Today’s leaders must navigate operations challenges ranging from supply chain disruptions to tariffs and trade wars. Apply this advice from MIT SMR experts as you seek to boost supply chain transparency, improve resiliency, and prepare for inevitable surprises.
Operations
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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Supply Chain Transparency & Resilience
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Leading Change
Business, Politics, and Cultivating Resilience
MIT SMR’s fall 2024 issue highlights the need for personal and organizational resilience amid global uncertainty.
Performance Management
How Workplace Safety Improves Performance
OSHA’s longest-serving administrator discusses effective safety approaches and their impact on operational excellence.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Make Smarter Investments in Resilient Supply Chains
Real options can help companies value resilience investments to maintain supply chain capabilities no matter the crisis.
Supply Chains & Logistics
How Auditor Working Conditions Limit Supply Chain Transparency
Factory inspections yield more thorough and honest assessments when protections for auditors’ safety are in place.
Quality & Service
Know Your Own Strength
MIT Sloan Management Review’s summer 2024 issue highlights ways to better support customers, partners, and employees.
Customers
Acing Value-Based Sales
Selling value requires more than quantifying benefits. It demands a deep commitment to collaborating with customers.
Security & Privacy
The CEO’s Cyber Resilience Playbook
CEOs who led their companies through serious cyberattacks share lessons learned and ways to boost your cyber resilience.
Supply Chains & Logistics
A Tale of Two Hot Sauces: Spicing Up Diversification
The dueling fortunes of two hot sauce companies demonstrate the power of strategic diversification.
Global Strategy
Reality Check: Deglobalization
There’s a widespread belief that U.S. companies are increasingly choosing to deglobalize. But is that really happening?
Technology Implementation
Scaling Automation: Two Proven Paths to Success
Two automation initiatives succeeded by scoring potential processes and combining technical and process knowledge.