduate who was part of the winning team, says that creating a capstone project is, “intense, more intense than a paper or a case study.”
One of the hardest parts was figuring out what to do in the first place, she says. The team wanted “something worth doing” that could have a solid business plan. If they didn’t create something people wanted to do, or buy, “what’s the point?”
Jordan Szenicer also said that agreeing on a viable idea was tough. The five person team (which included himself, Corridoni, Jalen Blot, Matt Philips and Chaitra Nataraj) had two brainstorming sessions with no big epiphany until he shared his own wish that sites like Yelp served as better guides for urbane exploration. “I wished there was something that just scouted out a day for me.”So that’s what they built.
The application is designed to take the user from point to point in a city, with incentives for visiting each spot. Take a picture at the Rocky statue and get the address of a great restaurant; go to the restaurant and get a free appetizer. Then continue onto a concert that the app tells you is happening—rather than hearing that a great band is town too late to get to the show.
The revenue stream would come from partnering with restaurants, Corridoni says, and the target market was 18 to 35 year olds— people who want to explore, but are overwhelmed with choices so “always go back to the same restaurant.
The road to completing the explore and enjoy app wasn’t smooth. Both Szenicer and Corridoni say that there was a last minute scramble to pull everything together.
But they pulled it off, and won. The actual prize was 100 Diamond Dollars for each member of the team, but Corridoni says the reward was really that she got to use her skills to create something awesome.
Alumnus Ben Hasan, Senior Vice President, IT Strategic Services, at Walmart, served as the team’s mentor and thinks they won because both the product and the presentation was the best.
Szenicer says, “After our presentation ended, I knew at that moment that we won. I was so proud of all of us. I just felt so great in what we had achieved.”
Of course, just completing and presenting a capstone project is quite an achievement.
Other projects presented at the December event included:
Rapid RampupA gamification-based app that aims to reduce the time it takes for new-hires to become 100% proficient in their job. Mentor: Michael Bradshaw
Ian JohnsonJude HabibDaniel HoffensBrandon Warech
SafEvacThe smartphone application and dashboard provide schools and local police with a tool to better respond, secure, and evacuate during a school shooting. Mentor: Bruce Fadem
Corey KalkanogluJosh MethMichael NguyenKarrie Burgess
HealthFit ProHealthFit Pro is a lifestyle application that enables diabetic and non-diabetic users to take control of their health by monitoring their diet, exercise and glucose readings. Mentor: Tim O’Rourke
Mathew CottonKira GreenleeMahfuz HassanVeer PatelJerrin Raju
ZAPZAP is a gamified energy management app. that displays real-time energy use relative to other citizens with similar homes in their zip code, city, or state. Mentor: Jeff Hamilton
Steven CawleyMichael FracasJonathan GavalaAlexandra GuilfordJohn Hendricks
TIM- Time is MoneyTIM is a mobile app that allows people to outsource waiting in line, so they can best take advantage of all of their free time. Mentor: Joseph Spagnoletti
Jesse DahmsZachary SilversteinThane TaggRachael VoluckChristopher Pak -
Sunil Wattal wrote a new post on the site Business Intelligence 9 years, 7 months ago
Please email the completed exam to me (swattal@temple.edu) before 6:00pm Sunday Dec 14, 2104
use of internet is not permitted while you are completing the exam.
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Munir Mandviwalla wrote a new post on the site Munir Mandviwalla 9 years, 7 months ago
Achieving academic-industry collaboration through departmental advisory boardsAchieving Academic-Industry Collaboration with Departmental Advisory Boards Munir Mandviwalla, Bruce Fadem, Michael Goul, Joey F. […]
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Sunil Wattal wrote a new post on the site Business Intelligence 9 years, 7 months ago
Leave your response as a comment on this post December 9. Remember, it only needs to be a few sentences.
Think for about 100 seconds and answer the following questions:
What was the most important takeaway […]
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Here are my biggest takeaways:
1. Data Analytics can be successfully implemented if the organization culture is aligned for data driven decision making
2. Leadership plays an important role to drive Data Driven culture across the organization
3. Data Visualization tools are important to communicate the organizations most pressing data needs
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I think it was both interesting and important to learn that data analytics can be used in every industry to optimize and improve business processes and decisions. Similarly, most analytics techniques are the same across industries, so having this background is important no matter what company you work for. Although I thought KPIs and good visualizations were the most valuable tools in analyzing data, there are a large number of helpful data tools that, when all used together, make for hugely successful IT/ BI initiatives.
