Innovation Strategy
The Missing Discipline Behind Failure to Scale
Many companies master new business ideation and incubation, but few follow a rigorous scaling path.
Innovation
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Leading Change
Into the Fray
MIT Sloan Management Review’s spring 2023 issue examines organizational structure, innovation, and employee well-being.
Abbie Lundberg
Disruption
Beware the Pitfalls of Agility
Agility can lead to negative outcomes if leaders don’t recognize the pitfalls in its processes.
Bernadine J. Dykes, Kalin D. Kolev, Walter J. Ferrier, and Margaret Hughes-Morgan
New Product Development
Out of the Lab and Into a Product: Microsoft’s Eric Boyd
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Microsoft’s Eric Boyd discusses Azure and democratizing artificial intelligence.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Innovation Strategy
Mining Underground Innovation
Many R&D employees pursue underground side projects. Surfacing such innovations can reap benefits for their employers.
Jeroen P.J. de Jong, Max Mulhuijzen, and K. Venkatesh Prasad
AI & Machine Learning
Helping Doctors Make Better Decisions With Data: UC Berkeley’s Ziad Obermeyer
UC Berkeley’s Ziad Obermeyer discusses how machine learning and AI are being used for medical research and diagnoses.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Innovation Strategy
Level Up to Strategic Data Sharing
Based on their research, the authors share four key ways companies can advance their strategic data-sharing initiatives.
Barbara H. Wixom, Ina M. Sebastian, Robert W. Gregory, and Gabriele Piccoli
Culture
Why Innovation Depends on Intellectual Honesty
Psychological safety isn’t enough for innovation. Managers need to create conditions for healthy debate.
Jeff Dyer, Nathan Furr, Curtis Lefrandt, and Taeya Howell
Collaboration
Turn Your Teams Inside Out
Externally focused x-teams can drive innovation, performance, and distributed leadership but require a shift in mindset.
Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman
Technology Innovation Strategy
It’s Time to Take Another Look at Blockchain
Large incumbent companies should begin adopting blockchain before it gets used against them.
Ravi Sarathy, interviewed by Theodore Kinni
Content Provided By Google
Reassuring Students About Education’s Value in Uncertain Times
Learn how to reassure students about the value of higher-ed investments even in uncertain times.
Disruption
Could Psychedelics Open New Doors for Science and Business?
A new wave of clinical research on promising uses for psychedelic drugs points to potential opportunities for business.
Alyson Meister, Kaja Oppegaard, Eric Grotefeld, and Cyril Bouquet
Sustainability
Why Businesses Need to Embrace the Bioeconomy
Developing products using materials from biological sources can yield more sustainable business models.
Donna Marshall, Aideen O’Dochartaigh, Andrea Prothero, Orlagh Reynolds, and Enrico Secchi
Customers
Investing in the Last Mile: PayPal’s Khatereh Khodavirdi
Data science leader Khatereh Khodavirdi discusses how PayPal uses AI and machine learning for customer personalization.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
New Product Development
Is Tesla’s Era of Dominance Coming to an End? What Experts Say
A panel of experts considers whether Tesla has what it takes to remain the top producer of electric vehicles in the U.S.
MIT SMR Strategy Forum
Technology Innovation Strategy
Investing in a Tech Platform to Enable Better Banking
The CEO and COO of DirectBooks discuss the innovation approach behind the financial communications platform.
Yvonne Wang and Rich Kerschner, interviewed by Chris Clearfield
New Product Development
Adopting the Innovator’s Mindset
Innovation needs to follow a disciplined process to avoid creating solutions looking for problems.
Lorraine Marchand, interviewed by Elizabeth Heichler
Customers
Our Guide to the Fall 2022 Issue
This issue of MIT SMR focuses on customer relationships and their connection to innovation and value.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Innovation Strategy
Why Innovators in China Stay Close to the Market
Businesses in China source more innovations from customers and market-facing sources than companies elsewhere do.
Neil C. Thompson, Didier Bonnet, Mark J. Greeven, Wenjing Lyu, and Sarah Jaballah
Innovation Strategy
Can Design Thinking Succeed in Your Organization?
Leaders can improve the odds of design-thinking success by first ensuring that their organization is prepared for it.