AI & Machine Learning
The Best of This Week
Looking back on disruptive innovation theory and preparing for smarter crowdsourcing.
Problem-Solving
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Innovation Strategy
Make Your Crowd Smart
Solving complex problems with crowdsourcing means tailoring the crowd to the problem’s scope.
Christoph Riedl, Victor P. Seidel, Anita W. Woolley, and Gerald C. Kane
Collaboration
Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration
Alternating between always-on connectivity and heads-down focus is essential for problem-solving.
Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer
Developing Strategy
How to Become a Strategic Leader
Do these three key activities to become a better strategic leader.
Julie Zhuo
Customers
Five Key Elements of Problem-Centric Selling
Here’s how to ensure your sales teams know their customers’ problems.
J. Keenan
AI & Machine Learning
Digital Transformation Opens New Questions — and New Problems to Solve
Viewing technology as a set of solutions misses opportunities to innovate in bigger, bolder ways.
Hal Gregersen
Developing Strategy
Tangled Webs and Executive Naïveté
Leaders in a digital world have to navigate more complexity than ever before.
Amit S. Mukherjee
Innovation Strategy
Creating Better Innovation Measurement Practices
Improving a company’s measurement of innovation requires a holistic view of its innovation process.
Anders Richtnér, Anna Brattström, Johan Frishammar, Jennie Björk, and Mats Magnusson
Executing Strategy
The Critical Difference Between Complex and Complicated
When you manage complex problems as if they’re complicated, you’re setting your company up to fail.
Theodore Kinni
Financial Management & Risk
Saving Money Through Structured Problem-Solving
Closely observing how work is done in your business can yield many opportunities for improvements.
Nelson P. Repenning, Don Kieffer, and Michael Morales
Leadership Skills
The Most Underrated Skill in Management
Articulating what problem you’re trying to solve is an important (and underrated) management skill.
Nelson P. Repenning, Don Kieffer, and Todd Astor
AI & Machine Learning
Predicting a Future Where the Future Is Routinely Predicted
AI’s value for managers lies in its ability to predict equipment failures and assess human emotions.
Andrew W. Moore
Collaboration
Learning the Art of Business Improvisation
There are positive correlations between improvisation in product development and team performance.
Edivandro Carlos Conforto, Eric Rebentisch, and Daniel Amaral
Content Sponsored by EY
A Promising Analytics Approach for Oil and Gas Companies
GE is positioning itself to make the Industrial Internet a strong component of a more efficient oil and gas industry.
Fay Shong
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Sustaining an Analytics Advantage
Companies that are experienced in using analytics successfully offer five lessons for corporate leaders.
Peter C. Bell
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Harnessing Quant Power
A recent book by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim advises companies on how to capture the power of big data.
Leslie Brokaw
Culture
The Pitfalls of Project Status Reporting
Will your next big IT project be on time and deliver what was promised? Maybe — but maybe not.
Mark Keil, H. Jeff Smith, Charalambos L. Iacovou and Ronald L. Thompson
Collaboration
How To Develop a Useful “Why” Statement
Asking why you’re embarking on a project before you begin raises the project’s chance of success.
Leslie Brokaw
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Business Quandary? Use a Competition to Crowdsource Best Answers
An Interview with Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle.
Anthony Goldbloom (Kaggle Inc.), interviewed by Renee Boucher Ferguson
