Professor Sharm Manwani
Business, Informatics, Systems and Accounting
Executive Professor of IT Leadership
Corporate Programme Director
Professor Sharm Manwani teaches and researches business and IT integration covering strategy, architecture and change programmes. During the last five years, he has created and led the Masters in Enterprise Information Management for Deutsche Telekom which has delivered significant organisational benefits and is recognised as best practice. Prior to joining Henley, he held European CIO roles at Diageo and Electrolux while obtaining his MBA and Doctorate at Henley Business School. During this period he led a number of international change programmes driving mergers, restructuring, business process redesign and key account management, enabled by transformation of the IT organisations and architectures. He is a judge for major IT industry awards and has presented at many academic and professional conferences. His book on IT Enabled Business Change: Successful Management supports a BCS qualification.
By area: Business and IT Integration
By industry: Consumer Products
By geography: Europe
Programme Director for Enterprise Information Management (Deutsche Telekom) and Business & Enterprise Architecture (PA)
Manwani, S. (2010) The role of the sponsor in business change. International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management, 9 (12). pp. 167-176. ISSN 1447-9575
Manwani, S., Fishwick, M. and Rankin, G. (2008) Information ambidexterity: an exploratory case study of skills development. Journal of Information Technologies Cases and Applications, 10 (3).
Manwani, S. and O'Keefe, R. (2003) The IT contribution in developing a transnational capability at Electrolux. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 12 (2). pp. 111-128. ISSN 0963-8687
Manwani, S. (2002) Global IT architecture: who calls the tune? Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 5 (4).
Manwani, S. (2008) IT enabled business change: successful management. British Computer Society, Swindon. ISBN 9781902505916
Palvia, P., Baqir, N. and Manwani, S. (2007) Global information technology architecture: foundations and organizational issues. In: Palvia, P., Palvia, S. and Harris, A. (eds.) Global information technology: strategy and challenges. Ivy League Publishing, Marietta, GA. ISBN 0964838249
Manwani, S. and Moon, S. (2004) Managing information overload. In: Truch, E. (ed.) Leveraging corporate knowledge. The Gower Developments in Business Series. Gower, Aldershot, pp. 199-210. ISBN 9780566085765
Manwani, S., O'Leary, T. and Shore, B. (2009) The role of the sponsor: stewardship and leadership. In: GITMA, 14 Jun 2009, Mexico City. (Unpublished)
Manwani, S. (2009) IT-enabled change: a lifecycle approach. In: 11th ICISO (IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference): Information systems in the changing era: theory & practice, 11-12 Apr 2009, Beijing, China.
Manwani, S. and Beaven, R. (2009) Re-energising business change: a Thomson Reuters case study. In: British Academy of Management Conference, 15-17 Sept, Brighton.
Burtscher, C., Manwani, S. and Remenyi, D. (2009) Towards a conceptual map of IT governance: a review of current academic and practitioner thinking. In: UK Academy for Information Systems Conference: Positive Information Systems, 31 Mar - 1 Apr 2009, Oxford, UK. (Paper 15)
Manwani, S. (2008) Developing an IT-enabled change lifecycle: theory and practice. In: Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) Conference, 22-24 June, Atlanta, USA . (Unpublished)
Patrick Fallon - IT Enabled Business Change Dan McAran - Technology Acceptance
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