This document outlines 16 steps to building a world class department of management information systems (MIS) over 14 years from 2000 to 2014. It summarizes the key initiatives and achievements in 3 steps:
1) Establishing strategic alliances both internally at the university and externally with industry partners, and fostering a culture of strategic impatience.
2) Developing an epic storytelling narrative to communicate the department's identity and evangelize its mission to students, faculty, and staff.
3) Validating the department's curriculum and resources through partnerships with industry, and positioning the department at the forefront of emerging fields like analytics, innovation, and digital transformation.
Zero to No. 1: Six steps to building a world class department
1. Zero to No. 16 steps to building a world class department
MUNIR MANDVIWALLA
Associate Professor and Chair of MIS
Executive Director, Institute for Business & Information Technology
Fox School of Business, Temple University
KEYNOTE
9th Annual Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference
May 15-16, 2014
3. 2000 MIS
founded
Inherit BBA,
MS, and
MBA
New
eBusiness
Institute
1st
Executive
Breakfast
2001 1st IT
awards
PhD
program
1st Research
Workshop
2002 MS in MIS
IT
competition
eBI fellows
2003 MIS minor
Speaker
series
Server lab GE grant
2004
IT
scholarship
fund
Newsletter
4. 2005 First PhD
graduate
Advisory
board
2006 Student
organization
Revised
BBA in MIS
20th
executive
breakfast
Industry
projects
2007 MBA Intro
Institute for
Business &
Information
Technology
Fox IT
symposium
IBIT
Corporate
Members
Computer
literacy
2008 UG Intro
Top 10
Chronicle of
Higher
Education
Top 10
TechRepublic
Joint minor
–innovation
Community
platform
2009 The IBIT
Report
MS in Health
Informatics
Alter Hall
Inaugural AIS
student
conference
First AIS
student
chapter
2010 No. 1
Research
AIS
outstanding
chapter
Tenth IT
awards
Executive-in-
Residence
Center for
Neural Decision
Making
5. 2011-a No. 3
Research
AIS
outstanding
chapter
Digital
Marketing
2011-b
Center for
Design +
Innovation
Fox Design
Week
$50K
scholarship
2012-1 No. 1
Research
Top 20
US News
BBA MIS
Top 25
US News
MBA ITM
Business
Analytics
Minor
2012-2 100%
placement
AIS
outstanding
chapter
MS IT
auditing &
cyber-sec
IT career
fair
Big Data
conference
2013 No. 1
Research
AIS
chapter-of-
the-year
Temple
Analytics
Challenge
100%
placement
IS Job Index
2014
Digital
Business
Innovation
conference
Gened data
science
course
Top 15
US News
BBA MIS
$50K board
scholarship
MS Digital
Innovation
Marketing
(online)
11. Storytelling
The epic of Pabuji is an oral epic in the Rajasthani language that tells of the deeds of the folk hero-deity Pabuji Rathor, who lived in the 14th century
3 Communicate
Evangelize