Product Development

Fueled by technology growth and dependence, digital pollution profoundly impacts society but can be difficult to detect.

Scaling with agile, Elon Musk’s Cybertruck, and Amazon weaves itself into the fabric of America.

Smart companies can take advantage of digital platforms to see financial and sustainability gains.

Companies already use data to make marketing decisions. Will deep learning enable a leap forward?

Pioneering leaders roll up their sleeves, create, and stay relevant.

Partnering with both intrapreneurs and external startups enables companies to accelerate innovation.

New competitors will require consumer packaged goods companies to engage directly with consumers.

Lessons on how to balance efficiency and innovation from NASA’s rebel innovators.

Three impediments in particular work against agile adoption in most organizations.

In the consumer goods industry, small R&D bets often outperform big ones.

New markets for judgment bridge critical gaps between scientific breakthroughs and commercial markets.

Companies often compete as members of networks, making collaboration essential for getting work done.

Ideas that have anchored technological decision-making have become unsuitable for the emerging world.

Innovation success is the result of a deliberate search using key information signals.

The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.

In this webinar, Thomas H. Davenport and Stephan Kudyba discuss the process of developing a new generation of data products.

Live webinar with MIT SMR authors of “Designing and Developing Analytics-Based Data Products.”

The information economy is giving way to an economy focused on analytics-based data products.

What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology: A/B testing as a management tool; telepresence robotics for a more inclusive workforce; three rules for leading successful virtual meetings.

Fast, iterative “virtual research centers” are edging out traditional approaches to R&D.