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The Management Information Systems department was formed in 2000 to support the three strategic pillars of the Fox School of Business, entrepreneurship, globalization, and information technology. Martin Doyle serves as Department Chair and Amy Lavin is Deputy Chair.

The vision of MIS is to be a worldwide leader in transformative research and teaching on the design, use, and effects of information technology in a digital world.

The research mission is to produce knowledge that fundamentally transforms the design and use of information technology by integrating multi-disciplinary perspectives. The teaching mission is to prepare a diverse and changing population for a life-long pursuit of learning, leadership, and success with information technology in a connected world.  Our objectives include:

• Generate ground breaking research by drawing on diverse theories, methods, and approaches.
• Draw upon research to inform forward thinking professionals to design, implement, and lead innovative uses of information technology in organizations and markets.
• Offer theoretically informed, experiential, and collaborative education on the innovative and ethical design, development, and application of information technology.

The MIS department offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in information systems.

The Temple Community Platform (TCP) is a cloud-hosted platform built on top of WordPress that consists of three distinct innovations:

1. New type of learning management system (LMS) that applies social and open concepts to change learning and student development.
2. A structured measurable professional development program that gets undergraduate students ready for the workplace.
3. A model and associated software for offering 100% online graduate degree programs at low cost to achieve very high retention and satisfaction.

The platform is showcased at the main WordPress.org site. Take a look and make sure you leave a rating. The key design principles include:

• Open: All activity is open (e.g., a new post in a course is automatically published on the Internet, a widget displays ‘who is online’, e-portfolios are available on the Internet).
• Enable social connections and flow: All members can connect, communicate and share with each other (e.g., view profiles, message, share links)
• Individual control: Members independently generate and control their content and manage their identity (e.g., create a site, choose how to earn professional development points, dashboard analytics help students compare their development and progress to others)
• Discovery: Tools that encourage discovery of new members, new activity, and content (e.g., community activity list, leaderboard, search, tagging, permanent URLs, PRO point calendar).
• Aggregation: Activity and content is collated (e.g., sites are automatically published through RSS, badges, graduation analysis and peer comparison analysis on the PRO dashboard).

To learn more see: Mandviwalla, M., Schuff, D., Chacko, M. and Miller, L. Is That All There Is? Taking Education to New Levels in the Social Media Era. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, September 2013. 

Team members

• Munir Mandviwalla
• Manoj Chacko
• Laurel Miller

If you have any questions about the platform please contact Laurel Miller at Laurel.Miller@temple.edu. 

As internationally and nationally recognized experts in their fields of study, MIS faculty connect teaching and research, industry and academia, real-world experience, and theoretical constructs. The research is applied, reflects our integrative focus, and is published in premier outlets such as Management Information Systems Quarterly and Information Systems Research.

The vision of MIS is to be a worldwide leader in transformative research and teaching on the design, use, and effects of information technology in a digital world. The research mission is to produce knowledge that fundamentally transforms the design and use of information technology by integrating multi-disciplinary perspectives.

Areas of expertise

IT and strategy

• Impact of IT Investments on Firm Performance
• Dynamic and Improvisational Capabilities
• IT Design and IT Innovation
• ERP Implementation in Large Firms
• Ideal CIO Reporting Structure
• Open Product Sourcing
• Business Intelligence/Analytics
• IT Human Capital
• Cybersecurity

E-Commerce and Internet technologies

• Broadband policy
• Online Reviews 
• Recommendation Systems
• Crowdsourcing
• Virtual teams

Social media

• Social Media in Organizations
• Social Media and Politics
• Social Media Strategy
• Social Analytics
• Peer influence on technology/product adoption
• Large network analysis

Digital innovation and design

• Design Science
• Digital Transformation
• Digital platform strategy
• Complex systems
• Digital start-ups

The objective of an independent study is to provide students an opportunity to pursue a topic of their interest with in depth supervision of a faculty member.

GUIDELINES

• An independent study is designed to accommodate exceptional cases and advanced students.
• Each credit of independent study should be roughly equivalent to 56 hours of work (based on the model of one hour per week of contact time and three hours of additional work in a 14 week semester). The ratio of contact time to independent work is decided by the instructor.
• An independent study can be one credit or more, however the typical independent study is three credit hours. A student should have completed at least 40% of their program before taking an independent study and have a GPA of 3.0 or better.  All current MIS faculty – full time or part time – are eligible to work with students on an independent study.
• All approved MIS independent studies count as an MIS elective. 

PROCEDURE

1. Fill in the form below and submit to the MIS department or relevant program director. After initial review, the form is then submitted to the MIS department chair for final approval. 
2. Upon completion, the MIS department will register the student.

Note: Each semester, all independent study students may be required to do a public department-wide presentation on their work. This requirement is over and above the specific requirements of the specific independent study.

DOCUMENTS AND FORMS

• Independent Study Request Form_8.17.17