DIF Project

Transplantability and Tailoring of Enterprise Systems

Michael Bradshaw, Senior Vice President, Global Practice Leader for Applications, Data and AI, Kyndryl, an IBIT partner, is collaborating with IBIT on a research project to rethink organizational enterprise systems strategy and propose new management concepts. The IBIT team includes Munir Mandviwalla and Amrit Tiwana, Professor, University of Georgia.

The project is focused on important questions about systems strategy, evolution, and value. The results include a framework to assess the opportunity and risks of generating business value over time from enterprise systems.

Fanalli – Fair-priced tickets for true fans

The Fanalli platform ensures that genuine fans can access concert tickets at fair prices. Rhea Mohite, Management student, recognized that ticket bots inflate prices, depriving fans of fair prices: “Fanalli unlocks the power of fandom to create an enjoyable concert ticket buying experience.”

DIF Role

Prototype a mobile platform, that combines real-time user data from music platforms like Spotify and creating a loyalty based ticket buying experience.

Project Founders

Rhea Mohite
*Management Student*
*Fox School of Business*

DIF Consultant

Ayush Gupta
*Computer and Information sciences (CIS) student*

Cole Roberts
*Computer and Information sciences (CIS) student*

DIF Awards

Ayush Gupta, Recipient of the Fall 2024 Fadem Endowed Scholarship

Impact

“The project has allowed me to refine the skills I acquired as a Management Information Systems (MIS) major including building an application and starting a business.” Cole Roberts

“I enjoy learning new programming languages and getting a glimpse into the dynamics of working in industry and startups.” Ayush Gupta

Manoj Chacko managed this project for DIF

PRO Platform receives Patent

“System and Method for Quantifying Professional Development” – U.S. Patent No. 11989679 was issued May 21, 2024 listing the IBIT and DIF team of Munir Mandviwalla, Manoj Chacko, and Laurel Miller as inventors.

The patent is on how the PRO platform structures, motivates, and measures student and employee development in universities and corporations. PRO develops students, a goal that all universities have but few have found a way to motivate and systemize beyond course work and GPA. See: “A System to Structure, Measure, and Improve Student Development,” IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

PRO is housed in IBIT’s Digital Innovation Foundry (DIF), which applies Design Science Research. PRO was the first DIF project, serves as DIF’s anchor tenant, and led to the DIF endowment.

PRO Community, LLC is a 2020 spin-off co-founded by the patent inventors and Niraj Patel with support from Steve Nappi and Niraj Muni in Temple’s Office of Technology Commercialization and Business Development.

San Jose State University’s School of Information Systems and Technology, is the first licensee with more than 2000 student users since 2018. Temple’s Kornberg School of Dentistry, led by Dean Amid Ismail signed on in 2022. University of Scranton’s Kania School of Management led by Dean Mark Higgins and Associate Dean Murli Rajan just signed on.

Earlier versions prior to PRO evolving into a complete product were licensed by Scholastic Corporation, Georgia State University, Loyola University Maryland, and KIPP Philadelphia Schools.

PRO started in Temple University’s Management Information Systems (MIS) department in 2008. Temple MIS is the living lab for the platform, which has impacted more than 4,000 MIS graduates.

Mitchel Zilbershteyn receives scholarship to explore digital innovation

Mitchel Zilbershteyn received the Persson-Barbour Endowed Scholarship in fall 2023 to explore digital innovation.

Mitchel is currently working on a Generative AI prototype using ChatGPT to create a guide for MIS students. The guide focuses on the Temple Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the Temple MIS PRO points program. It enables students to ask relevant questions such as how to earn PRO points and how to maximize their PRO point earning activities.

Previously Mitchel worked on a DIF project to envision use-cases for no-code metaverse development platform.

Kuaay – Digitally transforming peer-to-peer car buying and selling

Kuaay is a digital C2C car sales tool designed to facilitate transactions between private-party used car buyers and sellers. Founded by Yousif Memon (CST ’17), whose passion for cars has transformed into an innovative app, Kuaay is revolutionizing peer-to-peer automobile purchasing. Along with Keenan Hawekotte, Yousif won a competition for their pitch, which evolved into Kuaay – a platform that simplifies the car buying process for individuals.