MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

Abstract:In this session summary, Alan explains how successful large organizations grow by collaborating with small digital companies.

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Publication date: 2023-03-08

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Increasingly, large organizations are partnering with xTechs to supercharge their digital transformation. This is a symbiotic relationship: an xTech brings speed, innovation, and lower cost because xTechs don’t face the process, scale, and g…

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Increasingly, large organizations are partnering with xTechs to supercharge their digital transformation. This is a symbiotic relationship: an xTech brings speed, innovation, and lower cost because xTechs don’t face the process, scale, and g…

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Beginning in 1990, privately held information solutions provider Healthcare IQ competed in the data analytics industry, helping hospitals to manage and make sense of their data. Throughout the 2010s, Healthcare IQ evolved its technical resou…

Abstract:Drawing on MIT CISR survey data, this research briefing describes how the extent to which an organization distributes operational decision rights to a majority of its teams can improve the speed at which the organization is able to sense and …

Abstract:Drawing on MIT CISR survey data, this research briefing describes how the extent to which an organization distributes operational decision rights to a majority of its teams can improve the speed at which the organization is able to sense and …

Abstract:This research briefing describes the organizational capability of scaling at scale, which we define as enabling multiple digital innovation initiatives to realize bottom-line value from their innovation by leveraging shared resources. We illu…

Abstract:For an organization to generate measurable strategic value from a portfolio of digital innovation initiatives, most of those initiatives must progress from developing a minimum-viable product into a scaling-up phase. In this session, accompli…

Abstract:This research briefing describes the organizational capability of scaling at scale, which we define as enabling multiple digital innovation initiatives to realize bottom-line value from their innovation by leveraging shared resources. We illu…

Abstract:To create bottom-line value from digital, many organizations need to do some kind of organizational surgery; these organizations are just not well designed for the digital era. The organizational changes remove organizational complexity and h…

Abstract:Partnering with xTechs offers new customer experiences or lower-cost operations. But xTechs want to scale quickly, while a large organization has to carefully manage its brand and integration plus regulatory and cyber risks. In this session s…

Abstract:For decades, companies have thought of themselves as operating in industries such as banking, retail, shipping, automotive, and energy. But most customers have needs and problems, often cross-industry, that must be solved; for example, busine…