Developing Strategy
Three Things to Know About M&As and Technology
Recent research provides insights into how companies’ technology portfolios affect their approach to M&As.
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Building One KPI to Rule Them All
Leaders detail Agoda’s development of a KPI that accounts for external factors and aids strategic goal alignment.
Technology Implementation
Monetizing Data With AI: MIT CISR’s Barb Wixom
On this Me, Myself, and AI bonus episode, MIT CISR researcher Barbara Wixom shares insights from 30 years in the field.
Financial Management & Risk
Break Down Silos for Visibility Into Enterprise Risk
Leaders must tackle both cultural and technology issues to gain a more comprehensive view of risk organization wide.
Customers
Consumers Are Gaining the Right to Repair — Are You Ready?
Consumer ire over vendor restrictions is leading to new right-to-repair laws in many jurisdictions.
Global Strategy
How Chinese Companies Expand Globally Despite Headwinds
Chinese companies’ place-based strategies for international expansion offer lessons for businesses worldwide.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Great Power Shift: How Intelligent Choice Architectures Rewrite Decision Rights
Agentic AI adopters must proactively address decision rights allocations, power dynamics, and decision-making practices.
Security & Privacy
How Ferrari Hit the Brakes on a Deepfake CEO
Security experts share seven steps leaders can take to protect their organizations against deepfake scams.
AI & Machine Learning
Generate Value From GenAI With ‘Small t’ Transformations
Companies are getting real value from generative AI today and building for future transformation by managing risk.
Leadership Skills
Three Nonnegotiable Leadership Skills for 2025
Work will be messy and volatile in 2025: Focus on developing these leadership skills.
AI & Machine Learning
Turbocharging Organizational Learning With GenAI
Generative AI can greatly enhance organizational learning, but using it successfully requires the right mindset.
AI & Machine Learning
Gaining Real Business Benefits From GenAI: An MIT SMR Executive Guide
Many organizations aren’t sure how to reap business value from GenAI. This series offers expert insights and examples.
Organizational Structure
Improve Workflows by Managing Bottlenecks
Learn how to design work systems and resource portfolios to address bottlenecks that affect company performance.
Performance Management
Three Things to Know About Incentivizing CEOs
Recent research offers strategies to help boards negotiate executive contracts that align compensation with results.
Developing Strategy
Ask Sanyin: How Do You Build for an Unpredictable Future?
Wise leaders live with the discomfort of uncertainty and focus on horizon scanning and preparing for a range of options.
Leadership Skills
Four Leadership Loads That Keep Getting Heavier
From hyping up teams to finding the right data, ever more challenging tasks demand new approaches. Here are four tips.
AI & Machine Learning
Five Ways Predictive AI Can Improve Sales Performance Management
AI-powered SPM can help businesses address their sales strategy and process problems through precision forecasting.
Diversity & Inclusion
How Integrating DEI Into Strategy Lifts Performance
A study uncovers how taking a strategic approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion can boost financial performance.
Boards & Corporate Governance
How to Sabotage Your Board
Be on the lookout for these practices that prevent boards of directors from functioning effectively.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Immersive Commerce: Early Lessons From Walmart
The retailer’s experiments in immersive commerce offer marketing leaders lessons on reaching a new set of consumers.