Overview of IARCI Activities and Current Status

Research on Organizational Learning in the AI Era

The first phase of IARCI’s flagship research project on organizational learning in the AI era has been successfully completed. A paper based on this phase has been finalized. 

  • The IARCI study, based on interviews with 27 senior executives at global technology and consulting firms, warns that organizations adopting AI risk gradually surrendering their capacity for deeper reasoning—a pattern the researchers call “automation drift.” It offers leaders a blueprint for building a “thinking enterprise” that keeps human judgment at the center, arguing that AI’s value depends not on whether firms adopt it, but on how deliberately they design around it. 

Preparations are underway to initiate the next phase of the study. Professor Neena Pandey (IIM Visakhapatnam) will present highlights from the first phase, including key findings and their implications for organizations adopting AI at scale.

Workshops, Webinars, and Thought Leadership Initiatives

  • IARCI has organized panel discussions and workshops at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in both 2023 and 2024.
  • ICIS 2023 (Hyderabad): Two panel discussions with participation from leading academic scholars and practitioners from TCS, LTIMindtree, Accenture, and an AI startup, on the following themes:
  • Revisiting Digital Innovation Ecosystems: Finding a Way for Academia–Industry Research Collaboration to Succeed
  • Paradigm Shift in AI: Generative AI and Beyond
  • ICIS 2024 (Bangkok): A workshop comprising two sessions:
  • A panel discussion on Value Co-creation in Industry–Academia Research Collaboration in Information Systems, with panelists from Digital India, HSBC Bank, TCS, the University of Münster, the University of Zurich, and Brigham Young University
  • Research presentations on industry-related projects by the IARCI Research Fellow and researchers from Digital India and HSBC
  • Professor Alan Dennis delivered a webinar on Digital Twins for TCS in May 2025.
  • Looking ahead, IARCI plans to organize a series of webinars on emerging topics starting in 2026. Proposed themes include human–AI interaction, generative AI, agentic AI and the future of work, AI governance, and related areas. As an initial step, Professor Alan Dennis delivered a webinar on Digital Twins for TCS in May 2025

Support for Early-Career Researchers

  • IARCI remains committed to mentoring junior faculty interested in pursuing high-quality Information Systems research.
  • IARCI is planning projects with Universities such as XLRI for 2026.