Collaboration
Games, Teams, and Moonshots: Google Cloud’s Will Grannis
Will Grannis of Google Cloud explains the organization’s collaborative approach to AI and machine learning innovation.
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Toward a Greener Future: Digital Transformation in the Energy Industry
TCS and Halliburton Landmark executives discuss digital transformation in the oil and gas industry.
Manish Sharma and Nagaraj Srinivasan
Culture
On Ideals and Innovation
The U.S. must examine its cultural ideals, in the context of its economic rivalry with China and within its own borders.
Elizabeth Heichler
Diversity & Inclusion
The Best of This Week
Making diversity and inclusion real, clarifying pandemic data, and how Amazon will innovate post-Bezos.
The MIT SMR Editors
Innovation Strategy
When a Leader Like Bezos Steps Down, Can Innovation Keep Up?
Sustaining innovation when a visionary founder steps down requires that all employees be given the license to innovate.
Hal Gregersen
Innovation Strategy
How Temporary Assignments Boost Innovation
Front-line manufacturing workers contribute more valuable ideas after they’re briefly assigned to other company sites.
Philipp B. Cornelius, Bilal Gokpinar, and Fabian J. Sting
Boards & Corporate Governance
The Best of This Week
An innovation framework for COVID-19, circular business models, and the advantages of a diverse board.
The MIT SMR Editors
Innovation Strategy
A Framework for Innovation in the COVID-19 Era and Beyond
A framework to help leaders understand how they weathered COVID-19 and to keep leveraging their new innovation skills.
Johnathan Cromwell and Blade Kotelly
Innovation Strategy
How Culture Gives the US an Innovation Edge Over China
Societies shaped by individualism may have an edge when it comes to growth through innovation.
Carl Benedikt Frey
IT Governance & Leadership
Should the U.S. Government Slow Its Roll in Technology Regulation?
An expert on tech industry regulation argues that the Biden administration should step back and let innovation flourish.
Paul Michelman
Innovation Strategy
The Best of This Week
Workforce ecosystems, machine discovery, human-machine collaboration, and the inventor of Wikipedia.
The MIT SMR Editors
Innovation Strategy
The Unconventional Innovator Who Created Wikipedia
Wikipedia’s creation required the determined efforts of an unconventional, original thinker.
Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade
Technology Innovation Strategy
How Machine Discovery Can Accelerate Solutions to Society’s Big Problems
New technologies can help solve critical global problems in energy, medicine, and urban planning.
Mark Purdy and Max Klymenko
Innovation Strategy
The Best of This Week
Innovating remotely, changing strategically, and piloting AI projects.
The MIT SMR Editors
Disruption
The Top MIT SMR Articles of 2020
The most popular articles of 2020 gave companies and leaders insights on navigating disruption, uncertainty, and change.
Ally MacDonald
Technology Innovation Strategy
What Is a Minimum Viable AI Product?
There are differences between what constitutes a successful early AI pilot and success in other types of IT ventures.
Thomas H. Davenport and Rudina Seseri
Innovation Strategy
How Leading Companies Are Innovating Remotely
New research reveals steps that can help remote teams boost innovation and create customer value.
Ben Laker, Charmi Patel, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik
Innovation Strategy
The Best of This Week
Crisis-driven innovation, self-sufficient production, and data to boost diversity.
The MIT SMR Editors
Technology Innovation Strategy
The Promise of Self-Sufficient Production
The pandemic has demonstrated the potential of self-sufficient production. Is this the future?
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, and Neil Gershenfeld
Innovation Strategy
What a Crisis Teaches Us About Innovation
The drive to develop new ideas and foster change during an emergency can be cultivated even without a crisis.