Biography

Gianluca Salviotti is an Associate Professor of Practice of Information Systems at SDA Bocconi School of Management. Since January 2018, he has been the Information Systems Faculty Deputy at SDA Bocconi School of Management. He is the Course Director of Strategy and Governance for Cyber Risk at Università Bocconi. He is part of the Faculty of the SDA Bocconi School of Management Asia Center.

At SDA Bocconi, he is the coordinator of the research Lab “Digital Enterprise Value and Organization” (DEVO Lab), Professor of Management Information Systems and Digital Transformation for the MBA, EMBA, EMBAWE, MFB, MISA, IEMB (Mumbai) programs. He is the Program Director of the Executive Education programs “Mastering Digital Evolution”, “IT Governance” and “IT Risk Management”. He has managed several custom research and education programs for companies such as ABB, ENI, IBM, Samsung, SAP, TIM, Vodafone.

His research activities focus on technologies for digital transformation, links between business complexity and IT Governance and IT risk management. Currently, he is working with the Design Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the identification and assessment of high impact digital technologies.

He is the author of numerous books and articles on Information Systems and Digital Transformation. His works have been published in Economia & Management, Il Sole 24 Ore and Computerworld, among others. He has also authored several books, including “The Blockchain Journey, a guide to practical business applications” and “Digital Manufacturing”. He won the SDA Best Coordinator Award in 2011 for Executive Education (Custom Programs) and in 2012 for Research. In 2013 he received the award for the best innovation project from the Claudio Demattè Research Division. In 2014, he won the Google Faculty Research Award with a study on digitalization in small and medium enterprises. In 2015 and 2016 he received the Sedin-Bocconi Teaching Award for the university program “Computer Skills for Economics”. In 2018 hewas the co-author of the award winning paper for the category “Move the FIeld Forward” thanks to a work on the application of Blockchaing technology on corporations.

Gianluca earned a degree and a Ph.D. in Business Administration & Management both from the Università degli Studi di Pavia. He received the International Teachers Program diploma from the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS, Shanghai-Beijing). He is married to Lorena, he has two sons, Francesco Jacopo and Alessandro Ludovico.