Developing Strategy

Digital disruption is not always an organization’s best option. Here’s how to decide whether to disrupt or adapt.

Apply these four lessons to successfully put employees at the heart of strategic planning and benefit from their input.

This issue of MIT SMR focuses on analytics, the challenges of advancing artificial intelligence, and business strategy.

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

A data monetization matrix can help leaders assess opportunities and approaches for converting data into revenue.

The fall 2023 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review examines innovation systems and strategies for business leaders.

A more logical approach to risk management can help leaders sustain value generation through disruption and uncertainty.

Business leaders who write competitors’ actions off as irrational risk getting blind-sided.

Shifting emphasis from customer lifetime value to customer portfolio lifetime value can drive future revenue and lower costs.

Black hat workshops can help you model your company’s competitive landscape before making the next strategic move.

Experts consider whether early-entrant platform businesses like Uber and Netflix have lost their first-mover advantage.

Solving big, systemic problems will require organizations to come together to develop strategies as a group.

Experts consider whether generative AI tools like ChatGPT will refuel Google’s and Microsoft’s search engine rivalry.

Research shows that a company’s confessions to past wrongs enhances people’s perception of its corporate responsibility.

Not defining a problem well is one of the biggest obstacles to good decisions; use this simple story structure to help.

MIT SMR’s top articles of 2022 focused on employee engagement, toxic culture, and transformative leadership.

Experts consider whether charging for user verification will lead to increased user engagement and trust on Twitter.

Companies stand to benefit from blockchain if they first create a strategic road map and learn from others’ successes.

Companies must be prepared to respond strategically to state and federal policies that conflict with stakeholder values.

Strategy experts weigh whether companies should expect monetary returns from diversity, equity, and inclusion investments.