Although IT portfolio management has been a best practice for some time, many companies are still getting returns from IT investments that are below their potential. New studies show that a measureable premium can be gained by implementing a set of interlocking business practices and processes,...

Information technology is major investment for most enterprises and constitutes a portfolio of investments. Just like any other investment portfolio, the IT portfolio must be balanced to achieve alignment with business strategy and the desired combination of short and long term pay off. This...

During the period of 2000 to 2006 MIT CISR has conducted several research projects on IT Portfolios, IT Savvy and firm performance. Just as investors have portfolios of financial investments to address their multiple investment objectives, firms have portfolios of information technology (IT)...

Managing the IT Portfolio (Update Circa 2003) (with Sinan Aral), Vol. III, No. 1C, March 2003. Introduces the MIT CISR IT Portfolio framework with four IT asset classes and provides benchmarks for 2001 and 1993-97. "Managing the IT Portfolio: Returns from the Different IT Asset Classes" (with...

PAE Team’s Objectives Ø Create a survey instrument toassess the impact of technology intervention in rural India ØAdvise on potential applications for village-level Internet terminalsThe aim of the Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) project is toimprove the lives of individuals in poor...

We study the fine-grained relationships among information flows, IT use,and individual information-worker productivity, by analyzing work at amidsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level andindividual-level performance using: (1) direct observation of over125,000 e-mail...