Developing Strategy

Leaders’ subconscious values influence how they make decisions and achieve their goals.

In B2B, pandemic-driven cost initiatives should be guided by an intense focus on customer value.

Navigating chaos with sensemaking, elevating cybersecurity strategically, and disrupting yourself.

The Fall 2020 issue of MIT SMR offers leaders new strategies for an uncertain business environment.

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

Most companies treat cybersecurity as an operational issue — and miss out on strategic opportunities.

A framework for sensing the unexpected, organizing in response, capturing value, and renewing capabilities.

Three kinds of revenue models make companies increasingly accountable for customer outcomes.

Risk mitigation is an important new priority for business operations during the pandemic.

Strategically guarding against panic, passivity, and impulsivity can help companies cope with uncertainty.

When we can’t talk face to face, businesses must figure out how to cultivate consumer trust.

Companies that show the most agility and resilience in responding to the global pandemic pursue four main strategies.

Three uncertainties confront any disruptive innovation: technology, ecosystem, and business model.

Company practices often conflict with corporate values. Closing the gap starts with communication.

Innovators need to develop their innovation capital so they can turn their ideas into reality.

Pivoting in the pandemic, assessing supplier diversity initiatives, and creating a framework for discussing race.

We’ve collected 12 popular strategy articles to help leaders facing new challenges sharpen their strategic thinking.

In a global pandemic, a quick pivot to a digital business model may help retailers survive.

Sustaining organizational culture beyond the office, creating value with opportunity marketplaces, and avoiding strategy hijacks.

Strategy hijacks — situations in which companies must adjust their strategies due to consumer backlash — can be predicted and avoided.