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My biggest takeaway from MIS5101 was that everybody wants to use data analytics and visualization to improve business practices and drive shareholder value, but not everybody knows how. Understanding data and implementing business intelligence tools is more challenging than using a “gut reaction” or qualatative assumptions to make decisions. Many organizations do not have the personnel capable of using these tools, or the leadership willing or able to lead strategically using them. By entering into the business world with experience and eagerness to use data analytics and visualization, we will have a competitive advantage over more traditional-style leaders.
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My biggest takeaway from this course is that the efficient use of data analytics involves embedding it in every business process, collecting and presenting results in simple yet exhaustive visuals and finally drawing critical insights from the data presented, the insights that further help in the business decision process. Companies that have the capabilities to do so, gain a significant competitive advantage over the companies that neglect the importance of data analytics.
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My biggest takeaway from the class is that major decisions are based on data rather than the gut feeling of the managers. This is applicable to companies of all sizes. Analytics and visualizations aid in this decision making process and they should be simple for the message to be effective. We need to keep a look out of incorrect and misleading visualizations.
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What I really enjoyed was hearing everyone participate during class. As a non-Fox Business School student, my program is in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, it was truly a pleasure listening to the Fox students get involved in the course material and really present themselves at a high standard. Gave me a good idea of what and who else is out there in various business sectors. Plus, class content was easily relatable to my career and academic interests so that’s always a positive!
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My biggest takeaways from this course are:
1. Use of SQL Workbench: This is a core skill, which I had a rough idea about, but never had the opportunity to get hands on experience on it.
2. What is big data really all about? It is about having huge volumes of data, but the key to analyzing this data lies in sifting through all the data to find the most relevant and key insights and translating this into valuable information which can be easily understood.
3. The Data Analytics Challenge was a huge learning experience where we got to put our skills to the real test. Our team performed really well, getting to the last stage.
4. The skill of creating an infographic: I created two infographics for this course. This (data analytics challenge and group project) really helped me in analyzing large data sets to present information in the form of a good visual, thus enhancing my skill on Piktochart. -
Besides learning knowing how to use visualization programs such as Tableau my biggest takeaway was understanding the difference between knowledge, data, and information. Knowledge is what we know, personal map of the world. Data are the facts or descriptions of the world. We can capture data in information, then move it around for analysis.
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What I’ve learned is that data is collected in almost every aspect of a person’s life, from using your cell phone to grocery shopping to receiving healthcare. That data can be collected and analyzed in variety of ways. Ultimately, the goal of all this data collection and analysis is generate more revenue for corporations who provide you services.
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The biggest learning opportunities for me were the in class exercises. For example, while a lecture on SQL and databases is key to understanding their framework, being able to sit down and play with finding things in a database shows you the business value. The same can be said for the pivot table and ERD exercises, I would definitely want these to be in future versions of this class. If I had to explain what this course was about I would say to understand the distinction between data, information, and knowledge and how each of those three can improve your business through the vessel of technology.
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The biggest takeaway for me from this class was that the use of data analytics across industries is as prevalent and robust as ever. However, challenges exist as companies move to be more data-driven in their actions. The use of data to present ideas and make decisions can be complicated and leave people feeling more confused. One of the key things I took away from this course is to ensure that the data is presented in such a manner that tells a clear story and provides insights that can lead to more efficient strategies and operations. Also, people need to adjust their mindset to be more data-driven so as to be able to have the conversations and an understanding of the power of the analytics.
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What I will remember most is some things to watch out for when moving toward being more data driven. The readings have shown some issues regarding personal safety versus the “greater good”, the role of technology on the industry (in terms of in what role publishers (or others) now fit), and accuracy versus access. Despite potential drawbacks, the course has shown that those who navigate these well will see great benefits by using data driven decision making (netflix, cheezburger, call center retention case).
Further, just as important as the actual data is the way that it is presented. It is absolutely necessary to ensure the data is clear and easy to understand or else it will not be used. The story must be crystal clear.
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Before joining this course, I was not aware that data could be used in so many different ways. And each persons perspective could lead into analyzing it in different ways to the need of the business and coming up with the quantitative solutions for the problems. Through our project I realized that there is a strong connection in real world between the data and the process followed either to gather the data, to analyse it and convert it to strategic recommendations.
