About Peter
Peter's work centres on the role, value and governance of IT in enterprises. Peter joined the Sloan faculty in 2000 to become Director of MIT Sloan's Centre for Information Systems Research (CISR). MIT CISR is funded by sixty-five corporate sponsors and patrons and undertakes practical research on how firms generate business value from IT. Peter is now Chairman of MIT CISR and focuses on globalising MIT CISR research and delivery. In 2008, Ziff-Davis recognised Peter as one of the "Top 100 Most Influential People in IT."; Read more... PublicationsIT Savvy - 2009; IT Governance - 2004; Place to Space - 2001
Sample Topics
Role of IT in Enterprises;
Managing IT Decision Rights for Superior Results
Publications
IT Savvy: what top executives must know to go from pain to gain
Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution
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Professor Peter Weill's work centres on the role, value and governance of IT in enterprises.
Peter joined the Sloan faculty in 2000 to become Director of MIT Sloan's Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). MIT CISR is funded by sixty-five corporate sponsors and patrons, and undertakes practical research on how firms generate business value from IT. Peter is now Chairman of MIT CISR and focused on globalizing MIT CISR research and delivery.
In 2008 Ziff-Davis recognised Peter as #24 of "Top 100 Most Influential People in IT".
Peter has written award-winning books, journal articles, and case studies. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and the Wall Street Journal.
Peter has coauthored "best- selling" books published by Harvard Business School Press entitled: "Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution" (2006), "IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results" (2004), and "Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How market leaders capitalize on information technology" (1998). Peter's coauthored book "Place to Space: Migrating to eBusiness Models", (2001) won one of the Library Journal of America's best business book of the year awards and was reviewed by the New York Times.
Peter's new book with Jeanne Ross is "IT Savvy: what top executives must know to go from pain to gain" was published by HBS Press in June 2009. Peter presents executive and MBA programs on the business value of IT and in 2007 Peter received a MIT Sloan "Outstanding Teacher" award.
Peter regularly works with corporations and governments on IT issues including: Aetna, Australian Tax Office, BCG, BT, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, IBM, Merrill Lynch, McKinsey, Microsoft, PwC, Raytheon, State Street Corporation, TCS and Unibanco. In May 2009 Peter conducted a workshop on "IT Savvy" at Bill Gate's CEO Summit at Microsoft.
