IBIT
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The 2023-2024 annual report of the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) is now available to view online or download.
The report highlights our work with nationally recognized industry partners and the IBIT advisory board.
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.
IBIT is pleased to announce the following new cases on digital transformation and innovation, most of which feature our partners and board members.
Munir Mandviwalla, Laurel Miller, and Larry Dignan. Ivey Publishing, August 2023. Available at Harvard Business Publishing, W33549-PDF-ENG.
Atish Banerjea, the chief information officer of Meta Platforms digitally transformed recruitment and enabled remote work for 70,000+ employees worldwide. Learn how Banerjea and his team pivoted Meta’s office-centric culture to remote work by applying Agile MVP principles. The case sets the stage to discuss the future of work, workforce digital transformation, and Agile MVP principles as a management tool.
Larry Dignan, Laurel Miller, and Munir Mandviwalla. Ivey Publishing, February 2023. Available at: Harvard Business Publishing W28560-PDF-ENG.
George Llado, then chief information officer of Alexion co-innovated with startups to rapidly set up a big data analytics platform to increase sales. Learn how Llado’s ‘best athlete’ approach to source talent and vendors is low-cost and agile. The case sets the stage to discuss how firms can achieve success with big data and analytics using co-innovation principles to accelerate implementation.
Munir Mandviwalla, Larry Dignan, Laurel Miller, and Bertrand Guillotin. Ivey Publishing, February 2024. Available at: Harvard Business Publishing, W33454-PDF-ENG
Dinesh Desai and colleagues grew Emtec into a high performing mid-market IT services firm, by creating a unique culture, acquiring firms, and digital co-innovation. The case tells the story of a how a start-up grew through acquisitions and an entrepreneurial cooperative culture in the cut-throat trillion-dollar IT services market. The case also shows how co-innovation enables digital transformation.
Bertrand Guillotin, Theodore L. Hill, Munir Mandviwalla, and Julianne Sellin. Ivey Publishing, September 2023. Available at: Harvard Business Publishing, W33970-PDF-ENG.
The newly appointed CEO of US$19 billion NewCo (Kyndryl), Martin Schroeter, crafted a strategy, recruited leadership, defined a new identity, and brought along 4,600 customers and 90,000 employees of the spun-off managed infrastructure services part of IBM. The case sets the stage to discuss the trade-offs associated with a high-stakes spinoff, and how corporate culture, strategic purpose, and relationships interact in the context of digital transformation and change.
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“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.
