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Author profiles

Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross

Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross are respectively Chairman and Director of the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). They co-authored Entreprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution (Harvard Business School Press, 2006) and IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results (Harvard Business School Press, 2004).

The CISR was established in 1974 and currently counts twelve members (researchers, faculty and associate faculty). The research results are disseminated through working papers, research briefings, an annual conference, and sponsor forums (click here for research projects).

Becoming an IT tamer

Senior executives need to develop the same sense of responsibility (and comfort) for IT investments and projects as for financial decisions

Portfolio proliferation

The authors propose that managers look at IT the way investment managers look at financial assets. IT portfolio management thinks in terms of IT asset classes and risk-return profiles