Innovation Strategy

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

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.

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

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

The spring 2024 issue of MIT SMR looks at opportunities in digital innovation, automation, generative AI, and more.

Leaders can better create and assess a corporate venture capital strategy by considering a series of key questions.

Where innovation proliferates, fast-moving companies rely on special review teams to keep projects aligned with the mission.

The way many companies run innovation contests needs improvement. Structure the contests to match organizational goals.

Open innovation requires moving knowledge across divides. Organizational silos are the biggest barriers to success.

Students rank affordability and career advancement as top factors in choosing higher-ed programs.

Sustainability efforts often get blamed when companies trip up. That’s not fair or logical.

The fall 2023 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review examines innovation systems and strategies for business leaders.

New research shows how companies can advance open innovation by integrating customers’ ideas into product development.

Giving more new ideas an opportunity to develop over time can give rise to unexpected breakthrough innovations.

The summer 2023 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review examines risk, disruption, AI, finance strategy, and equity.

Exponential growth has been key to technology’s progress. The same is needed for climate action.

On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, venture capitalist Hina Dixit shares her criteria for investing in AI startups.

Two business strategists explore ChatGPT’s capacity for generating new ideas and strategies — and where it falls short.

The authors created a three-step framework aimed at helping leaders at incumbent companies identify and execute their deep-tech engagement strategies.