information technology management

MIT Sloan economist and digital-business expert Erik Brynjolfsson tells how the rising data flood, and emerging tools for analyzing it, are changing the ways innovation gets done. In a conversation with MIT Sloan Management Review editor-in-chief Michael S. Hopkins, Brynjolfsson, talks about how smart companies have learned to tap the flood of data created by information technology and process it with what he calls a 'higher information metabolism.'