Developing Strategy
How to Become a Strategic Leader
Do these three key activities to become a better strategic leader.
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An Executive Guide to the Spring 2019 Issue
These summaries will help you navigate our Spring 2019 lineup.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Developing Strategy
A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions
A rigorous process for navigating strategic decisions can mitigate errors and improve judgment.
Daniel Kahneman, Dan Lovallo, and Olivier Sibony
Developing Strategy
The Myths and Realities of Business Ecosystems
Before determining an ecosystem strategy, organizations must first shift to a new perspective and way of thinking.
Jack Fuller, Michael G. Jacobides, and Martin Reeves
Developing Strategy
Six Principles for Strategic Migrations
Successful migration patterns can improve business strategy in your company.
Jeff S. Johnson
Developing Strategy
Buzzword Strategy Generator: Are You Developing Meaningful Strategies?
Is it solid strategy, or just buzzwords? Find out with our interactive strategy buzzword generator.
AI & Machine Learning
The Risk of Machine-Learning Bias (and How to Prevent It)
Machine learning is susceptible to unintended biases that require careful planning to avoid.
Chris DeBrusk
Developing Strategy
Is the Threat of Digital Disruption Overhyped?
A reader argued that if companies are managed effectively, radical change shouldn’t be necessary.
Reported by Bruce Posner
Analytics & Business Intelligence
What Sets Breakthrough Strategies Apart
Innovative strategies depend more on novel, well-reasoned theories than on well-crunched numbers.
Teppo Felin and Todd Zenger
Leading Change
The Case Against Agility
Ideas that have anchored technological decision-making have become unsuitable for the emerging world.
Amit S. Mukherjee
Global Strategy
The Five Steps All Leaders Must Take in the Age of Uncertainty
Leaders must move beyond managing their own firms to become active influencers within broader systems.
Martin Reeves, Simon Levin, Johann D. Harnoss, and Daichi Ueda
Executing Strategy
The Critical Difference Between Complex and Complicated
When you manage complex problems as if they’re complicated, you’re setting your company up to fail.
Theodore Kinni
Create Your Company’s Future
Recently, MIT SMR readers have been looking for information on scenario planning — a trend that may reflect current social, political, and economic uncertainty. This trend led to our Summer 2017 special report on creating your company’s future.
Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Developing Strategy
Harnessing the Secret Structure of Innovation
Innovation success is the result of a deliberate search using key information signals.
Martin Reeves, Thomas Fink, Ramiro Palma, and Johann Harnoss
AI & Machine Learning
Rise of the Strategy Machines
While humans may be ahead of computers in the ability to create strategy today, we shouldn’t be complacent about our dominance.
Thomas H. Davenport
Leadership Skills
Stop Jumping to Solutions!
To get the best results from a decision matrix, managers should expand the options used to frame it.
Albrecht Enders, Andreas König, and Jean-Louis Barsoux
Developing Strategy
The Lost Art of Thinking in Large Organizations
A focus on execution is undermining managers’ ability to develop strategy and leadership skills.
Duncan Simester
Data & Data Culture
How Time-to-Insight Is Driving Big Data Business Investment
A poll of Fortune 1000 executives shows that obtaining insights rapidly is the true value of Big Data.
Randy Bean
Leadership Skills
How to Manage Too Many Good Choices
It’s easier to make good decisions if you remove yourself from information overload and consider choices more abstractly.
Bruce Posner
Leadership Skills
Why You Decide the Way You Do
Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.