Collaboration
Our Guide to the Winter 2021 Issue
MIT SMR’s winter issue looks at why teams work (or don’t), plus innovation, supply chains, and data for AI.
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Technology Innovation Strategy
The Promise of Self-Sufficient Production
The pandemic has demonstrated the potential of self-sufficient production. Is this the future?
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Alan Gershenfeld, and Neil Gershenfeld
Supply Chains & Logistics
Reshaping Supply Chains for a Post-Pandemic World
Learn how to navigate post-pandemic supply chains in this recent webinar with MIT professor Yossi Sheffi.
Yossi Sheffi and Paul Michelman
Supply Chains & Logistics
Accelerating Supply Chain Scenario Planning
Companies can use data and collaborative scenario plans to enhance supply chain responsiveness.
Nitin Joglekar and Shardul Phadnis
Data & Data Culture
This Crazy Wave We’re Riding: Walmart’s Prakhar Mehrotra on the Ups and Downs of AI
Walmart’s Prakhar Mehrotra discusses leading AI teams and workstreams in this episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Crisis Management
Responding to Crises With Speed and Agility
The pandemic has shown how both speed and agility can help drive global business during a crisis.
Bernadine J. Dykes, Margaret Hughes-Morgan, Kalin D. Kolev, and Walter J. Ferrier
IT Governance & Leadership
The Enterprise Systems That Companies Need to Create
Three strategies lead to technology transformations that create value and enable ongoing innovation.
David Waller and Paul Beswick
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Data Governance in the 21st-Century Organization
Executed well, good data governance can fuel digital innovation without compromising security.
Gregory Vial
Data & Data Culture
The Best of This Week
Data-driven culture, ethics and compliance standards for pandemic aid, and effective global operations.
The MIT SMR Editors
Leading Change
Decentralizing Your Operating and Talent Models the Right Way
To operate their companies effectively worldwide, leaders need to rethink how work gets done, and where.
Alec Levenson
Technology Implementation
The Path to Digital Transformation
Whether your company was born digital or is just getting started on its path to digital transformation, these resources can help ensure alignment within your organization.
Technology Implementation
Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World
Despite advances in automation, good people and good techniques remain essential to manual work.
Matt Beane and Erik Brynjolfsson
Financial Management & Risk
Boosting Business Value by Reducing COVID-19 Transmission Risk
Risk mitigation is an important new priority for business operations during the pandemic.
Seth G. Benzell, Avinash Collis, and Christos Nicolaides
Content Sponsored by HARMAN
Strengthening Online Learning and Readying for the Return to In-Real-Life Learning
Universities worldwide scramble to create new learning environments in response to COVID-19.
A webinar with Sanjay Sarma, Prakash Tripathi, and Abbie Lundberg
Content Sponsored by Pure Storage and NVIDIA
Using Artificial Intelligence to Thrive in Challenging Times
Artificial intelligence can give businesses a competitive advantage during (and despite) the COVID-19 pandemic.
A webinar with Justin Emerson, Tony Paikeday, and Abbie Lundberg
Supply Chains & Logistics
Data, Not Digitalization, Transforms the Post-Pandemic Supply Chain
Digitalization can’t deliver agility or reliability unless you first determine data access, quality, and lineage.
Michael Schrage
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Pivoting in the pandemic, assessing supplier diversity initiatives, and creating a framework for discussing race.
The MIT SMR Editors
Supply Chains & Logistics
Maximizing the Benefits of B2B Supplier Diversification
Often dismissed as a “feel good” option, B2B supplier diversity initiatives can reap financial rewards.
Simha Mummalaneni and Jonathan Z. Zhang
Developing Strategy
The Best of This Week
Identifying postcrisis opportunities, marketing to nonbinary genders, and prioritizing during supply chain disruption.
The MIT SMR Editors
Supply Chains & Logistics
Who Gets What When Supply Chains Are Disrupted?
Past disruptions reveal how both ends of the supply chain can best handle product shortages.