Strategic Thinking

Executives must confront a strategic planning blind spot: their assumptions about the future business context.

Professional services firms with longevity hold lessons for others working to survive disruptions in turbulent markets.

Four common mistakes can derail leaders as they make strategic plans aimed at making their organizations future-ready.

A more inclusive strategy-making process is needed when disruptions come from all directions.

Creating consistently great business strategies demands systematic constructive debate and logical rigor.

Companies have more options than they realize when choosing a strategy for responding to a changing environment.

Seven evaluation criteria leaders can use to assess and strengthen the business frameworks they create.

Post-pandemic work arrangements, linking inclusion and organizational learning, and smarter pricing.

Leaders can make smarter customer strategy decisions in turbulent times through sound economic and strategic thinking.

When environments are complex and dynamic, strategy is about adaptability.

The Fall 2020 issue of MIT SMR offers leaders new strategies for an uncertain business environment.

We’ve collected 12 popular strategy articles to help leaders facing new challenges sharpen their strategic thinking.

CEOs who manage crises using intuition, logic, and emotion are the best role models.

From avoiding bias to fostering successful virtual work — how leaders can learn from the pandemic to make better decisions.

In unpredictable, high-stress situations, cognitive decision biases may lead to poor decisions.

The most popular articles of 2019 address continuous learning, responsiveness, and adaptability.

Getting ahead of industry disruption, successful frameworks for strategic decision-making, and creating value through customer experience.

#MITSMRChat participants shared ideas about best practices for organizations implementing AI.

Platform markets are suddenly all the rage with B2B companies. And for good reason.

Why do some business ecosystems dominate their markets over time while others fail?