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.
Skills & Learning
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Managing Your Career
Making the Most of Conflicting Advice From Mentors
How do you reap the benefits of conflicting advice from your mentors? Consider these tips for both mentees and mentors.
Elana Feldman and William Kahn
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Fashion Forecasting: Arti Zeighami on Implementing AI at H&M Group
The fashion retailer’s chief data and analytics officer uses agile pilots to assess and scale technology initiatives.
Sam Ransbotham and Shervin Khodabandeh
Leadership Skills
The Best of This Week
Finding your best interviewers, key competencies for IT professionals, and how founder CEOs take advice (or don’t).
The MIT SMR Editors
Skills & Learning
The Four Competencies Every IT Workforce Needs
Managers must seek and cultivate new skills in the IT workforce to create digital business value.
Ayse Karaevli, Serden Özcan, and Anja Wintermeyer
Organizational Transformation
Coming Back From the Coronavirus as a Stronger Organization
George Westerman outlines how organizations can focus on digital transformation and more impactful learning strategies to succeed.
George Westerman and Paul Michelman
Skills & Learning
Video Insights from MIT SMR Authors
These mini-lessons are bite-sized insights from MIT SMR authors in four areas: decision-making, leadership, data and analytics, and digital transformation.
Talent Management
How Job Crafting Can Make Work More Satisfying
Job crafting, a proactive take on job redesign, can help improve employee engagement and satisfaction.
Ben Laker, Charmi Patel, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik
Talent Management
Davos 2020: The Upskilling Agenda
The Reskilling Revolution, a public-private global initiative, launched at the World Economic Forum.
Lynda Gratton
Talent Management
Betting Big on Employee Development
Amazon’s recent decision to invest heavily in upskilling may have benefits beyond attracting talent.
Ardine Williams, interviewed by MIT SMR
AI & Machine Learning
The Best of This Week
The future workforce and navigating corporate strategy and growth in a world in climate crisis.
The MIT SMR Editors
Innovation Strategy
Education, Disrupted
Companies can no longer wait for traditional education to supply the skills needed for the future.
Michael B. Horn
Skills & Learning
What Employees Tell Us About Automation and Re-skilling
Advance preparation and personal training go a long way toward helping people succeed.
Lynda Gratton
Managing Your Career
Learning for a Living
Learning at work is work, and we can make it easier.
Gianpiero Petriglieri
Corporate Social Responsibility
A Manifesto for the Middle
We need a new story about what businesses and government can achieve.
R. Edward Freeman and Joseph Burton
Innovation Strategy
How Vigilant Companies Gain an Edge in Turbulent Times
A systematic approach to identifying potential threats can help companies respond to disruption.
George S. Day and Paul J.H. Schoemaker
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Best of This Week
Re-skilling done right, telling a good data story, and three big points on disrupting yourself.
The MIT SMR Editors
Talent Management
Solving the Advanced Analytics Talent Problem
To solve the issue of advanced analytics talent concentration, companies need to think creatively.
Chris Brahm
Automation
The Best of This Week
Must-reads for managing in a digital age: self-driving companies, flexible work, and piracy.
The MIT SMR Editors
AI & Machine Learning
The Downstream Damage of the Leadership Skills Gap
Skill development is as important for managers as for their reports, if not more so.
Marc Zao-Sanders
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