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2010 IT Awards

I am pleased to announce the nomination period is now open for student, faculty and administration awards for the 2012 Fox IT awards.
Is there an administrator, faculty member, or student who you feel made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department during the calendar year 2011? 
Nominate them for a Fox IT award!
Please submit–no later than Friday, March 16–your nominations for these awards.

Administrative Leadership – This award is given annually to an administrator who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.

Eligibility: Full time administrators of the Fox School of Business and Management who have been employed at Temple for at least two semesters including the current term.
Who can nominate: Any Temple affiliated person including students, faculty, and administration, as well as alumni.
How to nominate: Submit a name and a short paragraph describing the rationale for nomination via email to steven@temple.edu.
Faculty Leadership – This award is given annually to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Eligibility: Full and part-time faculty who have been employed at Temple for at least two semesters including the current term.
Who can nominate: Any Temple affiliated person including students, faculty, and administration, as well as alumni.
How to nominate: Submit a name and a short paragraph describing the rationale for nomination via email to steven@temple.edu.

Student Leadership – Awarded annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.

Eligibility: All full time undergraduate MIS students, all full and part-time MIS graduate students.
Who can nominate: Any Temple affiliated person including students, faculty, and administration, as well as alumni.
How to nominate: Submit a name and a short paragraph describing the rationale for nomination via email to steven@temple.edu.
Nominations can be submitted immediately and are due by next Friday, March 16.

image credit: 2010 IT Awards by foxmis, on Flickr

New MS in IT auditing and cyber-security launched in January 2012

MS ITACSThe new MS in ITACS started in January 2012 with the first batch of students who will prepare for careers in controlling the risks of IT including auditing and cyber-security. The program is based on ISACA, a global association of information systems professionals, so that students are trained to complete the Certified Information System Auditor (CISA) exam at the end of their studies. 

Spring 2012 classes include enterprise architecture, IT audit process, and goverance as well as coaching on business skills. Students who complete this short 12 month program can apply for rapidly expanding career options at accounting firms, multinational corporations, consultancies and government agencies. 

The ITACS program, is one of the first in the country to address the pressing needs of industry for IT auditing and cyber-security personnel.   The IT auditing field is a growing industry and this program will prepare students with the foundation and skills to become successful IT auditors.
Tom Yucis, Lead Architecture Specialist, Dow Chemicals, founding member, Fox ITACS advisory council

As part of designing the program, Rich Flanagan, Assistant Professor, and Director, IT auditing and cyber-security programs, has formed an advisory council of leading IT audit practitioners who will guide and mentor the ITACS program and include:

  • Michael G. Griffith, Pfizer, Inc.
  • Bruce Murphy, Deloitte & Touche LLP
  • Tom Yucis, Dow Chemicals
  • Robert E. Davis, Consultant and book author
  • Michael Romeu-Lugo, Teleflex, Inc.
  • Frank T. Mancuso, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP 
  • Stan Szwalbenest, JP Morgan Chase
  • Thu Nguyen, Verizon

Personally, I believe that a candidate who goes through this program and ultimately becomes CISA certified will be rounded and will increase his/her chances landing a job within their field of studies. In addition, the credential will give them an advantage over other candidates during the hiring process.
Thu Nguyen, Internal Audit Manager, Verizon, founding member, Fox ITACS advisory council

For more information, visit the ITACS site at: http://sbm.temple.edu/ms/ms-itacs.html or contact Rich Flanagan at Richard.Flanagan@Temple.edu or 1 215.204.3077.

Fox MIS Community Update 2011

 Fox MIS Community Update May 2012

The FOX MIS community grows stronger every day and now has 2562 unique blogs, 3808 registered students, faculty, staff, and alumni members and 947 active e-portfolios. Since January 2009, 9,936 posts, 25,815 comments, and more than 100 courses have been generated on the site. According to Google Analytics, since March 2011, more than a hundred thousand (105,131) unique visitors have viewed the site.  

