Munir Mandviwalla

SUJA CHANDRASEKARAN

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADER AWARD

Suja Chandrasekaran is the Vice President of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) of Walmart’s Information Systems Division. She is responsible for establishing the overall strategic direction of Walmart’s expanding EIM function. Suja leads the development, implementation and ongoing operation of EIM products and services and is technical subject matter expert for the future direction of information management initiatives.

Before joining Walmart in 2012, Suja was the Vice President and Global Chief Information Officer at The Timberland Company. She also worked at PepsiCo where she spent three years as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for PepsiCo, North America with responsibilities across Frito-Lay, Pepsi Beverages, Quaker, Tropicana and Gatorade across all business units. Prior to her role at PepsiCo, Suja led business transformation at Nestle Americas.

Suja earned her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Madras in Madras, India. She has a Master’s degree in Business Systems from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. She has also received a bachelor’s executive development education from the London Business School in London, England.

THIRTEENTH ANNUAL IT AWARDS

Thirteenth Annual IT Awards

The Thirteenth Annual Fox IT Awards were held on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 and featured the Fox IT leader Award for Suja Chandrasekaran, Vice President, Enterprise Information Management, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the Fox IT Innovator Award for Aleem Walji, Director, Innovation Labs, World Bank, and the Fox IT Award for Distinguished Alumni for Atish Banerjea, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, NBCUniversal, Inc.

The event also featured awards for students, faculty, and staff:

STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD Ryan Oliveira	ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD Cynthia Smith
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Iris Kapo Elias Hessler	IBIT IT LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP Jennifer O’Malley
NIRAJ AND CARA PATEL SCHOLARSHIP Rachael Jill Voluck	ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS Outstanding Officer: Czarina Agravante Outstanding Member: Gabrielle Lopez
JOHN H. SHAIN SCHOLARSHIP Paula L. Kozak	TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD David Schuff
RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD Paul Pavlou	ADJUNCT OF THE YEAR AWARD Dina Lichtman
FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD Richard Flanagan	ADMINISTRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Joseph Allegra

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IT Awards

IT Awards 2013

The Business Value of Big Data: Insights from Temple University’s 2012 Big Data Conference

The Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) is pleased to announce the release of The IBIT Report – The Business Value of Big Data: Insights from Temple University’s 2012 Big Data Conference authored by David Schuff, Temple University, Larry Dignan, ZDNet, Paul A. Pavlou, Temple University, Suja Chandrasekaren, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Clark Frogley, Chartis Global Investigative Services, Adrian Gardner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, James Golden, Accenture, and William Stolte, Merck.

In this report, we discuss that while big data has received great attention, the question of how to create value remains open. What remains to be seen is whether companies will be able to navigate the never-ending flow of information to create real insight. This topic was directly addressed at Temple University’s first Big Data Conference, hosted by the Fox School of Business. Seventeen speakers from the retail, pharmaceutical, technology, aerospace, insurance, education, consulting, and public sectors shared stories, examples, and best practices on Big Data. This report summarizes their insights, highlighting several illustrative use cases from Chartis, Merck, and Accenture. The report also presents several key takeaways as well as a list of “Do’s and Don’ts” for organizations looking to get started with big data..

The Business Value of Big Data

David Schuff, Temple University

Larry Dignan, ZDNet

Paul A. Pavlou, Temple University

Suja Chandrasekaren, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Clark Frogley, Chartis Global Investigative Services

Adrian Gardner, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

James Golden, Accenture

William Stolte, Merck

March 2013

While big data has received great attention, the question of how to create value remains open. What remains to be seen is whether companies will be able to navigate the never-ending flow of information to create real insight. This topic was directly addressed at Temple University’s first Big Data Conference, hosted by the Fox School of Business. Seventeen speakers from the retail, pharmaceutical, technology, aerospace, insurance, education, consulting, and public sectors shared stories, examples, and best practices on Big Data. This report summarizes their insights, highlighting several illustrative use cases from Chartis, Merck, and Accenture. The report also presents several key takeaways as well as a list of “Do’s and Don’ts” for organizations looking to get started with big data.

Big data and the analytics techniques that go with it is likely to recast industries and ultimately separate the winners from the losers.

Global IDs joins IBIT

Global IDs, founded in 2001, is the newest member of the Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT). Global IDs mission is to develop agent-based integration solutions that can accomplish integration across hundreds of systems. The company created the world’s first data integration software that employs intelligent mobile agents for large-scale integration tasks. Their solutions make it possible for large global companies to address the integration tasks that are required to improve business performance analysis.

Dr. Arka Mukherjee, CEO will represent Global IDs in Fox IBIT activities.

Learn more about Global IDs at http://globalids.com/