IT Business Value Evangelist

Peter Weill is the Chairman of the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) and a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Previously, Peter was Foundation Professor and Chair of Management Information Systems and the Director of the Centre for Management of Information Technology (CMIT) at the Melbourne Business School (MBS) at the University of Melbourne.

Peter's work centers on the role, value and governance of information technology (IT) in effective organizations. An acclaimed and beloved thought leader in the business and IT arena, Peter speaks and advises corporations and governments on issues of IT investment and pay off and aligning the IT portfolio with business strategy.

In 2008 Ziff-Davis recognized 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 presents executive and MBA programs on the business value of IT and in 2007 Peter received an MIT Sloan “Outstanding Teacher” award.

Professor Weill recently coauthored an accessible new book IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain. Published by Harvard Business Press in Fall 2009, the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy.

Peter’s other award winning books include:

• Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution (Harvard Business School Press, 2006)
• IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results (Harvard Business School Press, 2004).
• Place to Space: Migrating to eBusiness Models, co-authored with Mike Vitale, (Harvard Business School Press, 2001).
• Leveraging The New Infrastructure: How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology Models, co-authored with Marianne Broadbent (Harvard Business School Press, 1998), now in its fourth printing

With a charming Australian accent, Peter Weill is best known for his engaging presentations on IT governance and infrastructure, ebusiness models, and managing the benefits of information systems.