Leadership Skills
Staying in the Know
How can executives best distinguish usable information from distracting noise?
Research Feature
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How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Ideas
There’s a link between the amount of diversity in employees’ Twitter networks and the quality of their ideas.
Developing Strategy
The New Mission for Multinationals
Across a broad swath of industries, multinationals are losing ground in emerging markets to local players.
Project Management
How Executive Sponsors Influence Project Success
The role of project sponsors is often overlooked, but actively engaged executives are crucial to a project’s success.
Project Management
What Successful Project Managers Do
Successful project managers often combine elements of traditional and agile approaches to project management.
Project Management
Reducing Unwelcome Surprises in Project Management
A project’s “unknown unknowns” can be reduced through both product design approaches and behavioral approaches.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Minding the Analytics Gap
Increased access to data can be turned into better decision making by focusing on both the production and consumption of analytics.
Business Models
Competing With Ordinary Resources
Not every company needs to be built around a strong brand, exceptional talent or exclusive technology.
Managing Your Career
Assembling Your Personal Board of Advisors
Six types of personal advisors can provide an important combination of psychosocial support and career support.
Collaboration
Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help
Making it safe to be honest about when projects are getting off track can promote cooperative behavior.
Leadership Skills
Why You Decide the Way You Do
Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.
Developing Strategy
The Power of Asking Pivotal Questions
Asking the right questions can help you broaden your perspective — and make smarter decisions.
Innovation Strategy
Mastering the ‘Name Your Product Category’ Game
The ideal window of opportunity to enter a new industry starts when a dominant category label is introduced.
Financial Management & Risk
From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal With Disruption
Companies need to cultivate resilience to unexpected disruptions to complex supply chains.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Using Simulated Experience to Make Sense of Big Data
Simulations can help shrink the gap between what analysts try to explain and what decision makers understand.
IT Governance & Leadership
The Dark Side of Information Technology
All of our wonderful mobile devices don’t always make us good at managing what we do with them.
Marketing Strategy
The Case for ‘Benevolent’ Mobile Apps
Smartphone apps that provide consumers with helpful information can improve users’ trust in a brand.
Developing Strategy
Beyond Forecasting: Creating New Strategic Narratives
In turbulent markets, managers can build momentum for innovative strategies by rethinking the past, reconsidering present concerns – and reimagining the future.
Developing Strategy
The Opportunity Paradox
How can managers best meet the challenge of capturing new growth opportunities?
Boards & Corporate Governance
How Strategic Is Your Board?
Strategic thinking by corporate boards is more important than ever for business survival.