Developing Strategy
Which Rules Are Worth Breaking?
Disrupting the status quo is often valuable, but taken too far, it can lead to ethical crises.
Innovation
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Disruption
Digital Disruption Is a People Problem
People, organizations, and policy respond to technological advances at different rates.
Disruption
12 Essential Innovation Insights
We searched the MIT SMR archives to find 12 essential innovation insights.
Collaboration
Why Design Thinking in Business Needs a Rethink
Design thinking needs better alignment with the dynamics of established businesses.
Innovation Strategy
Creating Better Innovation Measurement Practices
Improving a company’s measurement of innovation requires a holistic view of its innovation process.
Global Strategy
Leading to Become Obsolete
Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin is transforming a manufacturing giant into a platform for entrepreneurship.
Innovation Strategy
Digital Innovation Lights the Fuse for Better Health Care Outcomes
Fuse pairs engineers and scientists with providers and patients to improve health care.
Collaboration
How to Catalyze Innovation in Your Organization
Executives can foster innovation by understanding and tapping the power of employee networks.
Digital Marketing
Supply Chains Built for Speed and Customization
Thanks to technologies like 3-D printing, a new supply chain model is emerging.
Collaboration
Developing Innovative Solutions Through Internal Crowdsourcing
If managed well, internal crowdsourcing initiatives can open up a rich source of innovation.
Culture
Why China Is the World’s Innovation Role Model
China continues to be the best place to go to learn how to make ideas commercially viable.
AI & Machine Learning
How Big Data Is Empowering AI and Machine Learning at Scale
The synergism of Big Data and artificial intelligence holds amazing promise for business.
Innovation Strategy
Leadership Development’s Epic Fail
Most leadership development programs focus on competencies but fail to view leaders as individuals.
Research Findings: Analytics as a Source of Business Innovation
In this webinar, MIT SMR authors Sam Ransbotham and David Kiron discussed why data governance is becoming more and more important to analytical innovators.
Disruption
The Best Response to Digital Disruption
Companies with bold strategies in response to digitization will come out as winners.
Innovation Strategy
Seeing Beyond the Blockchain Hype
The transformative potential of blockchain is real, but so are the challenges to its implementation.
Developing Strategy
Harnessing the Secret Structure of Innovation
Innovation success is the result of a deliberate search using key information signals.
Innovation Strategy
Mastering the Digital Innovation Challenge
Digital innovation can require carefully balancing new capabilities and core competencies.
Collaboration
The Customer-Inventor Revolution
The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.
AI & Machine Learning
How to Thrive — and Survive — in a World of AI Disruption
The challenge we face today is not a “world without work” but a world with rapidly changing work.