Passionate advisor focused on increasing top and/or bottom line performance for mid-size and emerging organizations. Works as virtual member with corporate and/or business line executives to evaluate the threats and opportunities that come from disruption/transformation. Engages with them to evaluate current competitive environment, industry restructuring, new entrants/offerings, new business models, ecosystems/partnerships, initiatives, experiments, enabling technologies, change management and performance metrics. Examples- Healthcare- focused on health care provider clinical optimization Opportunity to improve performance 10-30% recurring annually. Approach is to identify best demonstrated practices using optimized workflows, roles and telemedicine. Higher Education- part of team that launched Questrom's MicroMasters Program on edX. Lead the Digital Strategy course for ten sessions teaching 1,000s of learners around the world how to understand and redefine industry disruption into a business transformation strategy. Led to introduction of Online MBA.Experience- Past VP at Gartner working with 25 CIOs and partner at Accenture doing full range of IT enabled strategies. Has lead executive programs, taught BU Questrom MBAs, convened collaborative working sessions and served as a BU Digital Fellow.This began back in 1989 as Professor Venkatraman's TA for the first IT strategy course offered at the MIT Sloan School. They partnered over the years in delivering strategies and more recently collaborated on Venkat's The Digital Matrix- New Rules for Business Transformation Through Technology.eMail: csprague@sloan.mit.eduCell: 781 640 0494