Stephanie Woerner reads MIT CISR's February 2021 research briefing, which she co-authored with Peter Weill. See the text version and related content at https://cisr.mit.edu/publication/2021_0201_PathwaysUpdate_WoernerWeill.

Abstract: In 2017 we first observed how almost every big old company was on a digital transformation journey, many without a playbook. We described the goal of business transformation—to become Future Ready—and four pathways we identified in our research that companies can follow to outperform their industry. In understanding how companies successfully get to Future Ready, we pinpointed four significant, disruptive changes common to all of the pathways, which we call “explosions.” In this briefing we update the research and highlight what we have learned over the last four years.