Innovation Strategy
Engineer Your Own Luck
No one can predict the future, but modularizing core capabilities can prepare companies to be ready for the unexpected.
No one can predict the future, but modularizing core capabilities can prepare companies to be ready for the unexpected.
Open innovation requires moving knowledge across divides. Organizational silos are the biggest barriers to success.
Digital collaboration can steer innovators down a disruptive or incremental path, depending on how they use the tools.
Simple rules of thumb can result in more effective decision-making than comprehensive analysis.
Organizations need to take a new approach to governance of digital innovation initiatives.
Research finds fear of failure could keep an innovator from launching a new creative endeavor after an early success.
Research suggests leaders should focus on a use case for cutting-edge technologies first, then develop a business case.
Psychological safety isn’t enough for innovation. Managers need to create conditions for healthy debate.
A new wave of clinical research on promising uses for psychedelic drugs points to potential opportunities for business.
Leaders can improve the odds of design-thinking success by first ensuring that their organization is prepared for it.
L’Oréal’s Stéphane Lannuzel discusses artificial intelligence’s role in technology innovation in the beauty industry.
Sanofi’s Frank Nestle explains how the pharma company is using AI to improve drug discovery and development.
Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.
Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.
New research upends the assumption that criticism always impedes creative brainstorming.
Delivering enterprise applications can be tough and time-consuming — and growing demand for faster delivery makes the job even more challenging.
MIT SMR‘s winter 2022 issue looks at innovation processes in product development and how networks affect culture and diversity.
Reimagining dense office spaces, evolving brand relationships, and accelerating ideation with prototyping tools.
Tools used for rapid prototyping can speed product development when used for idea generation.
Kay Firth-Butterfield (the World Economic Forum), Ya Xu (LinkedIn), and Charlotte Degot (BCG GAMMA) join MIT SMR senior project editor Allison Ryder for a discussion on innovating with artificial intelligence.