Innovation
Why AI Will Not Provide Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Once AI becomes pervasive, it no longer gives companies an edge over rivals — but cultivating creativity can.
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Innovating With Technology
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Innovation Strategy
Our Guide to the Spring 2025 Issue
This issue of MIT SMR offers insights on innovation, business strategy, employee motivation, partnerships, and more.
Innovation Strategy
The Hidden Battle for IP Protection in Alliances
Strategic alliances can lead to intellectual property loss, but multilayered defenses can protect companies’ innovations.
Innovation Strategy
How Remote Work Changes Design Thinking
Teams can structure design-thinking processes to benefit from the strengths of both in-person and virtual collaboration.
Collaboration
Lessons Learned From Outside Innovators
Outsiders can spark change by seeing what others miss, offering fresh ideas that need support to thrive.
Disruption
Four Keys to Effective Horizon Scanning
Gain better strategic foresight and turn future possibilities into actionable insights with horizon scanning.
Innovation Strategy
Why Great Ideas Die on Managers’ Desks — and How to Save Them
When managers build more diverse networks, they’re more likely to recognize the value of employees’ breakthrough ideas.
Technology Innovation Strategy
How to Manage Tech Debt in the AI Era
The goal isn’t eliminating technical debt but managing it, focusing on the highest-value fixes, and supporting innovation.
New Product Development
The GenAI Focus Shifts to Innovation at Colgate-Palmolive
The consumer goods company combines GenAI and human input to synthesize and assess new ideas and consumer sentiment.
AI & Machine Learning
Philosophy Eats AI
AI’s ability to create value rests on the philosophy determining how and what it learns.
AI & Machine Learning
AI Leadership Challenges: Five Key Questions
Technologist Dr. John Halamka explores how to approach the hard parts of AI strategy, in this short video.