Climate Change
Sustainability Reporting As a Tool for Better Risk Management
Sustainability reporting isn’t about being eco-friendly — it’s about managing business risks.
Business Process Optimization
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Analytics & Business Intelligence
Once You Align the Analytical Stars, What’s Next?
What do you do when you’ve got an unending stream of quality data, and processes in place for analytics… but you’re not sure what to do with it all?
Sam Ransbotham
Data & Data Culture
What Is Analytics Amplifying in Your Organization?
Analytics acts as an amplifier for business processes — but companies should keep four principles in mind to avoid increasing “noise.”
Sam Ransbotham
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Data Analytics Makes the Transition From Novelty to Commodity
When using analytics becomes a routine practice, four key changes will follow.
Sam Ransbotham
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Four Traps of Predictive Analytics
Companies seeking to use analytics for predictive decision making commonly make these four errors.
Michael Fitzgerald
Culture
Revisiting Complexity in the Digital Age
Digital technologies are helping companies finesse trade-offs between complexity’s costs and benefits.
Martin Mocker, Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Capitalizing on Data by Building Organizational Capabilities
Using data analytics to reinvent health care requires more than just technical know-how — it also requires flexibility.
Stephanie Woerner
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Technology Solutions for Health Care Need a Continuous Process
WellPoint’s efforts to change health care billing highlights the need for an effective innovation process.
Sam Ransbotham
Culture
What to Expect From a Corporate Lean Program
“Lean” programs can be powerful tools for improving performance – if managers know what to expect.
Torbjørn Netland and Kasra Ferdows
Data & Data Culture
Preparing Analytics for a Strategic Role
The way health care is billed in the U.S. system is part of the reason costs are so high. WellPoint is looking to analytics to play a strategic role in changing that.
Michael Fitzgerald
Global Strategy
Accelerated Innovation: The New Challenge From China
Chinese companies are reengineering new product development in ways that reduce lead times.
Peter J. Williamson and Eden Yin
Social Media
Procedural Versus Strategic Approaches to Social Media
Younger employees often have procedural understanding of social media but need strategic vision.
Gerald C. (Jerry) Kane
Boards & Corporate Governance
The Role of the Chief Strategy Officer
A guide to help boards and CEOs decide which type of CSO is ideal for their leadership teams.
Taman H. Powell and Duncan N. Angwin
Marketing Strategy
Is It Time to Rethink Your Pricing Strategy?
Almost any business can improve its pricing performance, if it broaches pricing in a structured way.
Andreas Hinterhuber and Stephan Liozu
Business Models
Creating Value Through Business Model Innovation
Here are six questions for executives to consider when thinking about business model innovation.
Raphael Amit and Christoph Zott
Collaboration
In Praise of Individual Innovators
The Fall 2011 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review delves into innovation, including the intriguing role of individual innovators.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Technology Implementation
Mind the Adoption Gap: Why Do We Still Email Documents?
Adoption gaps are huge issues for companies making everything from baby steps to big strides in embracing new technologies.