Nils Fonstad, an MIT CISR research scientist, investigates how groups use information technology to effectively engage and work across boundaries - both within and between organizations. His current research examines how organizations develop systems of boundary-spanning mechanisms to bring together key stakeholders and use projects to simultaneously achieve urgent local objectives and advance longer-term organization-wide strategies. He has extended this research to also examine how organizations effectively govern their relations with external sourcing providers. Nils earned his PhD degree in Information Technology and Organization Studies from MIT Sloan School of Management.