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MIT CISR helps executives meet the challenge of leading increasingly digital and data-driven organizations. MIT CISR research scientists and collaborators from around the world produce rigorous academic research using a variety of methods. The relevance of the research is ensured by the active participation of member organizations from a range of industries. Insights are disseminated through research publications and events.
In 2025, MIT CISR introduced a business model framework for the AI era. Given the rapid pace of AI development and its potential to reinvent enterprises, this research will continue our exploration of how business models are likely to evolve over the next five years and beyond.
This project is a continuation of MIT CISR's 2025 research project "What's Your AI-Enabled Business Model?"
Enterprises increasingly deploy agentic AI for decisions ranging from highly structured operational choices to strategic judgments. Building on an AI decision rights matrix (decision impact × decision structure) we developed in 2025, in this project we will create a framework of agentic decision contexts, governance design principles, and evidence of performance outcomes.
What constitutes a digital colleague, and how should digital colleagues be managed? In this project, we will explore how companies are integrating digital colleagues into their work, and how this is changing company performance, processes, relationships, and structure.
This project seeks to learn how next-generation data practices can drive organizational growth, efficiency, and resilience. We will assess how technological innovations address challenges in emergent data management requirements. Beyond technology, the research will consider what leadership models, skills, and investment priorities are required when data management must enable phenomena like AI, robotics, and quantum computing.
In 2025, MIT CISR research examined how knowledge workers integrate AI into their work and the implications for the employee experience. In this year's project, we will study how organizations and employees are closing the gap between rapidly changing skill requirements and workforce readiness.
This project is a continuation of MIT CISR's 2025 research project "Work Reworked: Succeeding with Human-AI Collaboration."
The IT function is critical to capturing the business value of AI investments, yet that value remains elusive. IT organizations are uniquely positioned to address this challenge: they are experienced in managing organizational change and in enabling business initiatives. Building on the Enterprise IT Operating Models framework we developed in 2025, in this study we will specifically look at AI adoption in each of the four models we described.
This project is a continuation of MIT CISR's 2025 research project "The IT Operating Model of the Future."
MIT CISR research is funded by member organizations that support our work and participate in our consortium.
MIT CISR helps executives meet the challenge of leading increasingly digital and data-driven organizations. We provide insights on how organizations effectively realize value from approaches such as digital business transformation, data monetization, business ecosystems, and the digital workplace. Founded in 1974 and grounded in MIT’s tradition of combining academic knowledge and practical purpose, we work directly with digital leaders, executives, and boards to develop our insights. Our research is funded by member organizations that support our work and participate in our consortium.