MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

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As part of his session How Should Tech Leaders Spend Their Time?, Peter interviews Gail Evans, Executive Vice President and Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Disney Parks, Experiences and Products. Gail leads a global team of more than…

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MIT CISR’s data sharing research—which was featured in the Spring 2023 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review—identified four areas of capability that organizations must build to effectively engage in strategic data sharing. Organizations tend…

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In recent years, organizations have increasingly provided operational decision rights to cross-functional teams to realize strategic outcomes. To succeed with this approach, organizations don’t need less leadership—they need better leadershi…

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In this session, Peter presents a new MIT CISR study analyzing how tech leaders spend their time across four time buckets, and describes the patterns of tech leader time for top- and bottom-quartile company performance. He compares the time …

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Compelling use cases for technologies enabling Web3 are accumulating. In a 2022 MIT CISR survey, companies’ effectiveness at deploying new technologies such as blockchain was significantly correlated with growth and profitability. Yet only t…

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Compelling use cases for technologies enabling Web3 are accumulating. In a 2022 MIT CISR survey, companies’ effectiveness at deploying new technologies such as blockchain was significantly correlated with growth and profitability. Yet only t…

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As part of his session Becoming Future Ready with Digital Innovation, Nils interviews Hatice Yildirim, Digital Transformation Program Manager at Koç Holding about how she has been scaling FireAId, an AI pilot to predict the riskiest location…

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In recent years, organizations have increasingly relied on decentralized decision-making by cross-functional teams to rapidly sense and respond to changes in their environment. To succeed with this approach, organizations don’t need less lea…

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

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

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In recent years, organizations have increasingly relied on decentralized decision-making by cross-functional teams to rapidly sense and respond to changes in their environment. To succeed with this approach, organizations don’t need less lea…

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Increasingly, the “steps” that companies take to become future ready are digital innovation initiatives. Consequently, companies must ensure that their scarce resources—most notably talent—are allocated to those initiatives with the greatest…