MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

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While organizations generally recognize data’s potential to drive business value, many still struggle to realize substantial financial returns from their data monetization strategies. Beyond selecting a strategy, we identified a more critica…

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Quantum technology maturation incentivizes investment to uncover new applications by leading global enterprises. These enterprises aspire to harness properties of quantum mechanics to deliver more secure, more efficient, and more accurate an…

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There are four distinct pathways to becoming future ready. Companies can become future ready on any of the pathways, and even pursue multiple pathways so long as they are effectively coordinated. Success requires vision, planning, a common l…

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Today, information technology is everywhere in the organization. Our interviews with 40 CIOs of global organization pointed to six forces, primarily the proliferation of AI and the blurring of lines between IT and the business, that are driv…

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Sustainability is becoming an important concern for companies today, driven by demands to reduce carbon emissions. Digital technologies help companies track and reduce emissions in three areas: Green IT, Green Products, and Green Offerings. …

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Sustainability is a cost of doing business for many companies today—but it is also an opportunity for creating value. Companies only achieve value, however, by embedding sustainability goals into company strategy and then developing capabili…

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Sustainability is a cost of doing business for many companies today—but it is also an opportunity for creating value. Companies only achieve value, however, by embedding sustainability goals into company strategy and then developing capabili…

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Sustainability is a cost of doing business for many companies today—but it is also an opportunity for creating value. Companies only achieve value, however, by embedding sustainability goals into company strategy and then developing capabili…

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With so much excitement and hype around AI, we pursued research that would help leaders make sense of the chaos and understand how enterprises create value with AI. This briefing describes the MIT CISR Enterprise AI Maturity model, which dep…

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With so much excitement and hype around AI, we pursued research that would help leaders make sense of the chaos and understand how enterprises create value with AI. This briefing describes the MIT CISR Enterprise AI Maturity model, which dep…

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With so much excitement and hype around AI, we pursued research that would help leaders make sense of the chaos and understand how enterprises create value with AI. This briefing describes the MIT CISR Enterprise AI Maturity model, which dep…

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In a global study, we found that businesses operating more in real time performed well above their peers on both margin and growth. These more real-time businesses (RTBs) used trusted data to enable faster decisions to operate and adjust the…