Technology Innovation Strategy
What We’ve Learned So Far About Blockchain for Business
First-generation blockchain applications are delivering value by removing friction in shared ecosystems.
Breakthrough Innovation
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Technology Innovation Strategy
How Machine Discovery Can Accelerate Solutions to Society’s Big Problems
New technologies can help solve critical global problems in energy, medicine, and urban planning.
Mark Purdy and Max Klymenko
Business Models
In the Face of a Pandemic, Can Pharma Shift Gears?
Pharma’s existing model may be a liability in the race to develop drugs and vaccines to combat COVID-19.
Markus Scholz and N. Craig Smith
Innovation Strategy
Why Large Companies Struggle With Lean
Large companies have found that applying the principles of lean is more complicated than expected.
Steve Blank, interviewed by Frieda Klotz
Innovation Strategy
Space: The Final Economic Frontier?
Fifty years after Apollo 11, will commercial companies be the next big success for space activity?
Supply Chains & Logistics
Transforming Manufacturing and Supply Chains With 4D Printing
The next transformative emerging technology could be 4D printing.
Monika Mahto and Brenna Sniderman
Developing Strategy
How a Group of NASA Renegades Transformed Mission Control
Lessons on how to balance efficiency and innovation from NASA’s rebel innovators.
Loizos Heracleous, Christina Wawarta, Steven Gonzalez, and Sotirios Paroutis
Innovation Strategy
Grow Faster by Changing Your Innovation Narrative
To bolster innovation, use a growth-affirming innovation narrative supported by four proven levers.
George S. Day and Gregory P. Shea
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
AI & Machine Learning
How Human-Computer ‘Superminds’ Are Redefining the Future of Work
As smart technologies embed deeper into human processes, a more powerful form of collaboration is emerging.
Thomas W. Malone
Executing Strategy
A Better Way to Bring Science to Market
New markets for judgment bridge critical gaps between scientific breakthroughs and commercial markets.
Joshua S. Gans
Analytics & Business Intelligence
What Sets Breakthrough Strategies Apart
Innovative strategies depend more on novel, well-reasoned theories than on well-crunched numbers.
Teppo Felin and Todd Zenger
Developing Strategy
Which Rules Are Worth Breaking?
Disrupting the status quo is often valuable, but taken too far, it can lead to ethical crises.
R. Edward Freeman and Bidhan (Bobby) Parmar
Disruption
12 Essential Innovation Insights
We searched the MIT SMR archives to find 12 essential innovation insights.
Bruce Posner and Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Innovation Strategy
How to Succeed with Radical Innovation
Highly capable firms are often reluctant to take risks, but they have much to gain if they try to innovate.
J.P. Eggers (NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business), interviewed by Frieda Klotz
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Changing the Game with IoT
Businesses need to move beyond short-sighted use cases to realize the full potential of the Internet of Things.
Niall O’Doherty and Erik Brynjolfsson
Developing Strategy
Finding a Lower-Risk Path to High-Impact Innovations
High-impact innovations have built-in uncertainty — but careful strategizing can reduce the risk.
Joseph V. Sinfield and Freddy Solis
Developing Strategy
Debating Disruptive Innovation
Three experts provide their responses to the article “How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?”
Juan Pablo Vázquez Sampere, Martin J. Bienenstock, and Ezra W. Zuckerman
Data & Data Culture
Enough Health Care Data for an Army: The Million Veteran Program
U.S. veterans are helping customize medicine through big data that will unravel the role of genes in health and disease.
J. Michael Gaziano and Saiju Pyarajan (Million Veteran Program, VA Boston Healthcare System, and Harvard Medical School), interviewed by Sam Ransbotham
Climate Change
Sustainability-Oriented Innovation: A Bridge to Breakthroughs
Businesses see the value of sustainability-oriented innovation but face barriers that make the transition difficult.
Jason Jay, Sergio Gonzalez and Mathew Swibel
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