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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.
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