Education and Training

CMIT helps people make better decisions about technology—whether they are beginning to explore a career, advancing in it, or leading an organization through change. We bring together UVA students and alumni, faculty, and experienced practitioners to learn from one another on the technology issues reshaping business.

Areas of Focus

AI in Organizations

Employees are adopting AI quickly, but many organizations are still struggling to make it work at scale. CMIT faculty study why adoption stalls, how firms assess AI’s impact across the workforce, and the governance and training that help close the gap.

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Cybersecurity

As attacks grow more sophisticated and AI introduces new risks, organizations must strengthen both their systems and their people. CMIT research examines social engineering, security culture, organizational resilience, and how leaders prepare for and recover from incidents.

Product Management

As organizations reorganize around digital products, product roles are growing in scope and importance. CMIT faculty research and executive learning address product strategy, roadmaps, team design, and the shift from project delivery to product thinking.

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Project Management

CMIT researchers have analyzed hundreds of IT projects over more than two decades. Their work gives managers practical approaches for tracking project momentum, evaluating success, learning from setbacks, identifying root causes, and delivering complex initiatives more effectively.

Graduate Students and Alumni

CMIT creates opportunities for graduate students and alumni to stay current on consequential technology and business issues, expand their professional networks, and remain connected to McIntire faculty and one another. The Center’s longstanding relationship with the M.S. in Management of IT program remains central to this work, while CMIT continues to grow its engagement with M.S. in Business Analytics students and alumni and other UVA graduate communities.

For working professionals, CMIT offers a community that extends beyond a degree: a place to learn with peers, engage with leaders from across industries, and contribute over time as participants, speakers, Fellows, and advisors.

Undergraduate Student Support

CMIT helps undergraduate students see how technology is changing business—and meet the people leading that change. Speaker events, conversations with alumni and industry practitioners, treks to hiring firms, and opportunities to present their work give students a practical view of emerging technologies, career paths, and the professional community beyond UVA.

The Center also creates hands-on opportunities for students to apply technology to real-world challenges. Recent examples include the 2024 GenAI for the Common Good competition and the 2025 Claude for Good Hackathon. Student teams have presented at the Knowledge ∞ Continuum and earned recognition at HooHacks and hackathons at MIT and Yale.

Learning with Leaders

CMIT turns the focus areas above into opportunities for people to learn directly from one another. Through faculty-led discussions, practitioner conversations, workshops, webinars, and signature programs such as the Knowledge ∞ Continuum, the Center connects students and alumni with authors, thought leaders, and senior technology and business leaders.

These exchanges bring research into practice: helping participants test new ideas, understand their implications for organizations, and make more informed decisions in their own work.

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Transforming to Digital Product Management

Webinar interview with Society for Information Management Research Institute Executive Director Quintin McGrath and Professor and former CMIT Director Ryan Nelson, and featuring CarMax Executive Vice President and Chief Information & Technology Officer Shamim Mohammad.

In the first video, McGrath and Nelson discuss Nelson's recent paper “Transforming to Digital Product Management,” published in MIS Quarterly Executive.

In the second video, McGrath and Nelson bring in Mohammad to discuss the story of CarMax's transformation firsthand.

Programs at McIntire

Faculty & Research

It's more than an education.