Stephanie Woerner

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Stephanie Woerner is a principal research scientist at MIT Sloan and the director of MIT CISR. Her research focuses on how companies use technology and data to make more effective business models, and how they manage the associated organizational change, governance, and strategy implications.

A primary author of the Four Stages of Enterprise AI Maturity framework and the Four S framework (Strategy / Systems / Synchronization / Stewardship) — see enterprise-ai-adoption and MIT Sloan article.

Open questions

• Books and longer-form publications (Woerner co-authors a stream of MIT CISR research briefings; identify the canonical book/article roster as more sources are ingested).
• Earlier maturity frameworks (pre-AI) — does the Four Stages model build on a digital-transformation maturity model?