IBIT News

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 Straub 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.

The Electronic Health Record: Workforce Implications

June 23, 2010
8:30am – 10:30am
Temple University, Philadelphia

The Pennsylvania Partnership for Direct Care Workers (Industry Partnership), Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board, and Temple University Fox School of Business present a highly interactive exclusive discussion forum on EHR led by academic experts and leaders at local healthcare institutions. Specific questions to be addressed include: What will be the impact of the EHR on healthcare delivery and our healthcare workforce? What technology changes will be required to implement the EHR? How does this change impact jobs and organizations?

Panelists

J. Robert Beck, Chief Medical Officer, Chief Academic Officer, Fox Chase Cancer Center
Anthony Luberti, Director, The Center for Biomedical Informatics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Cathy Flite, Assistant Professor, Health Information Management, Temple University

Moderator

Cindy Marselis, Director, Health Information Management, Temple University

Sondra L. Barbour appointed Executive-in-Residence

Sondra L. Barbour, BBA ’85, CIO, Lockheed Martin Corporation, VP, Lockheed Martin Enterprise Business Services has been appointed “Executive in Residence” at the Fox School’s Management Information Systems (MIS) department and the Institute for Business and Information Technology for the 2010 year. Ms. Barbour was selected as Executive in Residence because of her stature in the field and her continued support for the Fox School. As part of the appointment, Ms. Barbour will be spending several days through the year interacting with Fox School MIS students and faculty.

Barbour will be visiting Fox in April 2010 to start the program. “We are fortunate to have Sondra Barbour, one of our most successful and committed alums as our Executive in Residence” said Munir Mandviwalla, associate professor and chair of the management information systems department at the Fox School of Business.

“As a proud Temple and Fox School alum, this opportunity is particularly meaningful,” Barbour said. “I am looking forward to working closely with Fox School MIS students and faculty and contributing to the Temple community, especially given the Fox MIS department’s national stature in information technology (IT) education and research.”

Biography

Sondra L. Barbour
Chief Information Officer, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Vice President, Lockheed Martin Enterprise Business Services

Sondra Barbour was appointed Lockheed Martin Chief Information Officer and Vice President of the Enterprise Business Services organization on February 1, 2008. This organization is responsible for all internal information technology (IT) operations along with the Corporate Shared Services functions across the $41.9 billion Lockheed Martin Corporation. Barbour leads a team of 5,500 IT and service professionals located at Lockheed Martin facilities around the globe.

Prior to this appointment, Barbour was Vice President, Corporate Shared Services, where she provided the strategic and tactical leadership of the Financial Services, Human Resources Services, International Services, Global Supply Chain Management, Energy, Environment, Safety and Health, and Systems and Process Management functions. She has also served as the Vice President of Corporate Internal Audit where her primary responsibility was to provide independent assessments of governance, internal controls and risk management across Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Prior to that position, Barbour served as Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Operations for Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions where she was responsible for the IT, Facilities, Supply Chain, Technical Publications, LM21 and Environment, Health & Safety operations.

Barbour has 24 years of extensive management and technology experience, notably in the design and development of large-scale information systems. Her background includes management roles in engineering, functional and program operations areas for large software development systems.

As a volunteer with Lockheed Martin’s Network of Volunteer Associates, Barbour is committed to supporting the community by volunteering her time and resources. Barbour received a bachelor of business administration degree in Computer Information Sciences and Accounting from Temple University’s Fox School of Business. She is also a graduate of Lockheed Martin’s Program Management Development Program. In 2005, she was honored with the Fox Information Technology Award for Distinguished Alumni.

About Lockheed Martin

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 146,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporation reported 2009 sales of $45.2 billion. For more information, visit www.lockheedmartin.com.

About the Fox School’s Management Information Systems (MIS) department and Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT)

The Fox School’s MIS department offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in information systems and includes more than 600 majors and minors and 12 faculty members. Ranked in the top 10 by The Chronicle of Higher Education and TechRepublic in 2008/2009, the MIS department is celebrating its 10^thanniversary in 2010 as one of the youngest and most successful IT oriented departments in the U.S. The associated Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) connects students and faculty with industry leaders through a membership structure, and provides project and professional development opportunities. For more information, visit community.mis.temple.edu or ibit.temple.edu.

Distinguished Speaker – Lee Green

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.

Lee D. Green

Finding the Market’s Sweet-Spot

Lee D. Green
Worldwide Vice President-Brand and Values Experience
IBM

October 24, 2007

About the event

Innovation is not about new technology. It is about relevance. It is about understanding markets, your customers, opportunities in disguise, and creating compelling experiences. Design methods applied properly can help you excel in all of the above. It can help identify unarticualted needs that can lead to differentiation and business success.

Lee Green, Worldwide Vice President, Brand and Values Experience at IBM will share insights from his 25 years of experience leading efforts to develop innovative products that achieve marketplace success. Learn about IBM’s design methodology, a process that relies heavily on observation and then market and user validation and iteration, and apply this framework to your business to achieve real usiness results.

Biography

Lee Green is the Vice President, Worldwide IBM Brand and Values Experience. He has responsibility for IBM’s worldwide brand and values experience initiatives, brand strategy and identity, design strategy and IBM’s recently launched Design Consulting Services offering for IBM clients. Mr. Green has played a pivotal role in IBM’s re-branding efforts over the last 13 years. His team also leads the corporation’s efforts in the area of “advanced concept design” working closely with IBM Research.

In his career with IBM Lee has held numerous design, communications and management positions. Recently, he has launched IBM Design Consulting Services offering, working in conjunction with IBM’s Engineering and Technology Group and with IBM Global Business Services. This capability provides Design Services Consulting as a collaborative innovation offering to IBM clients. In addition to industrial design and human factors, it provides Design Consulting Services to help IBM clients consider how they can extend new experiences to their customers, utilize design to differentiate their offerings from their competition, and leverage innovative IBM technology to enable new solutions.

Mr. Green has an undergraduate degree in design from Temple University and a master’s degree in communications design from Rochester Institute of Technology. He has published numerous articles and case studies on a variety of design and identity topics. He has also taught design and branding courses at Stanford University, Harvard, MIT, and RIT. In 2004 he was named Rochester Institute of Technology Distinguished Alumni of the Year. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and Advisory Board for the Design Management Institute, and on the Board of Advisors, Suffolk University Business School.

Attendance is free on a space available basis for qualified industry and academic professionals. For more information, please contact ibit@temple.edu.