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How Technology Transforms Businesses by Bain and MIT CISR
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Join us in an interactive discussion with Steve Berez, the founder of Bain's Information Technology Practice, and Leslie Owens, Executive Director of MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). Learn about how technology transforms businesses, top changes within industries, customer trends, biggest challenges firms face today, and the role MBAs play. Ask them about IT transformation, digital strategies, emerging technologies, and many more!
About Bain Information Technology Practice: Bain Information Technology Practice brings a range of technology capabilities that help our clients address four key business situations: IT strategy, IT performance improvement, IT M&A, and IT Project Effectiveness. Their capabilities include strategic planning, digital and operating model challenges, business architecture development, big data analysis, IT sourcing and procurement, IT organization and governance and IT metrics and dashboards.
About MIT CISR: MIT CISR conducts field-based research on issues related to how companies will design themselves and manage for success in the digital economy. Their mission is to develop concepts and frameworks to help executives address the challenges of leading increasingly dynamic, global, and information-intensive organizations. MIT CISR researches teach courses at Sloan, one of which is T-Lab "Enterprise Transformation in the Digital Economy".
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E51-325
100 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
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Steve Berez
Partner
Bain & Company
Steve Berez is a partner in Bain & Company's Boston office. He joined Bain in 1980 and is the co-founder of Bain's Information Technology practice, which he currently leads in the Americas. He is also an expert in Bain's Digital practice.
Steve has experience across a broad range of industries including financial services, technology, retail, healthcare, consumer products, and industrial goods and services. These assignments have addressed such topics as IT strategy and management; IT architecture transformation and complexity reduction; ERP and other core system replacement; business process redesign; IT-enabled growth strategy, salesforce effectiveness and customer relationship management; outsourcing and offshoring programs for operations and IT and cost reduction.
Leslie Owens
Executive Director & MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer
MIT CISR
Leslie joined the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2015 as a senior lecturer and executive director of MIT CISR. She oversees CISRÔÇÖs operations and is responsible for optimizing the impact of CISR research findings with academics, executives, and the general public. She also serves as a faculty mentor for a Sloan Action Learning course on enterprise transformation.
Leslie has worked in business technology for over twenty years as a practitioner, research analyst, and consultant. Before MIT CISR, she was a vice president and research director at Forrester Research where she managed a team of analysts and was responsible for leading research projects, delivering research and consulting services to clients, and speaking at major industry events.