Collaboration

The winter 2022 issue of MIT SMR provides a collection of articles to help leaders overcome the obstacles that can get in the way of innovation.

Advice to help business leaders create the conditions innovators need to develop breakthrough ideas for the marketplace.

New research points to a strong, multidimensional link between AI use and improvements in organizational culture.

World-changing innovations are grounded in a culture of optimism and team learning.

The next wave of social innovation is coming from employee-led initiatives.

Virtual, tech-mediated collaboration carries risks of isolation, exclusion, surveillance, and self-censorship.

Ten key cultural factors for employee retention, the invisible burdens of collaboration, and the problem with certainty.

The emotional desire for certainty often keeps us from seeing other perspectives and understanding how decisions get made.

In his new book, Beyond Collaboration Overload, Rob Cross explains how to avoid excessive collaboration while still reaping its benefits.

Five principles can help leaders decide when it’s best to hold meetings with both colocated and virtual participants.

Mapping employees’ working relationships can help guide leaders’ decisions about post-pandemic work models.

Reimagined workspaces can enable interactions that foster more meaningful human connections in our work lives.

A global study of online hackathons offers best practices for designing virtual ideation sessions.

The pandemic has upended business. Let’s consider how managers should respond.

Research points to five ways organizations can better support early-career employees in a fully remote work environment.

Will Grannis of Google Cloud explains the organization’s collaborative approach to AI and machine learning innovation.

Leaders can make meetings more effective and less fatiguing by incorporating feedback from their teams.

Lyft’s Craig Martell talks education, eliminating bias, and cross-functional collaboration on machine learning projects.

Consider these six guiding principles for how companies can harness internal competition as a force for good.

Leaders must plan now for a workplace forever changed by COVID-19.