Innovation Strategy
Unleash the Unexpected for Radical Innovation
Giving more new ideas an opportunity to develop over time can give rise to unexpected breakthrough innovations.
Breakthrough Innovation
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New Product Development
AI in Your Living Room: Peloton’s Sanjay Nichani
Sanjay Nichani discusses how Peloton Interactive is using computer vision technology in its newest home fitness product.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
New Product Development
Extreme Innovation With AI: Stanley Black & Decker’s Mark Maybury
Stanley Black & Decker’s CTO discusses responsible and sustainable AI and how the company uses AI to innovate.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Leading Change
Why Outside Perspectives Are Critical for Innovation Breakthroughs
The story of the first Black woman granted a medical patent underscores the value of novel perspectives for innovation.
Jean-Louis Barsoux, Cyril Bouquet, and Michael Wade
Collaboration
How Collaboration Needs Change From Mind to Marketplace
Advice to help business leaders create the conditions innovators need to develop breakthrough ideas for the marketplace.
Jill E. Perry-Smith
Culture
The Best of This Week
Making better AI-based decisions, empowering remote teams, and building a learning culture to boost innovation.
The MIT SMR Editors
Skills & Learning
Three Steps to Building a Learning Culture That Delivers Innovation
World-changing innovations are grounded in a culture of optimism and team learning.
Ori Mor
Data & Data Culture
AI and the COVID-19 Vaccine: Moderna’s Dave Johnson
Moderna’s chief data and AI officer explains how AI helped the pharma company develop a COVID-19 vaccine in record time.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
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.
Mary Lacity and Remko Van Hoek
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
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