Innovation Strategy

Innovation needs to follow a disciplined process to avoid creating solutions looking for problems.

This issue of MIT SMR focuses on customer relationships and their connection to innovation and value.

Businesses in China source more innovations from customers and market-facing sources than companies elsewhere do.

Leaders can improve the odds of design-thinking success by first ensuring that their organization is prepared for it.

Connecting companies to clusters of startups, researchers, and investors can accelerate corporate innovation.

A panel of experts weighs in on whether responsible artificial intelligence hampers AI-driven innovation efforts.

Pairing neuroscience with design thinking can help companies innovate with greater precision.

Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.

Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.

Katia Walsh discusses how Levi Strauss is upskilling and motivating employees to help drive its digital transformation.

Digital globalization is transforming innovation, but opposing localization forces create risk that must be managed.

Multinationals must understand the forces driving both digital globalization and localization to optimize innovation.

The internet giants control vast stores of data — and that may limit innovation at other companies.

Articulating an emotionally engaging higher purpose for their companies helps leaders drive innovation.

Research points to three barriers to deep-tech corporate venturing success that chief innovation officers can overcome.

Rethinking assumptions about customer wants, improving the R&D process for new projects, and addressing data challenges.

The winter 2022 issue of MIT SMR provides a collection of articles to help leaders overcome the obstacles that can get in the way of innovation.

MIT SMR‘s winter 2022 issue looks at innovation processes in product development and how networks affect culture and diversity.

Mercedes-Benz has embraced open innovation as a way to speed up its internal R&D processes.

Make better choices about which R&D projects gain funding by managing bias and involving more people.