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Scaling at Scale: Realizing Big Value from Digital Innovations

In this audio edition of the December 2022 research briefing, learn how companies realize big value from digital innovation by building shared resources that enable hundreds of initiatives to scale their innovation.
By Nils O. Fonstad, Martin Mocker, and Jukka Salonen

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This research briefing describes the organizational capability of scaling at scale, which we define as enabling multiple digital innovation initiatives to realize bottom-line value from their innovation by leveraging shared resources. We illustrate this concept with a case study from global multi-energy company Repsol, which implemented scaling at scale to cultivate a portfolio of more than 450 initiatives and helped over seventy percent of initiatives to reach the scale-up stage. As a result, over five years Repsol realized €800 million of bottom-line value from digital innovations.

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The December 2022 research briefing is read by co-author Nils Fonstad.

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© 2022 MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research, Fonstad, Mocker, and Salonen. MIT CISR Research Briefings are published monthly to update the center’s patrons and sponsors on current research projects.

About the Authors

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Nils O. Fonstad, Research Scientist, MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

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Martin Mocker, Academic Research Fellow, MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and Professor, ESB Business School, Reutlingen University

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Jukka Salonen, MIT CISR Industry Research Fellow, MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

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