Center Activities

The primary mission of the Center is to encourage and support research on digital markets and businesses. Center activities include:

Sponsorship of Research Projects

The primary purpose of the Center is to encourage and sponsor research relating to the impacts of digitization on markets and enterprises. To accomplish this objective, the Center provides funding to faculty members who propose interesting, leading-edge research relating to the business impacts of digitization. The Center funds individual scholars as well as multidisciplinary teams of researchers who propose projects to the Center, or who are interested in undertaking studies brought to the Center by its sponsors.

Publication of An On-line Working Paper Series

To disseminate the results of research, the Center publishes an on-line working paper series linked to the Smith School online working papers pages.

Sponsorship of Seminars

Conferences and symposia are important mechanisms for disseminating knowledge. The Center hosts conferences like the CIO Forum that bring together academics and practitioners to focus on a single topic like the impact of 2.0 technologies

Executive Education Short Courses on Digital Businesses and Markets and Enterprises

In partnership with the Executive Education Center DIGITS faculty offer short courses related to the theme of the center. Course modules include:

  • Digital Strategies and Web 2.0
  • Sponsored Search Markets
  • Digitization and Organization Design in a Netcentric Business Environment
  • Digital Markets: Models of Success and Failure
  • Designing Digital Marketplaces
  • Digital Marketplaces: Structures, Market Mechanisms and IT Enabled Strategies
  • Designing Successful Electronic Auctions
  • Disintermediating Distributors and Others
  • The Electronic Supply Chain
  • Future Strategies in the Telecommunications Sector
  • Mobile Commerce: Technologies and Business Models
  • E-Services: New Ways to Serve Customers

Annual Center Research Conference

Each year the Center holds a research conference that is designed primarily for its sponsors. The conference features reports of the year’s research projects, and showcases information technology from around the University.

Center Publications

Longer term the Center will consider publishing an electronic journal, monograph series, and/or a book of collected papers each year; the objective is to disseminate the results of Center research broadly.