MIT CISR

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's August 2018 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Weill and Nick van der Meulen. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2018_0801_PathwaysExplosions_WeillVanderMeulenWoerner. Abstract: Many companies plan to achieve breakthrough performance via digitally enabled business transformation. They are now in the middl...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's June 2018 research briefing, which was authored by Jeanne Ross, Martin Mocker, and Cynthia Beath. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2018_0601_BuildingBlocks_RossMockerBeath. Abstract: Established companies face daunting changes as they attempt to introduce digitally inspired customer value propositions. MIT CISR research...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's October 2020 research briefing, which was authored by Barb Wixom, Ina Sebastian, and Robert Gregory. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2020_1001_DataSharing_WixomSebastianGregory. Abstract: MIT CISR research has found that interorganizational data sharing is a top concern of companies; leaders often find data sharing cos...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's July 2020 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Weill and Michael Harte. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2020_0701_Replatforming_WeillWoernerHarte. Abstract: Leaders are preparing their enterprises to be Future Ready. Whichever pathways are followed, there is typically a technology hurdle: the systems, da...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's January 2020 research briefing, which was authored by Nick van der Meulen and Kristine Dery. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2020_0101_PathwaysEX_MeulenDery. Abstract: MIT CISR research has shown that senior leaders expect that digital transformation efforts will significantly affect 67 percent of employees. After all,...

Barb Wixom reads MIT CISR's August 2023 research briefing, which she co-authored with Cynthia Beath and Leslie Owens. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0801_DataMonetization_WixomBeathOwens. Abstract: Our forthcoming book, Data is Everybody’s Business: The Fundamentals of Data Monetization, is mainly about how to create value from data, but for data...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's July 2023 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Weill. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0701_UnlockingValue_WeillWoerner. Abstract:The top-performing companies on growth in our MIT CISR study used four distinct organizational levers to unlock value. We found that the companies in the top quartile of e...

Ina Sebastian reads MIT CISR's June 2023 research briefing, which she co-authored with Thomas Haskamp and Nils Fonstad. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0601_DigitalTransformationMomentum_SebastianHaskampFonstad. MIT CISR research suggests that digital business transformations may be beginning to stall. In 2020, companies reported their transformati...

Randy Bradley reads MIT CISR's May 2023 research briefing, which he co-authored with Barb Wixom and Cynthia Beath. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0501_InternalDataSharing_BradleyWixomBeath. Organizations with advanced internal data sharing—the ability to easily exchange data assets enterprise-wide—benefit from greater data monetization returns and...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's April 2023 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Weill and Jan Brecht. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0401_SpeedandInnovation_WeillBrechtWoerner. Achieving speed in its own in business doesn’t differentiate much. In this briefing, we identify four drivers of the combination of speed and innovation a...

Gayan Benedict reads MIT CISR's Match 2023 research briefing, which he co-authored with Ina Sebastian and Stephanie Woerner. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0301_AdoptingBlockchain_BenedictSebastianWoerner. Abstract: Compelling use cases for technologies enabling Web3 are accumulating. In a 2022 MIT CISR survey, companies’ effectiveness at deployin...

Alan Thorogood reads MIT CISR's February 2023 research briefing, which he co-authored with Peter Reynolds. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0201_GrowingwithxTechs_ThorogoodReynolds. Abstract: Increasingly, large organizations are partnering with xTechs to supercharge their digital transformation. This is a symbiotic relationship: an xTech brings spe...

Nick van der Meulen. the author of MIT CISR's January 2023 research briefing, reads the briefing in this podcast. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2023_0101_DecentralizedDecisionMaking_VanderMeulen. Abstract: Drawing on MIT CISR survey data, this research briefing describes how the extent to which an organization distributes operational decision rights t...

Nils Fonstad reads MIT CISR's December 2022 research briefing, which he co-authored with Martin Mocker and Jukka Salonen. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_1201_ScalingatScaleRepsol_FonstadMockerSalonen. Abstract: This research briefing describes the organizational capability of scaling at scale, which we define as enabling multiple digital innovatio...

Cynthia Beath reads MIT CISR's November 2022 research briefing, which she co-authored with Barbara Wixom. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_1101_LiquidDataAssets_WixomBeath. Abstract: A liquid data asset is a cohesive set of data that a company has made accurate, available, combinable, relevant, secure, and readily usable for future value creation. H...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's October 2022 research briefing, which she co-authored with Ina Sebastian and Peter Weill. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/five-actions-leaders-must-get-right-get-future-ready. Abstract: In our recently published book, Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value, we identified five actions comprising the...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's September 2022 research briefing, which she co-authored with Ina Sebastian and Peter Weill. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_0901_TenCapabilities_WoernerSebastianWeill. Abstract: Saddled with legacy systems, complex processes, and siloed data, many firms have begun digital business transformations to improve custom...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's August 2022 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Reynolds, Michael Harte, and Peter Weill. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_0801_ExplainingReplatforming_WoernerReynoldsHarteWeill. Abstract: Enterprises today often replatform as part of their efforts to become Future Ready because the state of their e...

Ida Someh reads MIT CISR's July 2022 research briefing, which she co-authored with Barb Wixom and Cynthia Beath. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_0701_AIX_SomehWixomBeath. Abstract: Four characteristics of AI—unproven value, model opacity, model drift, and mindless application—make it challenging to get stakeholders to trust AI solutions. As a resul...

Barb Wixom reads MIT CISR's June 2022 research briefing, which she co-authored with Ida Someh and Cynthia Beath. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_0601_AdvancedAICapabilities_WixomSomehBeath. Abstract: MIT CISR research identified that advanced levels of five data monetization capabilities –data science, data management, data platform, customer under...

Ina Sebastian reads MIT CISR's May 2022 research briefing, which she co-authored with Jody Hoffer Gittell. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_0501_RelationalEcosystems_SebastianGittell. Abstract: Increasingly, companies partner across industries and sectors in new ways to solve complex challenges with innovative digital solutions. But the leaders of s...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's April 2022 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Weill and Andrea Patricia Diaz Baquero. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_0401_MultiplePathways_WoernerWeillDiazBaquero. Abstract: In our research, executives we talked with at many large companies noted that a pathway well-suited to one business unit ma...

Nils Fonstad reads MIT CISR's March 2022 research briefing, which he co-authored with Martin Mocker. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_0301_ThreeLearningImperatives_FonstadMocker. Abstract: To generate greater value faster from digital innovation, many companies are increasing how much they learn from their own innovation efforts. However, in many co...

Nick van der Meulen reads MIT CISR's February 2022 research briefing, which he co-authored with John Mooney and Cynthia Beath. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_0201_Multicapping_VanderMeulenMooneyBeath. Abstract: Creating a distinct digital unit or organization can help a company to recruit talent with specialized digital skills. Free from corporate...

Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's January 2022 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Weill. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2022_0101_Dashboarding_WeillWoerner. Abstract: 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 measur...