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IT-DRIVEN INNOVATION

How IT is reinventing the way innovation happens

THE NEW INFORMATION OPPORTUNITY

Companies are either collecting more data than they know what to do with—or could collect it if they tried. The best ones are finding new competitive advantages in the “data flood”—new ways to capitalize on exponentially increasing computer power, storage capacity, communications speed, and “smart-world” instrumentation. Most of all, they’re finding new ways to make innovation happen every day.

A Billion Brains Are Better Than One

MIT Sloan’s Thomas W. Malone, author of The Future of Work, on how the smartest companies will use emerging technology to tap the power of collective intelligence. Watch video highlights from the interview or read the full article here.

Play to Your Workforce’s Strengths

Intel strategy futurist Jim Fister argues that workers in the arriving generation aren’t just tech-savvy—they’re naturals at collaboration. And their employers, he says, don’t get it. Watch video highlights from the interview or read the full article here.

Putting the Science in Management Science?

Andrew McAfee, research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, says new IT capabilities will bring science to management decision-making. Watch video highlights from the interview or read the full article here.

The 4 Ways IT is Revolutionizing Innovation

MIT Sloan economist and digital-business expert Erik Brynjolfsson tells how the rising data flood, and emerging tools for analyzing it,

 

FROM THE MAGAZINE

Winter 2012: Cover Story

Winning the Race with Ever-Smarter Machines

 

Recent progress in information technology has been both rapid and dramatic. Is your company ready?