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.
Three AI implementation guides from MIT provide research-based insights on AI maturity, which AI tool to use, and the human capabilities that will be even more essential in the future.
New research highlights four areas leaders must address as they embed AI across their business.
Senior research scientist Peter Weill and principal research scientist Stephanie L. Woerner wrote: "To manage increasing digital complexity, successful boards are structuring their focus around three key areas: strategy, defense, and oversight. The technology bar for board effectiveness keeps rising. Boards with general digital expertise are no longer differentiated. Only boards that are staying current with AI and emerging technologies are driving superior performance."
"This is an exciting opportunity to rethink the customer experience, leapfrog competitors, and potentially achieve top performance."
A research briefing written by Peter Weill, Stephanie Woerner, and Ina M. Sebastian identified four stages in AI advancement.
"No organization can thrive alone, and partnerships with xTechs present large companies with opportunities to innovate quickly."
Future-Ready Enterprise Academy is an immersive learning experience that equips senior executives with the strategies, frameworks, and insights needed to design and execute business strategy, navigate uncertainty, and lead their organizations with agility. Offered jointly by MIT Sloan Executive Education and IMD in Singapore, this program leverages expertise from two world-renowned institutions to help leaders prepare for and thrive in an unpredictable business environment.
Recent MIT research shows that having board members with digital savvy is the new financial performance differentiator. This course combines a two-day live online program with self-paced online learning components to help individuals and small teams—leaders and board members of large enterprises—increase their digital savviness and have more productive discussions around the opportunities and threats of the digital economy.
