Organizational Transformation
Get Work Back on Track With Visual Management
Visualizing how work flows enables leaders and their teams to better manage their activities as a coherent system.
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Visualizing how work flows enables leaders and their teams to better manage their activities as a coherent system.
A set of measures for evaluating environmental health can help businesses focus their sustainability efforts.
Colleagues are better able to resolve disagreements cooperatively when there’s a clear problem-solving process in place.
Direct mail is reemerging as a profitable marketing channel as digital ad clutter fatigues consumers.
Robots and humans are essential partners in most warehouse settings. AI can help them work together more effectively.
This approach to analyzing circular business models can help companies quantify a product’s full life-cycle value.
MIT Sloan Management Review’s summer 2025 issue includes articles that examine how business and society measure success.
Businesses with more international C-suite executives than industry peers consistently outperform them.
In our rush to do more, faster, we’re spending less time thinking deeply. The SPACE framework can help change that.
A survey of U.S. and U.K. professionals shows that many want more remote-work opportunities and flexible schedules.
Once AI becomes pervasive, it no longer gives companies an edge over rivals — but cultivating creativity can.
New chips offer novel approaches to quantum computers’ error-correction challenges, but there’s work still to be done.
Most boards neglect engaging in timely planning for CEO transitions. Here’s how to make it a priority.
Acknowledging your team’s anxieties and sharing your own can help build connection and optimism amid uncertainty.
Companies can help U.S. universities struggling to import the international doctoral talent needed to fuel innovation.
Flattening an organizational hierarchy tends to attract employees who thrive on autonomy, leading to a cultural shift.
Researcher and author Juliet B. Schor explains how a shorter workweek can benefit employees and employers alike.
Western policies toward Chinese businesses fall into three categories that require different approaches from executives.
A new way of quantifying the value of time goes beyond productivity to measure time’s subjective value to individuals.
Once AI becomes pervasive, it no longer gives companies an edge over rivals — but cultivating creativity can.