Staff Profile:

Name:

Dr. Sharm Manwani

Role:

Associate Professor of Information Management, Program Director, Subject Leader CIO Elective

School:

Projects, Processes and Systems

Academic Profile:

DBA, MBA, M.Sc, FBCS

Areas of Expertise:

Strategy, IT Management, Global IT, Business Processes, Information Management, IT Capability & Leadership, Programme Management, ERP, IT-enabled Business Change

Blog: http://computingblogs.typepad.com/sharm_manwani

Professional Expertise:

Dr Sharm Manwani held European IT Director positions at two leading multinationals while obtaining his MBA and Doctorate at Henley. During this period he led a number of international change programmes supporting mergers, restructuring, business process redesign and key account management. In 2000, he joined the faculty at Henley to research, mentor, and lecture in Information Management. He has presented at a number of academic and business conferences, and consults with major companies on IT Leadership, Information Management and IT-Enabled Business Change. With regard to professional activities, Sharm is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and is on the Executive Board of the BCS IT Professionalism programme. He is also on the Editorial Board of Computing Business and the Journal of Information Technology Cases.

Research:

Prior to joining Henley, Sharm completed his doctoral research into how IT aligns to and delivers business needs at corporate, group and operating unit levels. This has led to international links and the position of VP, Research for the Global IT Management Association. As co-champion of two Knowledge Management initiatives at Henley, he has published papers on Information Overload and KM Technologies. Sharm is presently conducting primary research into IT Capability & Leadership. Outputs include surveys and case studies on CIO skills and career progression. He has contributed to academic journals winning the Henley Doctoral Research Paper prize and to practitioner publications such as Computer Weekly and Computing Business.

Expert opinion:

IT Leadership issues, Success in IT-enabled Change Programmes, How to re-engineer Business Processes, Information Management and Quality challenges, Investing in Professional Development, Business and IT Skills gaps.

Publications:

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Recent Books
S. Manwani (2008) IT Enabled Business Change: Successful Management, British Computer Society, September 2008

Recent Book Sections
P Palvia, N Baqir, and S. Manwani (2007) Global Information Technology Architecture: Foundations and Organizational Issues, in P. Palvia, S. Palvia, A. Harris (Eds), Managing Global Information Technology: Strategies and Challenges, Ivy League Publishing

S. Manwani and S. Moon (2004) Managing Information Overload. IN E. Truch (Ed.) Leveraging Corporate Knowledge. Aldershot: Gower Publishing Ltd.

Recent Conference Papers
S. Manwani (2009) IT-Enabled Change: A Lifecycle Approach, ICISO, Beijing, May 2009

S. Manwani, R. Beaven (2009) Re-energising Business Change: a Thomson Reuters case study, BAM Conference Sep 2009

S. Manwani, T. O’Leary, B. Shore (2009) The Role of the Sponsor: Stewardship and Leadership, GITMA June 2009

C. Burtscher, S. Manwani, D. Remenyi (2009) Towards a Conceptual Map of IT Governance: A review of current academic and practitioner thinking, UK AIS Conference, March 31st 2009

S. Manwani (2008) Developing an IT-Enabled Change Lifecycle: Theory and Practice”, Paper presented to the GITM Conference in Atlanta, USA, June 2008

S. Manwani, M Fishwick, G Rankin (2007) A Holistic Approach to Information Management: Theory and Practice. ECMLG Conference. Winchester, April

S. Manwani (2006) Business Analyst to CIO, Business Change Forum, 20th October, IOD London

S. Manwani and P. Ives (2006) From IT manager to CIO. ECMLG Conference. Paris, 12-13 July 2006

S. Manwani (2006) Information Management Model and Skills Framework, Information Management Solutions, 28-30 November, London

S. Manwani (2005) Building IT Capability. GITM Conference

S. Manwani (2004) Developing an IT Management Skills Framework. GITM Conference.

S. Manwani (2003) Towards an IT Management Competencies Framework. GITM Conference.

S. Manwani and K. Basu (2002) Emergence of International Networked Organisations: Identification of Factors and the development of a research framework. GITM Conference New York, 2002.