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Takeaways:
1. Use of data and importance of having proper data.
2. Use of various tools for various reasons – “One size doesn’t fit all”
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This class was highly valuable in my understanding of Business Intelligence and how the “game” is played on the global scale. One of the biggest things that have stuck with me was the data-information-knowledge-wisdom process. I feel I can apply that to many different things in my life. I love technology and business analytics and this class facilitated my passion for the arts. I hope that I may continue using what I’ve learned in this class for years to come. Thank You.
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My most important takeaway from this course is the way data analytics have influenced the decision-making process in today’s world. Also, it is important to present the analyzed data visually in such a way that is easy to understand, coveys the information properly, and visually appealing.
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The learning from all the in-class exercises and take-home assignments is very valuable to me. Having a business education background and having no knowledge on technical concepts like SQL and ER modeling, I learnt to use the technology to make things simpler and easier while dealing with big data. I had to watch at least 10 videos and spend hours in solving a single SQL query but, everything was worth my efforts is what I’d say!
I never knew about the online info-graphic making website until I was given the assignment. It was fun creating and sharing other teams’ info-graphic in class! -
My biggest takeaway from MIS 5101 is how to analyze big data and more importantly how to visualize this data to others. I learnt some of the very important concepts like SQL- for data extraction and info graphics for data presentation, which will be immensely helpful to me even if I shape my career outside IT.
If I had to explain a scholar what MIS 5101 is about? I would say it’s all about data extraction and presentation. Practically speaking, in today’s era when you are surrounded by data, it is really important to understand what data is useful and how will you extract it. Also, this exercise is more useful if you are able to present this data more effectively and info-graphics rightly taught us to do so.
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In this course, my biggest takeaway is that everyone wants to use data effectively but no one knows how.. That being said, the most tangible aspect of this course was using the ER Modeling and SQL programs. I was hoping to use more of these. The way I see is it if you understand the current ways in which people are manipulating and coding data then can be part of the solution and hopefully figure out new ways to analyze and ultimately use Big Data.The bottom line is the usage of data is powerful and cannot be ignored as it has continually been proved to be a more effective way of making important business decisions.
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The biggest takeaway for myself would be just the power of data and the need for all corporations to integrate data analytics into their business is some capacity. Whether it be finding out more about a specific customer segment or doing market research, data can only help in the decision making process. I would tell a future MIS5101 student that this course is not only about how to incorporate analytics into daily business operations, but it is about how to best use data and how to properly make decisions based off of your findings. This course helps in taking that next step of actually utilizing the data to tell a story or gain a specific outcome.
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The biggest take away was strategy being data driven. The business world will be dominated by organizations who have learned how to use data and CRM tools to understand their customers and the way people behave. That will be the key difference between the very successful companies and those in the middle of the road.
The course was about how data is being collected in amounts just over the past few years more than ever before. Organizations are understanding the necessity of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting all of this data to find trends, forecast, and understand consumer behaviors. Articles and case studies give examples of how organizations handle big data, what tools they use and why to differentiate themselves from competitors. -
After reflecting for 100 seconds, I feel the most important takeaway from the course is not so much the specific tools we learned to use, but the importance of data analytics in informing important decisions. I learned how to use data analytics to solve problems, offer new solutions, and most importantly, to tell a persuasive story. I most enjoyed the data visualization aspect of the course, and feel telling a story through dat visualization is the most valuable skill I will take from the course.
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My biggest takeaway is that managers need not be experts in the generating/capturing information in order to maximize the knowledge potential of the company. By having a broad understanding of overarching data philosophy and strategy, managers can delegate data strategy to specialized experts and instead allocate their time to the interpretation and application of those specialist’s findings. Given the infancy of Big Data, even achieving a 5-10% increase in insight capabilities can be devastating to the competition. Slow playing cultivating a knowledge culture simply because we can’t achieve “100%” of the vision is a sure route to a competitive disadvantage.
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Sunil Wattal wrote a new post on the site Business Intelligence 9 years, 7 months ago
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Munir Mandviwalla wrote a new post on the site Temple MIS 9 years, 7 months ago
Getting a named professorship is like making it to a pro ball team, says Dr. Youngjin Yoo, Professor of Management Information Systems and Director, Center for Design and Innovation, Fox School of Business and […]
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