Social Education at Temple University, Fox School of BusinessThe community is based on the FOX MIS community platform, a set of software tools and templates based on WordPress and BuddyPress which enable social education – a concept that integrates learning, teaching, professional development, placement, administration, and socialization by applying social media and Web 2.0 concepts.

The FOX MIS community platform implements the social education concept by enabling connections, community building, and content management. Every member – student, faculty, and staff – is a socially connected content generator and manager. In social education, the FOX MIS community becomes an important part of the day-to-day life of the student and fits between their Facebook (friends and family) and their LinkedIn community (formal professional connections).

FOX MIS Community Statistics December 2011During the period, November 01, 2011 to December 01, 2011, the main site received 12,706 unique visitors with a total of 25,713 visits, and 81,115 page views. Each visitor spent an average of about 4 minutes on the site and 43% of the visitors were new for that month. 45% of the visitors found the site through a search engine while about 37% directly entered the URL. The most frequently used identifiable search term was “foxmis”. The most frequently visited page was the home page, followed by the login page, and then the grade book page.

The pattern is somewhat different from six months ago: During the period April 01, 2011 to May 01, 2011 the site received 8,902 unique visitors, with a total of 22,754 visits, and 66,420 page views. Each visitor spent an average of about 4 minutes on the site and about 33% of the visitors were new that month. 37% of the visitors found the site through a search engine with about 46% entering a direct URL. The most frequently used identifiable search term was also “foxmis”. The most frequently visited page was still the home page followed by the grade book page.

Note: The above statistics are only for the main blog, they do not include the 2000+ other blogs on the site.

Learn more about the FOX MIS Community project.

 

Gordon Burtch, Yang Yang, Sunil Wattal, Pei-yu Chen, Paul Pavlou, and Youngjin Yoo to present at ICIS 2011

ICIS 2011Fox School MIS faculty and doctoral students to present their research at the 2011 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Shanghai, China, December 4-7, 2011.

 

PANEL
Human Capital of IT Professionals: A Research Agenda
Soon Ang; Rajiv Banker; Ravi Bapna; Sandra Slaughter; Sunil Wattal (Chair)

PAPER
Digital Technology and the Variation in Design Routines: A Sequence Analysis of Four Design Processes
(Nominated for best paper)
James Gaskin; Veeresh Thummadi; Kalle Lyytinen; Youngjin Yoo

Winner Determination of Open Innovation Contests in Online Markets
Yang Yang; Pei-yu Chen; Rajiv Banker

Herding Behavior as a Network Externality
Gordon Burtch

An Empirical Examination of the Antecedents of Contribution Patterns in Crowdfunded Markets
Gordon Burtch; Anindya Ghose; Sunil Wattal

RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS
Nurturing Sales Entrepreneurship in Consumer-to-Consumer Marketplaces
Carol Ou; Wing Sze Poon; Paul Pavlou; Robert Davison

Munir Mandviwalla, Steven Johnson, Paul Pavlou, and Sunil Wattal discuss Social Media on Temple TV

TUTV-Community-Forum-Social-Media-140x100Fox School MIS Professors Munir Mandviwalla, Steven Johnson, Paul Pavlou, and Sunil Wattal organized and participated in a televised talk show focusing on “The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly of Social Media” for Temple University Television, November 14, 2011. The show moderated by Dr. Mandviwalla is part of the TU TV Community Forum and features conversation among the panelists about the use of social media in politics, electronic commerce, and for business.

The Digital Marketing Revolution

Digital MarketingInteractive digital marketing spending in the U.S. will grow exponentially in the near term to over $50 billion by 2014. Learn about how you can participate in this revolution from digital marketing managers in two of the most well-known brands in the world – Dow Chemical and GlaxoSmithKline.

The Digital Marketing Revolution
November 14, 2011
12pm, Alter Hall 239

Jim DeLash
Director, Digital Marketing and Media, GlaxoSmithKline

Kathy Herron
Digital Marketing Manager, The Dow Chemical Company

You will also hear about the Fox School’s new minor in Digital Marketing which is a joint program between the top 20 U.S. News and World Report ranked Department of Management Information Systems and the Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management.

The event will also feature Jimmy Johns sandwiches for all attendees!

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