Disruption
The Perfectly Imperfect Start of Disruptive Innovations
Which new ideas will revolutionize their industries? The history of one disruptive innovation offers clues.
Innovation
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New Product Development
When Generative AI Meets Product Development
Image- and text-generation tools are helping innovation groups improve ideation and creativity and gain market insights.
Disruption
Three Questions to Ask About Your Digital Strategy
Digital disruption is not always an organization’s best option. Here’s how to decide whether to disrupt or adapt.
Skills & Learning
Authoring Creativity With AI: Researcher Patrick Hebron
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, developer and author Patrick Hebron discusses using AI tools enhance software design.
Innovation Strategy
Keeping Innovation Alive at a Legacy Organization
GE Appliances president and CEO Kevin Nolan discusses differing approaches to management and innovation at GE and Haier.
Innovation Strategy
Engineer Your Own Luck
No one can predict the future, but modularizing core capabilities can prepare companies to be ready for the unexpected.
New Product Development
If 10% of the World Were Developers: GitHub’s Mario Rodriguez
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, GitHub’s Mario Rodriguez discusses AI’s potential to change the future of coding.
Equality
AI Hype and Skepticism: Economist Paul Romer
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer discusses the opportunities AI brings to education.
Innovation Strategy
Why Territorial Managers Stifle Innovation — and What to Do About It
Insecure managers who feel threatened by subordinates who have innovative ideas need incentives to change their behavior.
New Product Development
Lights, AI, Action: Wonder Dynamics’s Tye Sheridan
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Wonder Dynamics’s cofounder discusses an AI tool that enables faster, more cost-effective animation.
Disruption
The Anomalies of Disruption
The examples of Apple, Uber, and Tesla strengthen our ability to predict the impact of in-process innovations.
New Product Development
Serve More Customers With Inclusive Product Design
Leaders can promote more inclusive product design by asking a simple set of questions about potential target markets.
Collaboration
Solving Real User Problems With Generative AI: Slack’s Jackie Rocca
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Jackie Rocca explains how Slack uses artificial intelligence to relieve user pain points.
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Empower Citizen Developers to Accelerate Innovation
Learn to drive digital transformation by turning business-domain experts into citizen developers.
New Product Development
Driving Manufacturing Efficiency With AI: Pirelli’s Daniele Petecchi
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Daniele Petecchi discusses how Pirelli uses AI to develop tires more efficiently.
Innovation Strategy
Our Guide to the Spring 2024 Issue
The spring 2024 issue of MIT SMR looks at opportunities in digital innovation, automation, generative AI, and more.
Innovation Strategy
Steer Clear of Corporate Venture Capital Pitfalls
Leaders can better create and assess a corporate venture capital strategy by considering a series of key questions.
Innovation Strategy
Keeping Innovative Projects Aligned With Strategy
Where innovation proliferates, fast-moving companies rely on special review teams to keep projects aligned with the mission.
Technology Implementation
Bonus Episode: Artificial Intelligence Podcasts With Jennifer Strong
Journalist and podcast producer Jennifer Strong shares insight into her experiences producing audio journalism.
Technology Innovation Strategy
Radical Innovation Needs Old-School VC
Innovators working on urgent problems need funders who understand deep-tech opportunities and take a long-term view.