The Center for Digital Transformation conducts and disseminates research on digital transformation. As a university-based center, it focuses on educating the workforce for success in a technology-intensive world.
To become a vital center of influence, advancing the competitiveness and productivity of business in the digital economy.
Faculty Director
Vijay Gurbaxani
Vijay Gurbaxani is the Taco Bell Endowed Professor of Information Systems and Computer Science and Director of the Center for Digital Transformation (CDT) at the UCI Paul Merage School of Business. His research, teaching and consulting interests are at the nexus of business strategy and information technology (IT). He focuses on analyzing how emerging information technologies enable business model innovation; on developing and evaluating business-driven strategies for the sourcing of information services; and on valuing IT investment. His approach is distinctive in its use of economic principles as the lens with which to analyze strategic management questions.
Roxanne Austin
Board Director
AbbVie, Verizon, CrowdStrike Holdings, Freshworks
Jagdeep Bachher
Chief Investment Officer
University of California
Dawn Behnke
EVP, Life Insurance Division
Pacific Life Insurance Company
Marcello Damiani
Board Director, Cellarity, BenevolentAI
Former Chief Digital & Operational Excellence Officer, Moderna
Susan Doniz
CIO & SVP, Information Technology & Data Analytics
The Boeing Company
Julie Guggemos
Board Director, Evrnu, Beekman 1802
Former SVP & Chief Design Officer, Target
Gajen Kandiah
Chief Executive Officer, Hitachi Vantara
Chief Transformation Officer, Hitachi Digital Systems & Services
President, Hitachi Digital
Jeff Margolis
Margolis Enterprises, LLC
Senior Advisor, Blackstone; Chairman, Nextgen Healthcare; Board Director, Alignment Health Care, TriNetX, Hydrogen Health, Grin, DNAnexus, Brightside Health
Diana McKenzie
Board Director
MetLife, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Paradox, agilon health
Chris Nardecchia
SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer
Rockwell Automation
Kalpana Ramakrishnan
Principal
KPMG
Shashank Samant
Board Director, Office Depot, Rackspace, EurekaForbes
Center Contributors
We gratefully recognize the following individuals who have generously given their time and resources in support of the center and our programs. Contributors serve as advisory board members, industry and research fellows and research affiliates.
Kiva Allgood
President, CEO & Board Director
Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation
Vasudev Bhandarkar
Founder/ CEO
ScoreData Corporation
Manish Dasaur
Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Communications & Media Industry, NA
Accenture
Suren Dutia
Senior Fellow
Kauffman Foundation
Adam Fingersh
SVP, Chief Strategist and Head of Strategic Transformation
Experian North American
Shivbir Grewal
Co-Founder and Managing Member
Auctus Global Capital Group
Lynn Hemans
VP, Consumer Intelligence & Strategy
The Hershey Company
Donald Jones
Chief Digital Officer
The Scripps Research Institute
Allan Lubitz
Senior Advisor
Pivot Global Partners
Jeff Margolis
President
Margolis Enterprises
Phil Potloff
Head of Enterprise Strategy
Amazon Web Services
Geraldine Ramezani
SVP, Chief Information Officer
First American Financial Corporation
Ashwin Rangan
Chief Innovation & Information Officer
ICANN
Shankar Rao
CIO
Akeso Occupational Health
Rebecca Scholl
VP, Digital Innovation
Genpact
Julie Sokol
Former SVP, Information Technology
The Irvine Company
Srinivas Velamoor
EVP, Chief Growth & Strategy Officer
NextGen Healthcare
Dr. Nicholas Vitalari
CEO & Founder
Elasticity Labs
Tom Andriola
Senior Industry Fellow
Vice Chancellor for Information, Technology & Data, UC Irvine
Martin Giles
Senior Industry Fellow
Senior Editor, CIO Network, Forbes
Peter Hinssen
Senior Industry Fellow
Chairman & Co-founder, nexxworks
Allan Lubitz
Senior Industry Fellow and Senior Advisor
SVP & CIO, Pivot Global Partners
Alladi Venkatesh
Senior Research Fellow
Professor, The Paul Merage School of Business
Dr. Nicholas Vitalari
Senior Research Fellow
CEO & Founder, Elasticity Labs
Vibhanshu Abhishek
Associate Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
Behnaz Bojd
Assistant Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
Michael Carey
Professor
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Vidyanand Choudhary
Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
Sanjeev Dewan
Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
Vijay Gurbaxani
Professor and Director CDT
The Paul Merage School of Business
Mimi Ito
Professor in Residence
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Frank MacCrory
Assistant Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
Gloria Mark
Professor
