Automation
How to Avoid All-or-Nothing Thinking in Your Tech Strategy
Three crucial steps can help companies overcome legacy approaches — without automating everything.
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Developing Strategy
Preparing for the Risky World of Extended Reality
Six risks that business leaders can begin to strategize around now.
Boards & Corporate Governance
Don’t Set Your Next CEO Up to Fail
At the heart of many botched appointments is the lack of a clear mandate.
Global Strategy
Why Multinationals Should Consider Geographic Complexity First
New research offers companies a framework for managing successful country portfolios.
Sustainability
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Scaling with agile, Elon Musk’s Cybertruck, and Amazon weaves itself into the fabric of America.
Business Models
What It Means To Be a Tech Company
A look at WeWork’s free fall, Amazon’s effect on business and society, and the sharing economy.
Project Management
Making It Easier to Manage and Scale Digital Projects
Using systematic processes to prototype, test, and launch ideas can help you scale agile benefits.
Organizational Behavior
Redefining Work for New Value: The Next Opportunity
Redesigning jobs should be seen as a process that enables work to be redefined to create new value.
Innovation Strategy
Why Large Companies Struggle With Lean
Large companies have found that applying the principles of lean is more complicated than expected.
Developing Strategy
The Five Bestselling MIT SMR Articles of 2019
Getting ahead of industry disruption, successful frameworks for strategic decision-making, and creating value through customer experience.
Executing Strategy
How Digital Changes the Role of Leaders
Transformation strategies are bound to flop unless leaders evolve in some pretty dramatic ways.
Developing Strategy
Should Antitrust Intervene to Break Up Big Tech?
How should antitrust policy shape the future of Big Tech?
Digital Marketing
Is Deep Learning a Game Changer for Marketing Analytics?
Companies already use data to make marketing decisions. Will deep learning enable a leap forward?
Innovation Strategy
How Vigilant Companies Gain an Edge in Turbulent Times
A systematic approach to identifying potential threats can help companies respond to disruption.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Every Number Tells a Story
No matter how compelling it seems, data alone won’t win people over unless infused with a story.
Boards & Corporate Governance
How Companies Can Prepare for Sudden CEO Turnover
A CEO’s sudden departure creates uncertainty — unless the board already knows whom it wants to hire.
Leadership Skills
What Does It Mean to Lead?
Experts share their perspectives on where leadership is headed in a digital world.
Leading Change
Take a Wrecking Ball to Your Company’s Iconic Practices
As organizations face disruptive threats, their cultural values can thwart needed change.
AI & Machine Learning
The Best of This Week
A human-AI workforce, today’s tech bubble, dealing with deregulation, a misplaced focus on metrics.
Developing Strategy
Don’t Let Metrics Critics Undermine Your Business
The true underperformers in this digital disruption era are not measures but their managers.