Technology Innovation Strategy

The 2015 Digital Business Report by MIT SMR and Deloitte identifies strategy as the key driver in the digital arena.

By using mobile devices, social media, analytics and the cloud, savvy companies are transforming the way they do business.

By 2020, most new data will be generated not by people but by sensors and embedded, intelligent devices.

When it comes to big data, GE avoids warehousing and instead turns to the data lake approach.

What if companies used information systems more broadly — not just to measure profits but also to account for the needs of people and the environment?

Companies seeking to use analytics for predictive decision making commonly make these four errors.

The impulse to collect and store all data on the off chance it might be useful is counterproductive.

Digital technologies are helping companies finesse trade-offs between complexity’s costs and benefits.

The way health care is billed in the U.S. system is part of the reason costs are so high. WellPoint is looking to analytics to play a strategic role in changing that.

Managers have an increasing appetite for analytics, according to a 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review / SAS survey.

Three recent books offer expert perspectives on the increasing power and importance of analytics.

Outsourcing analytics can offer benefits, but it requires a carefully constructed relationship.

Wealth once was measured by land, employees or equipment. Today, information is the new driver.

A recent survey sheds light on what large organizations are actually doing with big data initiatives.

When is the right time to refresh data to support organizational decision-making?

Neel Sundaresan, senior research director at eBay, discusses how eBay uses analytics at every level.

Mobile technology is blurring the boundaries between traditional and Internet retailing.

New research shows that flexible IT can help facilitate strategic alliances.

GE global software chief William Ruh discusses the combined power of analytics and sensors.

General Electric argues that productivity growth will increase as the industrial Internet emerges.