About
Instructor
Larry.Brandolph@temple.edu
Conwell Hall – Office of Vice President Computer Services
215-204-7077
Biography
Larry Brandolph is currently the Associate Vice President and the Chief Information Security Officer for Temple University. Reporting to the Chief Information Officer, he is responsible for the strategy, architecture, engineering, operations, service management and continuity planning of Temple’s Infrastructure (Data Centers, Network, Telecommunications, and Servers). Additionally, as the CISO, he is responsible for the development and implementation of global security policy, standards, guidelines and procedures to ensure ongoing maintenance of security. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor teaching for the Fox School of Business in Management Information Systems for Master and Undergraduate programs.
Prior to Temple University, Brandolph spent 16 years with CIGNA and in his most recent role was the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering, CIGNA Information Technology, reporting to CIGNA’s Vice President of Operations. Brandolph was head of CIGNA’s Distributed IT Operations with responsibility for the End User Services (Data Center Management, Field Support Operations, End User Provisioning, On-boarding and Security Services & Identity Management.) Prior roles Brandolph was responsibility for all Distributed Computing Services. In this capacity, he was responsible for CIGNA’s Wintel Server Platform, End User Services, Security and Identity Management.
Brandolph received his undergraduate in Humanities and Business (1994) from the Pennsylvania State University and his MBA in Technology Management (2004) from University of Phoenix.
Outside, Brandolph has been a presenter for numerous conferences and continues to speak on behalf of emerging technologies and their impact in real world environments. Brandolph has presented at the Directory Expert Conference for several years and keynoted at VMworld 2008 presenting The New Enterprise Data Center: Virtualized and Green. He also spoke about one of the largest Virtual Desktop Implementations. Brandolph is a board member for the Colonial Burlington Foundation of Historic Burlington New Jersey and a member of Society of Information Management.
Course description
Organizations that strategically select, manage, and deploy digital business models prosper in the global economy. Students will use systems and business process thinking to create and analyze strategies for technology-enabled organizational and industry transformation. They will propose innovative solutions for new and existing business initiatives to leverage enterprise, consumer, and social technologies.
Course Objectives:
- Understand the transformative impact of technology on standard business practices.
- Identify the components of enterprise information architecture and its strategic role in the organization.
- Use innovation frameworks to analyze competitive landscape for emerging IT products and services.
- Analyze disruptive potential of technology and formulate a response from an incumbent firm.
- Apply new digital business models such as cloud computing, web services, crowdsourcing, and two-sided platforms to envision new products and services.
- Explain the role of data, information, and knowledge in informing an organization’s strategy.
- Compare IT governance models in both a single-country and multinational context.
- Create a business case for the value of an information technology initiative.
- Develop best practices for securing an organization’s information infrastructure.
Credits
Mart Doyle
David Schuff
