Sharm Manwani

Sharm Manwani is the Executive Professor of IT and Digital Leadership at Henley. His ongoing research with McKinsey is generating Enterprise Architecture best practices for Digital Transformation. He has many academic and professional publications, winning the Henley Doctoral Research Paper prize for his study of business and IT alignment in multinationals.

As a European CIO at Diageo and Electrolux, Sharm led several international change programmes generating new business and operating models. He utilised this experience to create and direct three successful Business IT Transformation programmes for corporates and consultancies. An invitation followed to advise the European Commission on Digital Leadership education with results presented in workshops across Europe.

Sharm is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a judge for their IT awards. He has presented at many conferences and consults with large organisations on Digital Leadership and Business Transformation. His book on IT Enabled Business Change aligns to a BCS qualification.

Specialisms

• Strategic Alignment & Transformation
• IT & Digital Leadership
• Global IT
• Business Design and EA
• Information Management

Papers:

Shaw, N. and Manwani, S. (2013)Content validation for level of use of feature rich systems: a Delphi study of electronic medical records systems. Information Research, 18 (1). 558. ISSN 1368-1613 (Shaw, N. & Manwani, S. (2013). Content validation for level of use of feature rich systems: a Delphi study of electronic medical records systems. Information Research, 18(1) paper 558. [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/18-1/paper558.html])

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).

Books:

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

Conference:

McAran, D and Manwani, S (2014),  A Gestalt Generated from Grounded Theory Concerning Intuition in IS Research, 12th European Conference on Research Methods in Business and Management, June 2014, London, UK.

Towards a Framework for Managing IT-Enabled Change, Sourcing and Governance. AUTHOR(S). Pult, Sascha; Manwani, Sharm. PUB. DATE. February 2014.Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on   Management, Leadership and Governance. http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/94947566/towards-framework-managing-it-enabled-change-sourcing-governance

McAran, D. and Manwani, S. (2013)Characterizing intuition in information systems research. In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Research Methods, July 4-7th 2013, Guimaraes, Portugal.

Pult, S. and Manwani, S. (2013)Evaluating the interdependencies between managing business change, IT sourcing and IT governance. In: The International Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance, 7-8 February 2013, Bangkok University, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 387-395.

Balhareth, H., Liu, K. and Manwani, S. (2012)Aligning business and IT from multi-level learning perspectives. In: The 17th UKAIS Conference on Information Systems, 27-28 March 2012, Oxford, UK.

Shaw, N. and Manwani, S. (2011)Extending feature usage: a study of the post-adoption of electronic medical records. In: The 19th European Conference on Information Systems, 9-11 June, 2011, Helsinki, Finland.

Manwani, S. and Carr, R. (2011)Driving service agility: a longitudinal case in Yell. In: ICDS 2011, The Fifth International Conference on Digital Society, 23 - 28 February 2011, Gosier, Guadeloupe, France, pp. 13-17.

The   Agile Governance of Business IT Projects. AUTHOR(S). Manwani, Sharm. PUB. DATE. January 2010. Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on   Management, Leadership and Governance. http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/59389354/agile-governance-business-projects

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)

Research supervision:

Patrick Fallon - IT Enabled Business Change Dan McAran - Technology Acceptance 

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