ABOUT THE AUTHORS

George Westerman (@gwesterman) is a research scientist with the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. His research and teaching focus on digital technology leadership and innovation. George has written numerous contributions for publications ranging from Sloan Management Review to Organization Science to the Wall Street Journal. He is coauthor of two respected books: The Real Business of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value, named the Best IT-Business Book of 2009 by CIO Insight magazine, and IT Risk: Turning Business Threats into Competitive Advantage, named one of the top five books of 2007 by CIO Insight. He regularly conducts keynote presentations and senior executive workshops with companies around the world. Prior to earning his doctorate from Harvard Business School, George gained more than thirteen years of experience in product development and technology leadership roles. His blog is georgewesterman.org.

Didier Bonnet (@didiebon) is a senior vice-president at Capgemini Consulting, where he serves as Global Practice Leader and heads Capgemini Consulting’s Digital Transformation program. He has more than twenty-five years’ experience in strategy development, globalization, internet economics, and business transformation for large global corporations. He has published several articles and book chapters, and is frequently quoted in the press, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Financial Times, and the Economist. Prior to Capgemini he was a vice president at Gemini Consulting and a senior associate at economic consulting firm Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett. Bonnet graduated in business economics from a French “Grande Ecole” and earned his doctorate from New College, University of Oxford. His blog is didierbonnet.com.

Andrew McAfee (@amcafee) is a principal research scientist and cofounder of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He has also held appointments on the faculty of Harvard Business School and as a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He has written for magazines and journals such as Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. He is the coauthor, with Erik Brynjolfsson, of Race Against the Machine and the New York Times bestseller The Second Machine Age. He is also the author of Enterprise 2.0. McAfee earned his doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT. His blog is andrewmcafee.org.