The Center for Design and Innovation hosted THE DESIGNweek challenge – North Broadband on March 14-17, 2011. DESIGNWeek is an annual student competition to transform ideas into actions. The Challenge brings together students from across the University to collaborate across disciplinary lines to create innovative solutions to address some of today’s most challenging urban issues. The Center also hosted the inaugural inciteXchange workshop on March 18, 2011.
IBIT News
Distinguished Speaker – Jack Hughes
The Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology presents the Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring talks by leading professionals on essential business technology topics.
The Changing Nature of Work
Jack Hughes
Founder and Chairman
TopCoder, Inc.
February 10, 2011
About the event
The world of work is rapidly changing. The internet will have profound effects on how companies manage a highly diverse, mobile and gloabl workforce. Management models will undergo shifts to meet these new challenges and opportunities. Managers will need to develop new skill sets, measurement and motivation systems to engage these new models of work. Mr. Hughes will discuss these changes and their effects in the context of TopCoder–the world’s largest competitive software development community.
Biography
In November 2000, Jack Hughes founded TopCoder on the premise that talent and skill are the determinant factors in the quality and utility of software and software has become central to the global economy.
In both his own programming experience and as co-founder and chairman of Tallán Inc., a provider of web-enabled business solutions, Hughes recognized that while successful projects were driven by superior programming skills, the talent was unqualified and largely unrecognzied. TopCoder’s mission is to create objective ratings that place high value on the programming industry’s best and brightest, and build opportunity and community for programmers through ongoing programming tournaments and employer connections. Under Hughes’ tenure as chairman at Tallán Inc., the company was recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in North America four years in a row by consultancy firm Deloitte & Touche and by Inc. Magazine for its outstanding performance. In 2000, CMGI, Inc. acquired a majority ownership of the company.
Hughes holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Boston College. He is director and vice chair of the executive committee and chair of the strategy committee for the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.
Distinguished Speaker – Joe Spagnoletti
The Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology presents the Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring talks by leading professionals on essential business technology topics.
Campbell’s IT Vision and Organizational Impacts
Joseph C. Spagnoletti
Senior Vice President
Chief Information Officer
Campbell Soup Company
October 13, 2010
About the event
The IT function in organizations is rapidly changing. IT roles are changing from technology to process – blurring lines with other functions. IT leader roles are shifting from traditional technology support to business process, portfolio management and change management. Campbell Soup and Joe Spagnoletti are leading the charge into this new much more enhanced and different role for IT in the organization. Learn best practices and change strategies from one of the most forward thinking IT leaders in industry.
Biography
Joseph Spagnoletti leads Campbell’s global information technology function, providing IT strategy to help Campbell meet its business goals. Since he joined Campbell in 1997 as Director-IT, Food Service, Joe has held several positions of increasing responsibility in global sales and marketing, supply chain, and research and development. Most recently, he was Vice President-IT for Campbell North America, where he successfully led several key projects, including the implementation of a trade management system and oversight of North American SAP implementations.
Previously, Joe spent seven years as an Information Technology Director with medical technology company Becton Dickinson, responsible for the medical device and acute care businesses. He began his career developing and implementing financial systems for a New York City software development firm.
Joe earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Albright College. He serves on the Cooper Health System’s Audit/Ethics Committee. In 2004, he was recognized with Campbell’s Influence with Honor leadership award.
Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.
Interdisciplinary Symposium on Decision Neuroscience
The Fox School of Business at Temple University is pleased to announce the Interdisciplinary Symposium on Decision Neuroscience, September 24-26, 2010. The symposium brings together researchers from multiple disciplines including neuroscience, marketing, information systems, psychology, consumer behavior, and economics, to share research findings and to discuss how neuroscience can inform decision making.
The symposium is hosted by the new Center for Neural Decision Making which examines the neurobiological bases of human behavior, preference formation and decision making. Led by Dr. Angelika Dimoka, the center employs functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in combination with traditional behavioral measures to develop models for human decision-making such as online consumer behavior and system use.
Detmar W. Straub appointed Lenfest Distinguished Visiting Professor and IBIT Senior Research Fellow
Detmar W. Straub, Ph.D. has been appointed as the “Lenfest Distinguished Visiting Professor and Institute for Business and Information (IBIT) Senior Research Fellow” at the Fox School of Business at Temple University. Professor Straub is the first appointee in the prestigious ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’ series, which recognizes internationally renowned scholars and engages them with the Fox School. As part of his appointment, Professor Straub will be spending several days every year interacting and working on research projects with Fox faculty and PhD students, offering PhD seminars on research methods, and presenting research projects in the School’s colloquium series. He will also consult the school on various administrative and research issues based on his capacity as the Director of Research and Doctoral Programs at Georgia State University and the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious journal MIS Quarterly. Professor Straub will be visiting Fox on September 24, 2010 for a colloquium presentation at the Management Information Systems (MIS) department, followed by an induction ceremony.
Straub said: “I am honored to be appointed the Lenfess Distinguished Visiting Professor and IBIT Senior Research Fellow at the Fox School at Temple University. This is an exciting opportunity for me to work with Fox faculty and doctoral students on an intensive and ongoing basis. I very much anticipate that in this collaboration, we will make ground-breaking discoveries in information systems and their impacts on businesses.” “We are fortunate to have Professor Detmar Straub, one of the most widely-recognized MIS researcher as our Distinguished Visiting Professor” said M. Moshe Porat, Dean of the Fox School.
Biography
A Regent’s Professor of the University System of Georgia and the J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Georgia State University, Detmar has conducted research in the areas of Net-enhanced organizations (e-Commerce), information security, technological innovation, IS methodological issues, and international IT studies. He holds a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) in MIS from Indiana and a PhD in English from Penn State. He has published 165 plus papers in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Journal of MIS, Journal of AIS, Information & Management, Communications of the AIS, IEEE [PAP] Transactions on Engineering Management, Communications of the ACM, OMEGA, Academy of Management Executive, and Sloan Management Review. Detmar is the Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly, with a term ending in January of 2012. Previously he has served as Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the AIS (JAIS) and DATA BASE. He was also Co-Editor of DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems. Previously, he was Associate Editor for Management Science as well on the editorial board member for a host of other journals. His consultancies with industry have been in the areas of information security, e-Commerce, and technological innovation.
Detmar serves as Director of Research and Doctoral Programs in the Robinson College of Business. He is former VP of Publications for the Association for Information Systems. He was appointed an AIS Fellow in 2005. He is the 2008 winner of the Alumni Distinguished Professor Award at Georgia State University, given annually for high achievement in research, teaching and service in a faculty of 1,050 persons.
