Collaboration

Smartphone maker Xiaomi cultivates user pride through user-centered and open innovation.

Email archive data presents patterns that managers can use to improve organizational performance.

When many employees work offsite, a corporate office can become a lonelier and less productive place.

Effectively coordinating supply chains will increasingly require new approaches to data transparency.

Biomarkers Consortium, a public-private partnership in the health industry, presents five lessons in managing collaboration.

Intermountain Healthcare uses data and analytics to improve its health services, including lowering its infection rates.

Chicago nonprofit Christopher House uses data to drive outcomes in providing education services to low-income families.

Social media is a tool that allows autistic workers to better express their unique abilities — and tech companies are taking notice.

Over-reliance on email is sapping people’s time and energy, says author Phil Simon. There are better ways to do things.

Humanyze helps interpret social data so that businesses can identify the best collaborative practices of the most effective people.

Social media is changing how people relate to one another, say social psychologists.

For multinational companies, language barriers are a key obstacle to social business. Can a multilingual approach work?

Employees can be inspired to perform better if their creativity is challenged through teamwork.

Making it safe to be honest about when projects are getting off track can promote cooperative behavior.

An authors’ briefing and Q&A on the findings from MIT Sloan Management Review’s Winter 2015 global sustainability study.

The 2014 Sustainability Report by MIT Sloan Management Review, BCG and the United Nations Global Compact highlights new global collaborations.

An experiment in social networks shows that key knowledge can be transferred without employees realizing it.

Companies are having a tough time finding the data scientists they need — but that doesn’t mean those projects need to halt altogether.

Declaring that a project everyone is excited about is in trouble can be demoralizing. But it’s exactly what can turn things around.

Hot shots get all the attention, but other team members can be the ones who make a group really tick.