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Mastering IT Investment Strategy

Wednesday, October 2, 2024, 12:00 – 2:00pm
Temple University

Digital Innovation Foundry Workshop Series

Ever wonder how companies determine the next big Information Technology (IT) investment? It starts by examining performance, peer comparison, and then building a business case. This hands-on workshop will help you learn how companies align their IT spending with strategy and business value, using the Technology Business Management (TBM) framework. The workshop will improve your ability to contribute effectively to digital transformation initiatives by ensuring transparency and driving cost optimization. The workshop will cover key aspects of the TBM framework, including service costing and value measurement, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of how to apply these principles in real-world scenarios.

Workshop Leaders

Dave Woodson
Director
KPMG  
Kim Basile
Kimberly Basile
Chief Information Officer
Kyndryl

Attendance

Space is limited to 20 Temple University students.

Throughout the workshop, students will engage in an in-depth exploration of the TBM framework, learning to categorize data accurately based on TBM, which will enable for an accurate comparison against TBM’s published benchmarks. Through analysis, students will identify the outliers and define a solution to drive down the costs.  Once the students define a solution, they will build an assumption and lever-based business case, which will outline how to take the defined solution, estimate the cost to implement, and the run cost of the service post implementation.    

By the end of the workshop, students will have acquired practical experience in applying the TBM framework to achieve transparency, drive value in IT investments, and craft a business case that effectively communicates the benefits of initiatives to stakeholders.

Laptop required.

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DIF Workshop Series

Great opportunity for Philly startups!

Philly startups! Get noticed, gain feedback, win $20,000 and become eligible for $1 million at the Startup World Cup Pitch Competition of the City of Philadelphia Department of Commerce!

Chris Cera, CEO, Arcweb Technologies, and IBIT board member is the keynote speaker.

IBIT is proud to co-host the competition at Temple on September 18. 2024 in Mitten Hall in partnership with the Temple University Office of the Vice President for Research and the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Institute.

The competition is part of the worldwide Startup World Cup offered by Pegasus Tech Ventures.

The IBIT and Temple community are invited to attend the event to network and see the entries. Registration required. Click here to register.

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.