Peter Weill Director, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) MIT Sloan Senior Research Scientist Peter joined the Sloan faculty in 2000 to become director of MIT Sloan�s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). MIT CISR (established in 1974) is funded by fifty-five corporate sponsors and patrons, and undertakes practical research on how firms generate business value from IT. MIT CISR disseminates its findings through briefings, papers, workshops and executive education. Peter�s research and advisory work centers on the role, value and governance of IT in enterprises. In 2007 Ziff-Davis and eweek.com recognized Peter as one of �Top 100 Most Influential People in IT�. Peter presents executive education and MBA programs on the business value of IT and has written award-winning books, journal articles, and case studies. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Peter recently coauthored a book entitled Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution (HBS Press, July 2006) and is researching business agility. He co-authored a �best selling� book, IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results (Harvard Business School Press 2004). He is co-author of the �best-selling�, Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How market leaders capitalize on information technology (HBS Press 1998) and Place to Space: Migrating to eBusiness Models, (HBS Press 2001) which 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 regularly works with corporations and governments in IT issues including: Aetna, Australian Tax Office, BCG, British Telecom, IBM, Merrill Lynch, McKinsey, Microsoft, PwC, Raytheon, State Street Corporation and Unibanco. In 2007 Peter received an MIT Sloan �Outstanding Teacher� award.