Change Management

Based on a global survey, this article discusses operating-model trends at consumer-product companies.

Businesses that don’t understand the connection between business transformation and culture change risk obsolescence.

Front-line employees are uniquely aware of the early symptoms of coming change. Management should heed their insights.

Companies must retrain their employees to fill the roles most closely aligned with their revised strategic directions.

Nudges for less-biased hiring, networking to drive inclusion, and defusing opposition to racial equity initiatives.

The Special Report in MIT SMR‘s Summer 2021 issue looks at how businesses can support a more inclusive workplace culture. Also in this issue: ways to communicate — and disagree — using candor and logic, business’s role in national emergencies, how volunteering helps workers’ skills, and changing the rules to suit turbulent times.

Knowing why racial equity initiatives provoke opposition can help you lead employees through change.

Good arguments at the core of great strategy, the risks of concurrent change initiatives, and the courage to be candid.

New research points to consistency as a pivotal success factor when companies launch concurrent change initiatives.

“Absorbing by observation” while working remotely, prospering in turbulent times with dynamic rules, and centering ESG in quarterly earnings calls.

To prosper in a dynamic business environment, leaders must change their approach to rule-making and adherence.

Leaders can manage large-scale change by helping employees adapt to new identities, not new tasks.

A framework to help leaders understand how they weathered COVID-19 and to keep leveraging their new innovation skills.

In this webinar, Jeffrey D. Camm and Thomas H. Davenport explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the practice of data analytics.

In this webinar, MIT SMR author Eric J. McNulty shares practical tips for leaders leading through the global COVID-19 pandemic.

AI is a powerful tool for innovation when leaders communicate its benefits.

To operate their companies effectively worldwide, leaders need to rethink how work gets done, and where.

To drive major change, companies must link data quality and data science within the organization.

The winner of the 2020 Beckhard Prize is “Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration,” by Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer.

Developing truly innovative strategy requires workshopping your own company’s disruption.