Organizational Behavior
Is Your Business Ready for a Digital Future?
Research by MIT SMR shows that effective digital strategy is strongly associated with a company’s overall digital maturity.
Organizational Behavior
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Organizational Behavior
Should Employers Help Employees Turn Off Technology?
Pervasive and near-continual use of organizational information technology systems is taking a toll on some employees’ health.
Collaboration
Are You Part of the Email Problem?
Over-reliance on email is sapping people’s time and energy, says author Phil Simon. There are better ways to do things.
Collaboration
‘People Analytics’ Through Super-Charged ID Badges
Humanyze helps interpret social data so that businesses can identify the best collaborative practices of the most effective people.
Collaboration
How to Compensate For Overoptimistic Project Leaders
Leaders can avoid unhappy project status surprises if they understand how — and why — people avoid sharing bad news.
Organizational Behavior
Designing Trustworthy Organizations
Building organizational trust is different from building interpersonal trust — and less intuitive.
Culture
How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?
A new assessment tool can help executives pinpoint a company’s innovation strengths and weaknesses.
Business Models
Amoeba Management: Lessons From Japan’s Kyocera
Kyocera Corp.’s distinctive management system seeks profitable growth by extreme decentralization.
Culture
Uncommon Sense: How to Turn Distinctive Beliefs Into Action
A company’s beliefs are often the most critical source of differentiation.
Culture
Lessons from Ken Olsen and Digital Equipment Corp.
The death of Digital Equipment Corp. cofounder (and MIT alumnus) Ken Olsen has prompted much conversation about him and the DEC.
Collaboration
The Collaborative Organization: How to Make Employee Networks Really Work
Once managers grasp the patterns of employee interactions, they can reduce network inefficiencies.
