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Who is leading the world in terms of digitization? Surprisingly, it’s not developed countries. In 2012, we saw a significant flip, with emerging economies now at the front of the pack. Companies in those economies are spending more on digitization, are outperforming, and are faster to market with new offerings than businesses in developed countries. […]

Shadow IT keeps many CIOs awake at night. For years, they’ve been worried about how to rein in renegades. But some CIOs are starting to think differently. They look at what we’ve called shadow IT as just one of many IT resources they orchestrate to address business demands. Adopting a new attitude toward shadow IT […]

Organizations are relying more and more on big data, but what does it mean to be good at this? What are the best practices when it comes to driving value? For answers, we looked at comScore, which has been amassing, analyzing, and selling data for fourteen years. To be sustainable, its data not only has […]

In the digital age, we think that architecture matters even more for the long-term success of organizations. However, when we hear about architecting, it’s often related to IT. The term isn’t very common on the non-IT side of the business, yet architecture impacts the entire company. At MIT CISR, we’ve launched a research project, “Making […]

Jeanne Ross delivered the following tribute to Jack Rockart at a memorial service on March 1. Jack Rockart, co-founder of MIT CISR and its director from 1974–2000, passed away on February 3, 2014. I’m Jeanne Ross, the current director of the Center for Information Systems Research, also known as CISR, at MIT’s Sloan School of […]

Jack Rockart, the beloved co-founder of MIT CISR and its director from 1974–2000, passed away on February 3, 2014. Although Jack had retired from CISR in 2002, he remained active until last year, participating in weekly research staff meetings, attending CISR sponsor events, and counseling researchers on their projects and presentations. His passion for IT […]