Developing Strategy
Our Guide to the Summer 2024 Issue
This issue of MIT SMR focuses on analytics, the challenges of advancing artificial intelligence, and business strategy.
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
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Data & Data Culture
Managing Data Privacy Risk in Advanced Analytics
Gaining value from data assets that include customers’ personal information requires advanced data protection tactics.
AI & Machine Learning
How Generative AI Can Support Advanced Analytics Practice
The natural language capabilities of LLMs can augment the predictive powers of advanced analytics.
AI & Machine Learning
Avoid ML Failures by Asking the Right Questions
Checking assumptions and mapping out work processes can help ensure that ML solutions fit the job to be done.
Technology Implementation
Auditing Algorithmic Risk
Two frameworks can help organizations identify potential harms posed by algorithms, AI tools, or large language models.
AI & Machine Learning
Three Things to Know About Prompting LLMs
Apply these techniques when crafting prompts for large language models to elicit more relevant responses.
Content sponsored by Persistent Systems
Data-Driven Health Care: Enhancing Patient Outcomes Through Digital Engineering
A combination of biology and digital engineering is saving lives via improved disease detection.
AI & Machine Learning
The GenAI Blind Spot Leaders Have Now
Learn which GenAI issues deserve more attention in this brief video with MIT Sloan CIO Symposium speakers.
AI & Machine Learning
Nudge Users to Catch Generative AI Errors
Prompting users to spot errors when using generative AI to complete reports improves the accuracy of the final product.
New Product Development
If 10% of the World Were Developers: GitHub’s Mario Rodriguez
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, GitHub’s Mario Rodriguez discusses AI’s potential to change the future of coding.
Data & Data Culture
Building a Data-Driven Culture: Three Mistakes to Avoid
Persuading employees to use data to make better decisions requires both top-down leadership and grassroots initiatives.
Equality
AI Hype and Skepticism: Economist Paul Romer
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer discusses the opportunities AI brings to education.
AI & Machine Learning
How AI Skews Our Sense of Responsibility
When humans are in the loop with an AI system, they may not feel a sense of responsibility to intervene if things go wrong.
AI & Machine Learning
The Hazards of Putting Ethics on Autopilot
Digital nudges can encourage reactive thinking and limit employees’ ethical thinking.
New Product Development
Lights, AI, Action: Wonder Dynamics’s Tye Sheridan
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Wonder Dynamics’s cofounder discusses an AI tool that enables faster, more cost-effective animation.
Leadership Skills
Want Better GenAI Results? Try Speed Bumps
Learn why humans miss generative AI mistakes and how AI speed bumps help, in this short video.
IT Governance & Leadership
AI-Related Risks Test the Limits of Organizational Risk Management
Experts debate how effectively organizations are adjusting risk management practices to govern AI.
Automation
How Grassroots Automation Speeds Digital Success
Learn how grassroots automation helps companies speed up digital transformation efforts.
Data & Data Culture
How Lufthansa Shapes Data-Driven Transformation Leaders
Lufthansa launched an effective program to turn all its leaders into data leaders and propel its digital transformation.
AI & Machine Learning
AI and Statistics: Perfect Together
Business leaders can identify and avoid flawed AI models by employing statistical methods and statistics experts.