Introduction: Creating the Future Ready Firm -- :Four Pathways to Future Ready -- Pathway One: Industrialize first to... -- Pathway Two: Delight customers and... -- Pathway Three: Stairsteps to create incremental value -- Pathway Four: Create a new unit for... -- Leading the Transformation.

What is your digital business model? While many leaders of companies recognize the threat from digital--and the potential opportunity--they lack a common language or a compelling framework to help them assess it and, more importantly, to direct them. They don't know how to think about their...

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...

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...

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...