The New Business of Innovation | MIT Sloan Management Review

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From the Current Issue: Cultivating Innovation

How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?

Jay Rao and Joseph Weintraub

The article includes a survey designed to enable managers to assess a company’s innovation culture.

Organizing R&D for the Future

Marla M. Capozzi et al.

The art of collaboration is one that many research and development organizations have yet to master.

The Trouble With Too Much Board Oversight

Olubunmi Faleye et al.

Is board oversight — helpful as it can be — detrimental to innovation?

Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School

Eva Guinan et al.

This article examines how open innovation was used in diabetes research at Harvard Medical School.

Supply Chains

Do you have the best supply chain strategy for your business? This collection of articles offers thought-provoking ideas about supply chain design and performance.

When One Size Does Not Fit All

David Simchi-Levi et al.

As a business diversifies, it may need more than one supply chain. Here’s how Dell did it.

Improving Environmental Performance in Your Chinese Supply Chain

Erica Plambeck et al.

Leading companies are working with their Chinese suppliers to improve environmental performance.

Is It Time to Rethink Your Manufacturing Strategy?

David Simchi-Levi et al.

For a decade, China was automatically the answer to many manufacturing questions. That’s changing.

Outcome-Driven Supply Chains

Steven A. Melnyk et al.

Supply chains should be designed and managed to deliver one or more of six basic outcomes.

Your Next Supply Chain

An Interview with David Simchi-Levi and Charles H. Fine

How have strategies for supply chain design changed? Two leading thinkers offer insights.

Opportunism Knocks

Mark Vandenbosch and Stephen Sapp

There are five steps managers can take to protect their complex and vulnerable supply chains.

Digital Strategy

The Emergence of Chief Digital Officers

April 29, 2013 | Robert Berkman

A new force is stepping into the C-suite — an upstart whose arrival signals how a company will manage social media and other digital technologies: the chief digital officer, or CDO. Appearing in many industries, CDOs share a similar mandate: provide oversight and strategy, and create a big-picture view of how social and digital technologies can make a difference to the entire organization.

One industry where CDOs are making headway is in higher education. The increased interest and activity in delivery of online classes and the rise of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are spurring administrators to take a deeper look at the role of social and other digital technologies in delivering educational content.

One newly appointed chief digital officer is Sree Sreenivasan at Columbia University. Sreenivasan, who was appointed to his position in July 2012 and reports to the Provost, told us that Columbia created his position to have a single person be responsible for cataloging, coordinating and shepherding what was going on in digital delivery of education, and to think about all of these changes from a broader strategic level.

“For a successful digital business model, your enterprise has to have good content, customer experience and digital platforms. But does your company have to be a leader in all three? We don’t think so — at least not yet.” — Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner

Optimizing Your Digital Business Model

March 19, 2013 | Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner

“Increased focus on oversight can also color the CEO’s perception of board support, which can undermine his or her eagerness to commit to risky but value-enhancing ventures such as corporate innovation.” — Olubunmi Faleye et al.

The Trouble With Too Much Board Oversight

March 19, 2013 | Olubunmi Faleye, Rani Hoitash and Udi Hoitash

“Innovation objectives can slide down the priority list when people are focused on operations.” — Mary C. Lacity and Leslie P. Willcocks

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