MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

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Transforming businesses for digital has proven to deliver great value for customers and stakeholders, but it takes time, and it is easy to lose momentum. Our research shows that high performing firms keep their “foot on the peddle” by invest…

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Peter presented a preview of his forthcoming book, co-authored with Stephanie Woerner and Ina Sebastian, entitled Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value. He focused on the lessons learned in how firms create and then capt…

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For 2022, what are the most important capabilities you need to develop further in your enterprise? Who owns responsibility for managing digital in your enterprise? What’s been your most successful digital initiative in the last 12 months? In…

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In new MIT CISR research we studied how top performing firms solved their organization’s Rubik’s Cube challenge—simultaneously achieving customer responsiveness, sharing services, reusing modular capability, and commercializing new services….

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In 2021, Microsoft was a $168 billion technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company employed 190,000 people who operated out of more than six hundred office buildings worldwide. This vignette describes how Microsoft us…

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To generate greater value faster from digital innovation, many companies are increasing how much they learn from their own innovation efforts. However, in many companies, these changes are limited to one stakeholder group: innovation teams. …

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To generate greater value faster from digital innovation, many companies are increasing how much they learn from their own innovation efforts. However, in many companies, these changes are limited to one stakeholder group: innovation teams. …

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Creating a distinct digital unit or organization can help a company to recruit talent with specialized digital skills. Free from corporate legacy and with the decision rights to operate as a startup, such digital entities can disrupt the sta…

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Creating a distinct digital unit or organization can help a company to recruit talent with specialized digital skills. Free from corporate legacy and with the decision rights to operate as a startup, such digital entities can disrupt the sta…

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In a digital business transformation, knowing where you are is as important as knowing where you want to go. To know where you are requires two important types of measures: those that indicate transformation success, such as progress and val…

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In a digital business transformation, knowing where you are is as important as knowing where you want to go. To know where you are requires two important types of measures: those that indicate transformation success, such as progress and val…

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Since 2019, MIT CISR has investigated fifty-two AI solutions to learn about AI scaling: growing the value created by both a core trained model and recontextualized adaptations of the model. This research has identified that scaling up happen…