How to Make Data Experiments Powerful
The most effective data experiments augment managerial intuition and exploit unique data.
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Innovation Strategy
Embrace Your Ignorance
The overconfidence of presumed expertise is counterproductive. Instead, data trumps intuition.
Michael Schrage
Executing Strategy
Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School
Open innovation was used in diabetes research to bring greater openness into every stage of research.
Eva Guinan, Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Developing Strategy
How to Change an Organization Without Blowing It Up
Mining the middle ground between wholesale change and pilot projects can improve your organization.
Karen Golden-Biddle
IT Governance & Leadership
The Secrets to Managing Business Analytics Projects
It takes a special breed of project manager to execute business analytics projects.
Stijn Viaene and Annabel Van den Bunder
Project Management
Putting It Together: How to Succeed in Distributed Product Development
Outsourcing complex product development work subjects companies to significant uncertainty.
Jason Amaral, Edward G. Anderson Jr. and Geoffrey G. Parker
IT Governance & Leadership
The 4 Ways IT Is Revolutionizing Innovation
The rising data flood and emerging tools for analyzing it are changing the ways innovation gets done.
An Interview with Erik Brynjolfsson
Innovation Strategy
Value-Creation, Experiments, and Why IT Does Matter
Information technology matters when a company works backward from the value it wants to create.
An Interview with Michael Schrage
Executing Strategy
Do You Have A “Plan B”?
Many companies have trouble making the transition from a failing business model to one that works. Often, one culprit is an inability to experiment.
Alden M. Hayashi
Innovation Strategy
Seeking innovation? Look in new places.
To generate innovative ideas, companies need to look beyond the familiar.
How to innovate in tough times, part II
Innovation consultant Laura Weiss offers tips on innovating during an economic downturn.
Developing Strategy
The Five Stages of Successful Innovation
Defining an innovation process increases companies’ future value.