Faculty
Stephanie L. Woerner is Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of MIT CISR. She is a renowned researcher and speaker, and coauthor of Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value and What's Your Digital Business Model? Six Questions to Help You Build the Next-Generation Enterprise, both published by Harvard Business Review Press.
Stephanie studies how companies use technology and data to create more effective business models as well as how they manage the associated organizational change and governance and strategy implications. She has a passion for measuring hard-to-assess digital factors and linking them to firm performance.
Stephanie’s research has appeared in such outlets as MIT Sloan Management Review, CNBC, Forbes, Chief Executive, and CIO.
Stephanie has done presentations and workshops for top management teams and boards of large global firms, been a subject matter expert for The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council, and moderated a number of panels, including one on the future of financial services for the Federal Reserve.
Featured Publication
Future Ready: The Four Pathways to Capturing Digital Value.Woerner, Stephanie L., Peter Weill, and Ina M. Sebastian. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2022.
Stephanie Woerner, Peter Reynolds, Michael Harte, and Peter Weill. MIT CISR Research Briefing XXII-8. Cambridge, MA: August 2022.
Diaz Baquero, Andrea Patricia and Stephanie L. Woerner, MIT Sloan Working Paper 6785-22. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, April 2022.
Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner. MIT CISR Research Briefing XXII-1. Cambridge, MA: January 2022.
Weill, Peter, Stephanie Woerner, and Aman M. Shah. MIT Sloan Management Review, March 3, 2021.
Peter Weill, Stephanie Woerner, and Andrea Patricia Diaz Baquero. MIT CISR Research Briefing Vol. XXI-1. Cambridge, MA: January 2021.
With carbon emissions reduction a top concern, tech leaders are building capabilities that help companies reduce their own emissions and those of suppliers and customers.
Top tech leaders are spending less time collaborating with peers and more time meeting customers and developing innovations.
"No organization can thrive alone, and partnerships with xTechs present large companies with opportunities to innovate quickly."
"We found that a company must perform organisational surgery, often reorganising many times to create [new digital value]."
Addressing the challenges of businesses transformation, "Future Ready" serves as a transformation playbook.
"Transforming a company to succeed in the digital economy requires a vision and a playbook to help leaders deliver on that vision."
In this period of digital disruption, businesses focused narrowly on value chains are at a disadvantage. Next-generation enterprises need to think more broadly about their business ecosystems, leverage digitization strategy to understand their customers better, and establish options for future success. Drawing on cutting-edge research, this course engages participants in a framework for seizing on all the above.
The Executive Program in General Management (EPGM) is a multi-modular general management and leadership program that introduces mid-career managers and leaders to the latest in MIT thought leadership on innovation, strategy, decision-making, and leadership.
