Managing Your Career
Managing the Distraction-Focus Paradox
Professional success in today’s hyper-connected workplace demands “distracted focus.”
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Innovation Strategy
Capturing Value From Free Digital Goods
Companies can improve productivity by tapping into free digital goods and paying their own employees to contribute.
Frank Nagle
AI & Machine Learning
Unpacking the AI-Productivity Paradox
AI has driven soaring expectations and stock prices. So why has productivity growth declined?
Erik Brynjolfsson, Daniel Rock, and Chad Syverson
Innovation Strategy
Great Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find
While U.S. research efforts are rising substantially, research productivity is sharply declining.
Nicholas Bloom, Chad Jones, John Van Reenen, and Michael Webb
Talent Management
How Digital Media Will Bring Out Our Best Selves in the Workplace
The best use of digital technology is assisting human workers to maximize innate capabilities.
Michael Schrage
Automation
When the Luddites Fought Back
Automation and robotics could have far-reaching effects on labor — ones we’ve seen before.
Bruce Posner
Technology Innovation Strategy
How Future Workspaces Will Improve Productivity and Creativity
In this webinar, MIT professor Carlo Ratti discusses how new digital tools will shape the workplace of the future.
Carlo Ratti (MIT Senseable City Lab)
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Monitor, Measure, Incentivize: Is Management as Simple as That?
Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom’s study of 30,000 firms identifies the practices common to well managed operations.
Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), interviewed by Frieda Klotz
Organizational Behavior
Getting Workplace Safety Right
Companies aiming to be competitive in the long term do not see safety and productivity as trade-offs.
Mark Pagell, Anthony Veltri, and David Johnston
Collaboration
Has Your Office Become a Lonely Place?
When many employees work offsite, a corporate office can become a lonelier and less productive place.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Talent Management
Does Your Boss Want You to Sleep?
Being fresh for the work day requires prioritizing sleep — which organizations can do a better job encouraging.
Leslie Brokaw
Content Sponsored by Capgemini Consulting
Building Capabilities for Digital Transformation
In a video panel the authors of Leading Digital discuss companies using digital for advantage.
George Westerman, Didier Bonnet and Andrew McAfee, interviewed by Michael Hopkins
Culture
What to Expect From a Corporate Lean Program
“Lean” programs can be powerful tools for improving performance – if managers know what to expect.
Torbjørn Netland and Kasra Ferdows
Managing Your Career
Own Your Time, Boost Your Productivity
MIT Sloan’s Robert Pozen offers strategies to make work time more productive.
Leslie Brokaw
Inbox Zero: Is it Worth the Effort?
A cluttered email box can be as distracting as a cluttered office. One way to tame the email beast: “delete, delegate, respond, defer or do” each time you open a message.
Security & Privacy
Can Sensors Fuel Productivity Growth?
General Electric argues that productivity growth will increase as the industrial Internet emerges.
Michael Fitzgerald
