Frontiers
Innovation Strategy How Temporary Assignments Boost Innovation
Front-line manufacturing workers contribute more valuable ideas after they’re briefly assigned to other company sites.
Philipp B. Cornelius, Bilal Gokpinar, and Fabian J. Sting
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Customers
To Cut Costs, Know Your Customer
In B2B, pandemic-driven cost initiatives should be guided by an intense focus on customer value.
Vikas Mittal et al.
Boards & Corporate Governance
Why Your Board Needs a Plan for AI Oversight
Boards will need increased technology fluency to provide adequate oversight of AI risk management.
Karen Silverman
Technology Implementation
Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World
Despite advances in automation, good people and good techniques remain essential to manual work.
Matt Beane and Erik Brynjolfsson
Technology Innovation Strategy
Getting Smarter About Smart Buildings
By better integrating human and device intelligence, we can foster collective intelligence.
Ethan Bernstein
Global Strategy
Why Our Knowledge Economy Can Survive the New Age of Pestilence
Past pandemics changed the course of history, but our knowledge economy may limit the impact of COVID-19.
Joel Mokyr
Leadership Skills
Being the Agile Boss
Leading through difficult times requires agility to leverage the turbulence around you.
Linda A. Hill
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Can Surveillance AI Make the Workplace Safe?
Employers could use surveillance tools — with constraints — to keep workers safe and healthy.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Organizational Behavior
Technology in the Pandemic: Recreate the Office or Repurpose It?
Managers face a choice: use technology to recreate employees’ former office work lives, or craft a new strategy.
Eliana Crosina and Beth Schinoff
Technology Innovation Strategy
Solving the Problem of Siloed IT in Organizations
Focusing on better conversations can improve collaboration and unlock creative solutions to business problems.
Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Fredrick
Developing Strategy
Office Space — Sized Extra Large
The pandemic may bring sweeping changes to economic and workplace structures we take for granted.
