Innovation Strategy

The transformative potential of blockchain is real, but so are the challenges to its implementation.

Innovation success is the result of a deliberate search using key information signals.

Digital innovation can require carefully balancing new capabilities and core competencies.

The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.

AI is expected to be the single most disruptive new capability for companies in the next decade.

The Chinese telecom company Huawei has used strategic partnerships to gain ground in Europe.

Partnering with emerging-market startups is easier if four key factors can be addressed.

Getting value-chain partners on board is essential for innovation and e-business success.

Digital technology makes the creative process faster — and cheaper. And that’s great for business.

A strategic framework that eliminates faulty assumptions can help make alliances successful.

When a group of industry leaders work together to find new solutions and products, who’s in charge?

What are the most effective ways to communicate the process and output of innovation to executives?

Highly capable firms are often reluctant to take risks, but they have much to gain if they try to innovate.

Open-innovation platforms, used thoughtfully, can expand a company’s access to analytics talent.

High-impact innovations have built-in uncertainty — but careful strategizing can reduce the risk.

At the core of every great strategy is a novel and distinctive concept.

Algorithms are fundamentally redefining the roles of worker and manager.

Our biweekly exploration of new business ideas from the corridors of MIT.

Tech consortia help reduce patent risk, but managers must weigh the pros and cons for innovation.

The authors of MIT SMR‘s 2016 Data & Analytics Research Report present their findings.