In 2016, the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) investigated how companies are generating business value with the Internet of Things (IoT). In the first phase of this research (Q1–2 2016), we interviewed executives at ten large companies across nine industries to...

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...

This paper defines four basic business models based on what asset rights are sold (Creators, Distributors, Landlords and Brokers) and four variations of each based on what type of assets are involved (Financial, Physical, Intangible, and Human). Using this framework, we classified the business...