The National Science Foundation has awarded a $426,000 grant to Wayne State University for a three-year \"Digital Diffusion Dashboard Project.\" The project will study and develop a new methodology for accelerating the diffusion of innovation in global, networked businesses. The research will be conducted by an interdisciplinary research team of faculty and students from Wayne State University\'s Institute for Information Technology and Culture, the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, and from the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, Chicago. \"Global business has a central problem -- how to accelerate the adoption of new ideas, processes and technologies -- because organizations depend on the speed of implementation to be competitive,\" said Allen W. Batteau, director of Wayne State\'s Institute for Information Technology and Culture. \"Digital Diffusion will create a dashboard to manage and accelerate the diffusion of innovations within a global enterprise -- by harnessing information that already flows through a company\'s IT infrastructure.\"