AI and Technology Strategy
How leaders determine where emerging technologies create value and make investment, adoption, and implementation choices.
Strategy • Human Intelligence • Frontier Technologies
SHIFT Lab
Helping leaders and organizations make strategic decisions about artificial intelligence and frontier technologies.
Technology does not determine the future. Strategic decisions do. SHIFT studies how organizations decide where emerging technologies create value, what must change, and what capabilities are required to act responsibly.
About
Making technological change a strategic organizational question
The SHIFT Lab advances research on how leaders and organizations make strategic decisions about artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies.
Our mission is to generate, translate, and mobilize research that helps organizations determine where emerging technologies create value, what capabilities are required for successful implementation, how responsible governance can be strengthened, and how organizations can continually adapt as technologies evolve.
SHIFT brings together researchers, students, organizational leaders, and cross-sector partners to advance evidence-informed technology strategy through interdisciplinary research, leadership development, and collaborative learning.
The SHIFT research framework
Making strategic decisions about frontier technologies
SHIFT focuses on the sequence of choices that turns technological possibility into organizational strategy.
SHIFT studies how these questions are framed, answered, and revised as technologies, organizational conditions, and public expectations evolve.
Research
What we study
Organizational Learning
How organizations learn from evidence and experience, revise strategic choices, and build capabilities for continual adaptation.
Strategic Foresight
How scenario planning, simulation, and experiential learning strengthen decision-making under technological uncertainty.
Leadership and Human Intelligence
How executives and professionals use judgment, expertise, and human-AI collaboration to make consequential decisions.
Responsible AI Governance
How governance enables accountability, oversight, trust, and responsible innovation as organizations pursue strategic value.
Organizational Transformation
How technology reshapes business and service models, work, professional roles, structures, and long-term organizational capability.
Organizations and partners
Collaborate with SHIFT
SHIFT welcomes collaboration with organizations across sectors that are exploring, implementing, governing, or reassessing artificial intelligence and frontier technologies.
Research partnerships
Collaborative studies, organizational case research, grant partnerships, evidence synthesis, and knowledge mobilization.
Research-informed guidance
Strategic foresight, executive learning, organizational capability assessment, responsible AI governance, and application of the SHIFT framework.
Opportunities for students
Interested in studying strategy, organizations, and emerging technologies?
SHIFT welcomes enquiries from prospective graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research assistants, and visiting scholars whose interests align with AI strategy, organizational learning, strategic foresight, leadership, responsible AI governance, or technology-enabled organizational transformation.
Prospective students should include a brief description of their research interests and a current curriculum vitae.
Lab leadership
Dr. Abi Sriharan
Founder and Director, SHIFT Lab
Dr. Sriharan is an organizational strategy scholar whose research examines how leaders and organizations make strategic decisions about artificial intelligence and frontier technologies.