Leadership Skills
Our Guide to the Winter 2025 Issue
This issue of MIT SMR focuses on improving work design, implementing AI, increasing employee engagement, and more.
Resource Management
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Organizational Structure
Improve Workflows by Managing Bottlenecks
Learn how to design work systems and resource portfolios to address bottlenecks that affect company performance.
Leading Change
To Adapt During Crisis, Take a Lesson From Jazz
Learn the three changes in leadership approach that helped two prominent symphonies transform during a crisis.
Marketing Strategy
The End of Averages for Marketing Budgets
What’s this year’s average marketing budget? Bad question: That figure misleads marketers who want to benchmark spending.
Disruption
Beware the Pitfalls of Agility
Agility can lead to negative outcomes if leaders don’t recognize the pitfalls in its processes.
Content Sponsored by EY
Brewing Up a Blockchain Solution for Supply Chain Transparency
Learn how Italian beer maker Birra Peroni uses blockchain to meet its sustainability goals.
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Accelerating strategy breakthroughs, transforming the supply chain, and contextualizing office space.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Data, Not Digitalization, Transforms the Post-Pandemic Supply Chain
Digitalization can’t deliver agility or reliability unless you first determine data access, quality, and lineage.
Developing Strategy
Office Space — Sized Extra Large
The pandemic may bring sweeping changes to economic and workplace structures we take for granted.
AI & Machine Learning
#MITSMRChat: Implementing AI
MIT SMR and BCG host a Twitter chat focused on the corporate adoption of AI.
Innovation Strategy
If You Cut Employees Some Slack, Will They Innovate?
Giving people extra time and resources can boost innovation — but only if you match your “slack strategy” to employee type.
Collaboration
Fostering a Team-Oriented Culture at John Hancock
John Hancock’s chief marketing officer describes how the legacy company is organizing for digital.
Collaboration
Let Talent Drive Digital Maturity
Focused on internal networking and upskilling, the marketing organization at John Hancock is well-positioned to compete in a digital world.
Innovation Strategy
Great Ideas Are Getting Harder to Find
While U.S. research efforts are rising substantially, research productivity is sharply declining.
Business Models
Building Scalable Business Models
Many successful companies today leverage business model scalability to achieve profitable growth.
Developing Strategy
Four Logics of Corporate Strategy
In developing corporate strategy, leaders need clarity on how business units fit into the big picture.
Disruption
Reframing Growth Strategy in a Digital Economy
Big corporations need new strategies in a world of digital disruptors, where three new truths rule.
Business Models
Competing With Ordinary Resources
Not every company needs to be built around a strong brand, exceptional talent or exclusive technology.
Climate Change
A New Perspective on Enterprise Resource Management
What if companies used information systems more broadly — not just to measure profits but also to account for the needs of people and the environment?
Leverage Points for Creating a Sustainable World
Innovation coupled with voluntary “limits to growth” are key to creating a more sustainable world.
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