| George Westerman is a Research Scientist in MIT Sloan’s
Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and faculty chair for the MIT
Sloan course IT for the Non-IT Executive. His research and teaching examine
executive-level opportunities to generate higher business value from IT. Key
topics include innovation, IT risk management, and IT value transparency.
George is co-author (with Richard Hunter) of The Real Business of IT: How CIOs
Create and Communicate Value, which CIO Insight magazine named the #1 IT / Business
Book of 2009, and IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage, one
of CIO Insight’s five Best Books of 2007. He has received the 2007 Best Paper award
from the Society for Information Management and multiple awards for academic reviewing.
His research has appeared in journals such as Sloan Management Review, Organization Science,
Industrial and Corporate Change, MIS Quarterly Executive and IESE Insight.
George is a sought-after speaker and workshop leader. He works with leading
organizations such as IBM, State Street, Microsoft, Intel, Raytheon, and Fidelity
Investments, and speaks at academic and industry conferences. Prior to earning his
doctorate at Harvard Business School, he gained more than fifteen years of experience
in IT and corporate management. In addition to his research and teaching, George serves
on the editorial board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and on
board committees for several non-profit organizations.
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