Build Eight Dynamic Capabilities for Digital Business Model Change

September 1, 2021

Stephanie L. Woerner, Research Scientist
Leslie Owens, Executive Director & MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer
MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
Cynthia M. Beath, Professor Emerita
University of Texas, Austin

DIGITAL BUSINESS MODEL CAPABILITIES PROPEL CHANGE IN MULTIPLE WAYS

To put the concept of dynamic capabilities in context, in this briefing we revisit Peter Weill and Stephanie Woerner’s seminal work on digital business models, What’s Your Digital Business Model? That book outlined four viable digital business models and described eight capabilities that companies must have to support a digital business model launch, adaptation, or transformation. All eight capabilities are dynamic capabilities.

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