Platforms & Ecosystems
Leveraging Subscriptions and Marketplaces for Platform Success
Barry Libert, CEO of AIMatters, describes how subscription models and a platform-first mindset can help organizations define valuable new offerings for customers.
Innovation
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Destination: Digital
Executives from TCS and Honeywell share their insights on digital transformation in manufacturing.
Sheila Jordan and Subhash Sakorikar
Diversity & Inclusion
The Best of This Week
Digital inclusion to help solve grand challenges, meaningful support for Pride Month, and reimagined workspaces.
The MIT SMR Editors
Innovation Strategy
How Digital Inclusion Can Help Solve Grand Challenges
A global study of online hackathons offers best practices for designing virtual ideation sessions.
Tomoko Yokoi, Nikolaus Obwegeser, and Michela Beretta
Collaboration
Agents of Change
The pandemic has upended business. Let’s consider how managers should respond.
Elizabeth Heichler
Technology Innovation Strategy
How a Startup Mindset Brews Innovation at a Global Scale
Tassilo Festetics shares how in-house technology innovation is helping AB InBev enhance its products and service.
Tassilo Festetics, interviewed by Chris Clearfield
Developing Strategy
Most Businesses Should Neither ‘Pivot’ nor ‘Double Down’
Companies have more options than they realize when choosing a strategy for responding to a changing environment.
B. Tom Hunsaker and Jonathan Knowles
Innovation Strategy
Prototypes, Pilots, and Polymers: Cooper Standard’s Chris Couch
The Me, Myself, and AI podcast delves into how automotive supplier Cooper Standard uses open innovation to leverage AI.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Innovation Strategy
The Best of This Week
Crowdsourcing platforms, updating how work gets done in a new normal, and simplifying data migration.
The MIT SMR Editors
Innovation Strategy
Get More Ideas From the Crowd
Crowdsourcing platforms produce more results when problem statements are crafted to engage participants.
Claudia Kubowicz Malhotra, Arvind Malhotra, and Barry L. Bayus
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.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Content sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services
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.