Innovation

This issue of MIT SMR focuses on the leadership qualities that enable both their businesses and employees to grow.

Taking a strengths-based approach to individual development and team-building can boost innovation and inclusion.

Businesses must thoroughly evaluate the risk of deploying a new technology to avoid reputational and financial damage.

Learn how deep-tech startups in materials, biology, energy, and computing can help enterprise innovation efforts.

Successful growth in new sectors requires balancing support for the core business with investment in radical innovation.

To get employees with not-invented-here syndrome to open up to new ideas, companies may have to incentivize or push them.

Which new ideas will revolutionize their industries? The history of one disruptive innovation offers clues.

Image- and text-generation tools are helping innovation groups improve ideation and creativity and gain market insights.

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

On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, developer and author Patrick Hebron discusses using AI tools enhance software design.

GE Appliances president and CEO Kevin Nolan discusses differing approaches to management and innovation at GE and Haier.

No one can predict the future, but modularizing core capabilities can prepare companies to be ready for the unexpected.

On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, GitHub’s Mario Rodriguez discusses AI’s potential to change the future of coding.

On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer discusses the opportunities AI brings to education.

Insecure managers who feel threatened by subordinates who have innovative ideas need incentives to change their behavior.

On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Wonder Dynamics’s cofounder discusses an AI tool that enables faster, more cost-effective animation.

The examples of Apple, Uber, and Tesla strengthen our ability to predict the impact of in-process innovations.

Leaders can promote more inclusive product design by asking a simple set of questions about potential target markets.

On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Jackie Rocca explains how Slack uses artificial intelligence to relieve user pain points.

Learn to drive digital transformation by turning business-domain experts into citizen developers.