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Extending the Digital Workplace: How an Empowered Workforce Can Help Utilities Respond to Crises
Utilities field workers are on the front lines when there’s a crisis. How can tech empower them?
Performance Management
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Talent Management
Does AI-Flavored Feedback Require a Human Touch?
Companies must choose whether humans or machines should get the last word on employee performance.
Michael Schrage
Performance Management
Make It Personal: Lessons From IBM on Reinventing Performance Management
To transform its performance management system, IBM overcame both technical and cultural challenges.
Diane Gherson, Bryan Hancock, Anna Tavis, and Allison Ryder
Talent Management
Redefining Performance Management at DBS Bank
A new executive team joined DBS Bank and set the company on a major transformation effort.
David Kiron and Barbara Spindel
Analytics & Business Intelligence
How Much Do Coaches Actually Matter?
A sports analytics look at how much credit to give a winning team’s coach.
Ben Shields and Paul Michelman
Talent Management
Performance Management’s Digital Shift
The future of performance management is more data-driven, more flexible, more continuous, and more development-oriented.
Michael Schrage, David Kiron, Bryan Hancock, and Raffaele Breschi
Organizational Behavior
Rebooting Work for a Digital Era
IBM has reimagined its talent and performance management systems as part of its digital transformation.
David Kiron and Barbara Spindel
Collaboration
Performance Management for Successful Teams
This webinar discusses how to reduce bias in data-driven performance evaluation.
Jordan Birnbaum and Michael Schrage
Performance Management
What Would Happen if Baseball Outlawed the Shift?
In baseball, analytics can help with defensive strategy—but using it may reduce fan engagement.
Ben Shields, Paul Michelman, and Jayson Stark
Analytics & Business Intelligence
#MITSMRChat: Sports Analytics, Basketball IQ, and Lessons for Leaders
A Twitter chat featuring Ben Alamar examines how sports analytics can inform companies’ use of data.
Desiree Barry
Boards & Corporate Governance
Game-Changing Strategies for Corporate Boards
Boards can do a better job leveraging the unique perspectives and expertise of each board member.
Morela Hernandez
Innovation Strategy
Breaking Logjams in Knowledge Work
How organizations can improve task flow and prevent overload.
Sheila Dodge, Don Kieffer, and Nelson P. Repenning*
Culture
The Impossibility of Focusing on Two Things at Once
Brains are not hardwired to focus simultaneously on day-to-day activities and long-term objectives.
Morela Hernandez
Performance Management
Is HR Missing the Point on Performance Feedback?
HR’s move away from traditional performance reviews is a mistake that will backfire.
Sergey Gorbatov and Angela Lane
Boards & Corporate Governance
Why the Influence of Women on Boards Still Lags
The number of women on corporate boards has risen substantially over the past decade, but the growth rate is slowing. Why?
Kimberly A. Whitler and Deborah A. Henretta
Executing Strategy
Is Your Company Ready for a Digital Future?
There are four different paths companies can take to become top performers in the digital economy.
Peter Weill and Stephanie L. Woerner
Developing Strategy
Strategic Priorities: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Can you spot a good set of strategic priorities? Try our interactive tool to test your skill.
Leading Change
The 2017 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
Emilio J. Castilla’s article “Achieving Meritocracy in the Workplace” wins the 2017 Beckhard Prize.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Leadership Skills
Helping Employees Improve Performance
The key for managers is less emphasis on how they rate employees and more on how they talk about performance improvement.
Reported by Bruce Posner
Business Models
The Big Squeeze: How Compression Threatens Old Industries
Accelerating compression of both revenues and profits in some businesses can be fatal, and fast.