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Bill Maurer
Dean, Professor & AAAS Fellow
School of Social Sciences
Melissa Mazmanian
Associate Professor
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
Tingting Nian
Assistant Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
Connie Pechmann
Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
Jui Ramaprasad
Associate Professor
Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Padhraic Smyth
Professor
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
John Turner
Associate Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
Margarethe Wiersema
Dean’s Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
Mingdi Xin
Assistant Professor
The Paul Merage School of Business
The MBA Immersion in Digital Transformation prepares students to lead their organizations to success in the digital economy. Digital technologies are appreciating in power at incredible rates and changing the business environment in profound ways. Digital Transformation is the reinvention of businesses to reflect the digital world. The economics of the digital world are fundamentally different from those of the physical world, and imply new rules of competition. They change business strategy, structure and practices in profound ways. Students will learn how to analyze technology-enabled change broadly and how to leverage digital technologies across businesses, from the perspective of both incumbents and startups.
The MBA Immersion in Digital Transformation prepares students to lead their organizations to success in the digital economy. Digital technologies are appreciating in power at incredible rates and changing the business environment in profound ways. Digital Transformation is the reinvention of businesses to reflect the digital world. The economics of the digital world are fundamentally different from those of the physical world, and imply new rules of competition. They change business strategy, structure and practices in profound ways. Students will learn how to analyze technology-enabled change broadly and how to leverage digital technologies across businesses, from the perspective of both incumbents and startups.
Research
The Center conducts both academic and applied research. CDT serves as an interdisciplinary research institute drawing on economists, behavioral scientists, sociologists and computer scientists to help understand the emerging digital business environment. Our research areas address key constituencies for the research – business executives seeking to understand how to adapt their enterprises for success in a digital economy, technology executives focused on making critical IT-related decisions that advance company performance, managers of social enterprises and IT industry executives.
Our current focus is on five critical issue areas:
Learn more about the Center's academic and applied research.
The inaugural event featured a discussion on ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence program that has gone viral over the last few months.
Carnegie Mellon Professor Michael Smith argues universities must adapt to the digital world.
Top business leaders spoke about the necessity of maintaining cyber security as the business world continues to evolve digitally.
To kick off the eleventh year of the Center for Digital Transformation at the UCI Paul Merage School of Business, Vijay Gurbaxani, Director of the Center for Digital Transformation, invited guest speakers Nicole Perlroth and Adam Segal to discuss their report titled “Confronting Reality in Cyberspace Foreign Policy for a Fragmented Internet,” which delves into the implications of foreign policy in cyberspace.
The UCI Paul Merage School of Business’s Center for Digital Transformation invited Professor Marshall Van Alstyne to speak on the issues of free speech and misinformation in the modern age.
CDT Director Vijay Gurbaxani and guest speaker Martin Ford addressed the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the economy, the job market and society as a whole.
The AI awakening is upon us, but what does that mean? The Center for Digital Transformation hosted Stanford Professor and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab Erik Brynjolfsson in conversation with Center Director Professor Vijay Gurbaxani to discuss the ways we can harness the power of artificial intelligence to drive shared prosperity.
“Diversity of thought” and efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion in the tech workspace can advance your organization
There are numerous ways for you and your organization can get involved with the Center for Digital Transformation. These opportunities extend from sharing your knowledge and time to providing financial support for our programs.
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