AI Strategy
Helping organizations determine where AI creates value and how strategic choices evolve over time.
Shaping the future through responsible human–AI collaboration.
We study how organizations make strategic choices about artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies, and how they build the capability to learn, adapt, and create value in an increasingly uncertain world.
Healthcare serves as SHIFT’s living laboratory.
OUR FOCUS AREAS
Research with impact. Ideas into action.
Organizational Adaptation
Understanding how organizations learn, revise strategy, and build adaptive capability in rapidly changing environments.
Human–AI Collaboration
Designing organizations where people and intelligent technologies work together to enhance performance, creativity, and decision-making.
Responsible AI Governance
Developing governance approaches that enable innovation while strengthening trust, accountability, and public value.
CLOSING THE KNOWING–DOING GAP
From Knowledge to Capability
SHIFT translates rigorous research into executive insight, strategic tools, capacity building, and organizational impact.
Closing the knowing and doing gap requires understanding how organizations govern, interpret, and coordinate knowledge.
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Research
Generate evidence
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Executive Engagement
Engage leaders with evidence
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Strategic Tools
Support decision-making
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Capacity Building
Develop organizational capability
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Organizational Impact
Create responsible value
SELECTED RESEARCH
Leadership for AI Transformation
Journal of Medical Internet ResearchOne of the first organizational frameworks describing AI transformation across strategic, technological, operational, and governance domains.
AI Innovation and Workforce Priorities
International Journal of Health Planning and ManagementUnderstanding how organizations balance technological innovation with workforce capability, engagement, and well-being.
Crisis Leadership and Organizational Adaptation
Medical Care Research and ReviewAward-winning research examining leadership, adaptation, and decision-making during periods of disruption and uncertainty.
SHIFTRESEARCH LAB
FOUNDER
Dr. Abi Sriharan
Founder and Director, SHIFT Research Lab
Associate Professor, Frazer Faculty of Education, Ontario Tech University
Dr. Sriharan’s research examines how organizations make and adapt strategic choices about AI and other frontier technologies, and how leadership and learning shape responsible outcomes.
WORK WITH SHIFT
Let’s shape what’s next, together.
We welcome opportunities to collaborate with researchers, governments, healthcare organizations, industry, and community partners to advance responsible AI and build organizational capability for a better future.
Collaborate with us →We welcome partners who share our commitment to responsible innovation and public value.
