Biography

Dr. Munir Mandviwalla is Professor of Management Information Systems, Cigna Research Fellow, and Executive Director of the Institute for Business and Information Technology at the Fox School of Business, Temple University.

Mandviwalla has published articles on collaboration, social media, training, peer review, design science, broadband policy, and digital transformation in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Public Administration Review, Communications of the ACM, and others.
His work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), SIM Advanced Practices Council, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Microsoft, CIGNA, Lotus, and others.

Mandviwalla teaches user experience design and systems thinking for MS, EMBA, and MBA programs. He has taught executive education seminars on systems thinking for major firms such as NBCUniversal and QVC.

Mandviwalla founded the Fox School’s MIS department in 2000 and led the department till 2017. The MIS department is now recognized as a leading department worldwide. Mandviwalla has contributed to the field by leading the creation of AIS student chapters, first ever national analysis of jobs in information systems, and the AIS Leadership Excellence Award.

As executive director of the Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT), Mandviwalla engages with industry on knowledge and human capital development through programs such as the Temple IT awards, IT advisory board, IBIT membership, The IBIT Report, and student challenges. In 2019, IBIT inaugurated the Digital Innovation Foundry, whose mission is to generate innovation by assessing, integrating, and prototyping digital technologies in the Digital Innovation Lab. In 2020-21, IBIT started a no-cost digital transformation service for small business and non-profits.

Claremont Graduate University has recognized him with the Alumni Hall of Fame award. He received the Association for Information Systems Award for Outstanding Contribution to Information Systems Education in 2016. MS Digital Innovation in Marketing students selected him as Faculty of the Program in 2016.

Mandviwalla holds a BSc in Systems Engineering from Boston University, MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, and Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the Programs in Information Science at Claremont Graduate University.