New Product Development
Design for Cybersecurity From the Start
Leaders can take steps to shift their product development teams toward a mindset of designing for cybersecurity.
IT Governance & Leadership
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IT Governance & Leadership
Leading Change With a Culture of Experimentation
California chief technology innovation officer Rick Klau discusses creating a culture of empowerment and experimentation.
Rick Klau, interviewed by Chris Clearfield
Content sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services
New Approaches, New Skills: The Rapidly Changing Role of IT Sourcing in an Insurer’s Digital Transformation
Executives from TCS and Swiss Re discuss IT sourcing and digital transformation.
Vinit Chopade and Shailesh Yadav
IT Governance & Leadership
Building an Organizational Approach to Responsible AI
Companies adopting the best practices of responsible AI extract benefits while mitigating AI’s risks.
Kay Firth-Butterfield
Technology Innovation Strategy
The Innovator’s Mindset: Creating a Better Tomorrow With AI
Kay Firth-Butterfield (the World Economic Forum), Ya Xu (LinkedIn), and Charlotte Degot (BCG GAMMA) join MIT SMR senior project editor Allison Ryder for a discussion on innovating with artificial intelligence.
Kay Firth-Butterfield, Ya Xu, Charlotte Degot, and Allison Ryder
Ethics
Why Building an Ethical Culture Must Start at the Top
Robert Chesnut, Airbnb’s first chief ethics officer, shares his experience shaping ethical technology policies.
Robert Chesnut, interviewed by Ally MacDonald
Data & Data Culture
Putting Dignity at the Core of Employee Data Use
Companies that manage employee data responsibly are better able to grow trust across the company while gaining insights.
Dorothy Leidner, Olgerta Tona, Barbara H. Wixom, and Ida A. Someh
IT Governance & Leadership
Investing in Strategic Leadership
To be a technology leader, a CTO needs both tech and business knowledge, explains Two Sigma’s Camille Fournier.
Camille Fournier, interviewed by Chris Clearfield
Ethics
A New Business Mandate for Ethical Technology
A new article series explores how organizations must manage and monitor technology in new ways to achieve positive ethical outcomes.
Ally MacDonald
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Adapting entrepreneurial identity, adopting value-based selling, and advancing AI with an experimental approach.
The MIT SMR Editors
IT Governance & Leadership
Portrait of an AI Leader: Piyush Gupta of DBS Bank
DBS Bank’s CEO exemplifies how a willingness to experiment and even fail can help advance new technologies like AI.
Thomas H. Davenport and Randy Bean
Data & Data Culture
Fast-Track Data Monetization With Strategic Data Assets
To monetize data, companies must first transform it so it can be reused and recombined to create new value.
Barbara H. Wixom, Gabriele Piccoli, and Joaquin Rodriguez
Talent Management
Culture’s Role in Successful Technology Transformation
In this Q&A, ADP CTO Urvashi Tyagi describes a career spent solving problems that span technology, culture, and mindset.
Urvashi Tyagi, interviewed by Chris Clearfield
Content Sponsored by Pure Storage
Ransomware: Prepare, Respond, Recover
Lucas Bobroff of Pure Storage offers insights on preventing and responding to ransomware attacks.
A webinar with Lucas Bobroff and Abbie Lundberg
Data & Data Culture
The Data Science Management Process
Organizations should manage data science with an appropriate structure and enterprisewide process.
Roger Hoerl, Diego Kuonen, and Thomas C. Redman
Content sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services
Destination: Digital
Executives from TCS and Honeywell share their insights on digital transformation in manufacturing.
Sheila Jordan and Subhash Sakorikar
Ethics
Starting Now On Technology Ethics: Elizabeth Renieris
Elizabeth Renieris of the Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab discusses how businesses can responsibly govern AI projects.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
IT Governance & Leadership
Designing a Better Future: Mastercard’s JoAnn Stonier
JoAnn Stonier, chief data officer at Mastercard, discusses how design thinking enables better AI implementation.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Security & Privacy
A Comprehensive Approach to Cyber Resilience
Anticipating and withstanding cyberattacks — cyber resilience — must become a companywide concern.
Chon Abraham and Ronald R. Sims
IT Governance & Leadership
How Should the Biden Administration Approach Tech Regulation? With Great Care.
The incoming U.S. president should resist overreaching and adopt a tempered approach to tech industry oversight.