Developing Strategy
Four Questions for Appraising Your Alliances
A new year is dawning. Do you know the state of your company’s alliances?
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Corporate Social Responsibility
A ‘Whole Company’ Approach for Justice and Equity
Siloed corporate social responsibility responses are insufficient to tackle structural inequities.
Innovation Strategy
The Best of This Week
Innovating remotely, changing strategically, and piloting AI projects.
Disruption
The Top MIT SMR Articles of 2020
The most popular articles of 2020 gave companies and leaders insights on navigating disruption, uncertainty, and change.
Technology Innovation Strategy
What Is a Minimum Viable AI Product?
There are differences between what constitutes a successful early AI pilot and success in other types of IT ventures.
Innovation Strategy
How Leading Companies Are Innovating Remotely
New research reveals steps that can help remote teams boost innovation and create customer value.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Best of This Week
Revolutionary recommendation engines, data access as a leadership priority, and the essentials of successful corporate social justice efforts.
Data & Data Culture
Empowering a Data Culture From the Inside Out
Transforming a company into a truly data-driven business involves fundamental organizational changes.
Collaboration
Who’s on Your Team?
Last year’s challenges underscore that humans work best if they work as a team for a common purpose.
Collaboration
Our Guide to the Winter 2021 Issue
MIT SMR’s winter issue looks at why teams work (or don’t), plus innovation, supply chains, and data for AI.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Leading With Decision-Driven Data Analytics
Data-driven decision-making anchors on available data, which can lead decision makers to focus on the wrong question.
Innovation Strategy
The Best of This Week
Crisis-driven innovation, self-sufficient production, and data to boost diversity.
Data & Data Culture
Top-Down Leadership for Data: Seven Ways to Get Started
Leaders must focus on quality, build organizational capabilities, and put data to work in new ways.
Diversity & Inclusion
Three Elements of Successful Corporate Social Justice Initiatives
The highlight of the 2019-20 NBA season was a player-led response to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Data & Data Culture
Why Chief Data Officers Must Assume Leadership for Data Success
Top chief data officers share insights on how leaders and organizations can ensure data success.
Culture
Enter the Cube Farm
The office cubicle is the product of a well-intended design philosophy gone astray.
Data & Data Culture
Changing Culture Is Central to Changing Business Models
Leaders need to examine their core beliefs if they want to prosper in a COVID-19 world.
Talent Management
The Best of This Week
Encouraging employees to speak up, growing data and analytics talent, and nimbler supply chains.
Talent Management
How Large Companies Can Grow Their Data and Analytics Talent
Companies need to identify the type of talent they need in order to become data-driven.
Data & Data Culture
Developing a New Leadership Mindset for Data
A new MIT SMR Executive Guide offers managers and decision makers new insights, research, and strategies for leading a data-driven culture.