The MIT Center for Digital Business A Partnership in Research
The MIT Sloan School of Management created the MIT Center for Digital Business as a research partnership with industry to provide leadership for faculty, students, and sponsors interested in Internet-enabled business. The results of our applied research are transforming digital business.  
Research Briefs & Working Papers
The Changing Software Business: From Products to Services and Other New Business Models (#236) January 2008
Over the past several years, the software business has been undergoing dramatic changes, with important implications both for users as well as producers of software products and services. Perhaps the most significant change is the decline of traditional product sales or license fees and the shift in product company revenues to services ... Find out more...

Measuring the Impact of Electronic Data Management on Information Worker Productivity January 2008
In this project, we studied the effects of digitizing work on information workers’ time-use and performance at a large insurance firm.  We were able to determine of direction of causality between technology and performance by exploiting a quasi-experiment: the phased introduction of Electronic Document Management (EDM) across multiple offices at different dates.  Our analysis used a “difference-in-differences” methodology to econometrically measure changes in a suite of performance metrics.  This allowed us to derive unbiased estimates of the main effects ... Find out more...
Digital Business Highlights

Masahiro Aozono, Chairman of the Board of Directors, CSK HOLDINGS CORPORATION
"As a sponsor of the MIT Center for Digital Business, our collaborative research has brought us great accomplishments. The discussion I had with Professor Brynjolfsson regarding the correlations between IT investments and enterprise productivity research has become the fundamental basis for the CSK group corporate strategy. Currently, we are conducting research in healthcare and we are looking forward to the research results. The Center for Digital Business is an important partner to further grow together with the CSK group."

Gary L. Cowger, Group Vice President, Global Manufacturing and Labor Relations, GENERAL MOTORS
"GM was a Founding Sponsor of the MIT Center for Digital Business in 1999.  Since that time, our collaboration has provided extremely important insights into how we interact with our customers - particularly online.  While much of our university support is geared toward looking deep into the future, our support of Professor Glen Urban's research at the Center provides tools that help us improve our business now."

John Chambers, CEO, CISCO SYSTEMS
"Our long-standing sponsorship of the MIT Center for Digital Business provides Cisco with access to some of the world's most credible research and brightest researchers. The MIT CDB has been one of our most important partners in researching issues like the value of collaboration, the role of the network as a platform, and the impact of networking technologies on productivity. Data and analysis from this MIT CDB research has provided Cisco with unique, valuable insight and thought leadership resources."

Henning Kagermann, CEO, SAP AG
"SAP's investment in the MIT Center for Digital Business is showing excellent results. I personally draw great benefit through discussions with Erik Brynjolfsson, and our Research Group has access to the Center's award-winning data analysis which has credibly demonstrated how investments in enterprise IT improve business performance in a variety of companies. Not only have we put these findings to work within SAP, but we have also shared them with our customers at events from Frankfurt to Palo Alto. There is simply no peer for the MIT Center for Digital Business."

2008 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
May 21, 2008
> This event brings together 500 senior-level IT decision-makers in a day of networking, spirited discussions and informative discourse concerning today's business and technology issues. Find out more...

Save the Date for the 2008 MIT Sloan CIO Summit
Sept 17-18, 2008
> Over 30 CIOs attended our 2007 MIT CIO Summit.

Erik Brynjolfsson named one of "Top 100 Most Influential People in IT"
eWeek.Com, April 2007
>"Among the first to measure the productivity contributions of IT "
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Featured Researcher
Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson
Director, MIT Center for Digital Business and the Schussel Professor of Management
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