Developing Strategy
Most Businesses Should Neither ‘Pivot’ nor ‘Double Down’
Companies have more options than they realize when choosing a strategy for responding to a changing environment.
Change Management
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Organizational Behavior
The Best of This Week
“Absorbing by observation” while working remotely, prospering in turbulent times with dynamic rules, and centering ESG in quarterly earnings calls.
Organizational Behavior
Turbulent Times Demand Dynamic Rules
To prosper in a dynamic business environment, leaders must change their approach to rule-making and adherence.
Leading Change
How Organizational Change Disrupts Our Sense of Self
Leaders can manage large-scale change by helping employees adapt to new identities, not new tasks.
Innovation Strategy
A Framework for Innovation in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
A framework to help leaders understand how they weathered COVID-19 and to keep leveraging their new innovation skills.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Machine Learning and Data Analytics in the Pandemic Era
In this webinar, Jeffrey D. Camm and Thomas H. Davenport explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the practice of data analytics.
Leading Change
Out of the Crisis, Into the Unknown
In this webinar, MIT SMR author Eric J. McNulty shares practical tips for leaders leading through the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Innovation Strategy
‘The First Day Is the Worst Day’: DHL’s Gina Chung on How AI Improves Over Time
AI is a powerful tool for innovation when leaders communicate its benefits.
Leading Change
Decentralizing Your Operating and Talent Models the Right Way
To operate their companies effectively worldwide, leaders need to rethink how work gets done, and where.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Getting Serious About Data and Data Science
To drive major change, companies must link data quality and data science within the organization.
Organizational Behavior
The 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
The winner of the 2020 Beckhard Prize is “Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration,” by Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer.
Business Models
Disrupt Your Own Business First
Developing truly innovative strategy requires workshopping your own company’s disruption.
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
Strategizing for change, leading with agility, and developing AI strategy.
Innovation Strategy
Changing How We Think About Change
A fundamental source of confusion about change is the use of that single term — change — to refer to three distinct strategies.
Talent Management
Invest In People to Best Manage Through Disruption
The most effective response to disruption is a long-view focus on employee development.
AI & Machine Learning
Why the ‘Just Do Something’ Strategy for AI Won’t Work
AI strategy will only get big results if companies focus on what AI can do at scale.
AI & Machine Learning
An Executive Guide to the Winter 2020 Issue
MIT SMR Winter 2020 examines workers’ emotions and education, tech dilemmas, and how best to transform.
Leading Change
You’re Going Digital — Now What?
To plan for change that will stick, leaders must first understand how employees adopt digital tools.
Leadership Skills
Five Rules for Leading in a Digital World
Times of rapid change call for a new leadership model.
Technology Implementation
Unleashing the Power of Blockchain in the Enterprise
If companies want to compete with blockchain, they must first cooperate to develop standards.