Recent Henley Working Papers
G. Urwin and S. Manwani (2004) Managing Complex I.S. Projects: Case Studies in Multinational Information Systems Implementation. Henley Working Paper, 0401.

Recent Journal Articles
S. Manwani (2010) The Role of the Sponsor in Business Change, International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, Vol. 9, No. 12, pp.167-176

B. Shore, S. Manwani (2009), Editorial Preface: The Financial Crisis On Wall Street: Complexity, Stability, And Information Technology. JGITM, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 2009

S. Manwani, M. Fishwick and G. Rankin (2008) Information Ambidexterity: An Exploratory Case Study of Skills Development, Journal of IT Cases and Applications, Volume 10, Number 3, 2008

S. Manwani (2007) Keeping Both Sides Happy (Role of the Project Sponsor), Computing Business, Feb 2007.

S. Manwani (2006) Use your knowledge: CIOs need to focus on developing their skills in information management. Computing Business, 18 May 2006.

S. Manwani and O. K. R.M. (2003) The IT contribution in developing a transnational capability at Electrolux. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 12, pp.112-128.

S. Manwani (2002) Global IT Architecture: Who Calls the Tune. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 5 (4), 38-59.

C. van Winkelen, S. Manwani and R. Potter (2002) Is there a gap between the provision and adoption of technology to support effective management? International Journal of Management Literature, Vol 2 (3/4), 211-224.

Recent Magazine Articles
S. Manwani (2009) Anatomy of an IT leader: How to earn the confidence of the board, Computing, October 2009

S. Manwani (2009) Are IT projects suffering in the current economic crisis?, Accountancy Age, March 2009

S. Manwani and S.Quinn (2008) Building Capability, Government Technology, November.

S. Manwani (2008) Enable Change, Business for IT Leaders July.

S. Manwani (2008) How to succeed as an agent of change, Computing, 16 October 2008 .

S. Manwani (2008) IT-enabled change: the knowedge, Computer Weekly, 9-15 September.

S. Manwani (2007) The new information professionals, Conspectus, Feb 2007

S. Manwani (2006) Name of the game, Computing, 23 November

S. Manwani (2005) IT roles expand into business. Computing Business, 17 Nov 2005.

S. Manwani (2005) Managing Information: the skills challenge. Computer Weekly.

S. Manwani (2005) Strategy clinic: How do I fit in with the new IT finance group? Embrace the new approach and achieve dual reporting. Computer Weekly, 6th December 2005.

S. Manwani (2003) Dealing with E-Mail Overload. The Business Communicator. 7.

Recent Others
S. Manwani (2008) Expert view in Computer Weekly, How do you map out and research the IT estate of an acquisition target?, August 2008

S. Manwani (2008) Expert view in Computer Weekly, How much emphasis should I put on green IT?, October 2008

S. Manwani (2008) Expert view in Computing Business, How can chief information officers use external service provision to boost business?, June 2008

S. Manwani (2008) Expert view in Computing Business, Will thinking about IT's brand help CIOs improve the function's organisational standing? October 2008

S. Manwani (2008) Making eBay work for your business, Sunday Telegraph, Nov 2008.

S. Manwani (2007) Expert view in Computer Weekly, How do you map out and research the IT estate of an acquisition target?, October 2007

S. Manwani (2007) Expert view in Computing Business, How important is innovation to the IT Department, June 2007

S. Manwani (2007) Expert view in Computer Weekly, How to get customer satisfaction with an outsourced IT helpdesk, December 2007

S. Manwani (2007) Expert view in Computer Weekly, How to turn compliance into an opportunity to improve processes, March 2007

S. Manwani (2007) Expert view in Computing Business, Is it the end of Computer Science?, October 2007

S. Manwani (2007) Expert view in Computer Weekly, Strategy clinic: getting a supplier to agree to a global corporate deal, August 2007

S. Manwani (2007) Expert view in Computing Business, Where next for the CIO, September 2007