Peter Weill

Peter Weill is a world-renowned strategic thinker, acclaimed author, and effervescent speaker who inspires and captivates top executives and boards—from Microsoft, SAP and IBM to Schneider Electric, ANZ Bank and QBE—with evidence-based insights on how to thrive in the digital era and create exceptional enterprise value. Peter is a faculty member of the MIT Sloan School of Management serving as Senior Research Scientist and Chairman at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). He is also a Senior Advisor to Insight Partners, the largest venture capital firm investing in software companies.

What differentiates Peter is his forward-thinking and approach to research, which is grounded in rigorous statistical methods, data, and empirical evidence from working directly with digital leaders, executives, and boards to develop insights. His work explores future trends, such as digital business models, pathways to future ready, real-time business, IT investment portfolios and AI maturity models, to help organizations maintain a competitive edge. Peter passionately brings his research to life, vividly illustrating what top-performing companies do differently through motivating case studies.

Peter has delivered thousands of impactful keynotes, presentations and interactive workshops to Boards and Executive Committees, including co-designing and presenting at the Microsoft CEO Summit hosted by Bill Gates and Satya Nadella for 12 years. He is the author of 10 award-winning and best-selling business books, 100+ MIT CISR research briefings, and dozens of thought-provoking podcasts and articles featured in Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Directors & Boards, Forbes, Diligent’s Inside America’s Boardrooms, MIT Sloan Management Review, The European Business Review, and The Wall Street Journal.

Peter has also received numerous awards over the years, including Thinkers50 recognition for his distinguished achievement in management thinking, ISACA Chair’s Award, ISACA Global Achievement Award for his longstanding contributions and exceptional impact on the business technology profession, the MIT Sloan “Excellence in Teaching Award,” the Case Centre Award for best Case Study, “Rewiring the Enterprise for Digital Innovation: The Case of DBS Bank”, the International Center for Information Technologies award for the best doctoral thesis globally in Information Systems, and by Ziff Davis as one of the most influential people in IT and the highest ranked academic.

Before joining MIT, Peter was Professor and Foundation Chair of Management in Information Systems and a member of the Board of Directors at the Melbourne Business School at the University of Melbourne. Peter earned a BE Industrial Engineering (Hons), MBA with Distinction from University of Melbourne, and MPhil and PhD from the Stern School of Business at New York University.