Innovation Strategy

Three uncertainties confront any disruptive innovation: technology, ecosystem, and business model.

Innovators need to develop their innovation capital so they can turn their ideas into reality.

COVID-19’s impact on in-person work and global value chains may slow down innovation, too.

MIT SMR summer 2020 highlights leadership and innovation strategies, employee morale, and data sharing.

Use a networked approach to manage distributed innovation across teams, units, and regions.

The race to develop treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19 highlights the value of repurposing solutions.

MIT SMR editor in chief Paul Michelman kicks off the Disruption 2020 Virtual event.

There are four common misconceptions that leaders often succumb to when thinking about disruptive innovation.

Tucker Marion and Sebastian Fixson outline four essential skills workers need to master to succeed in digital environments.

To ensure success, entrepreneurs need to create two business plans: one for disruption and one for cooperation.

Amy Webb outlines the 11 sources of change that could disrupt your organization.

SAP’s Max Wessel explains why advisory board guidance is critical in innovation.

How to boost innovation capacity and institutional pride, and addressing tech inequity and the ethics of automation.

External innovation is a way to broaden your portfolio, not a substitute for internal innovation.

CEOs who manage crises using intuition, logic, and emotion are the best role models.

Adjusting business strategies and plotting comebacks in the face of uncertainty.

Amid pandemic-driven market changes, opportunities await organizations that proactively adjust their business strategies.

Columbia’s Rita McGrath discusses how traditional businesses can compete with innovative upstarts.

Disruption detection and delusions, ethical implications of new technologies, and nudge engines.

This special issue looks at what it will take to innovate and compete over the next decade.