Global Strategy
Where To Next? Opportunity on the Edge
Investing in less stable or developed regions can be a source of growth if companies build ties with local communities.
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Supply Chains & Logistics
How Auditor Working Conditions Limit Supply Chain Transparency
Factory inspections yield more thorough and honest assessments when protections for auditors’ safety are in place.
Disruption
Three Questions to Ask About Your Digital Strategy
Digital disruption is not always an organization’s best option. Here’s how to decide whether to disrupt or adapt.
Developing Strategy
Would You Invite Employees to Vote on Strategic Direction?
Apply these four lessons to successfully put employees at the heart of strategic planning and benefit from their input.
Developing Strategy
Our Guide to the Summer 2024 Issue
This issue of MIT SMR focuses on analytics, the challenges of advancing artificial intelligence, and business strategy.
Innovation Strategy
Engineer Your Own Luck
No one can predict the future, but modularizing core capabilities can prepare companies to be ready for the unexpected.
Sustainability
Find a Circular Strategy to Fit Your Business Model
Extract more value from materials and resources and improve sustainability by examining your products’ full life cycles.
Security & Privacy
One CISO Can’t Fill Your Board’s Cybersecurity Gaps
Don’t over-rely on a chief information security officer: Every board member must learn cybersecurity.
Customers
Acing Value-Based Sales
Selling value requires more than quantifying benefits. It demands a deep commitment to collaborating with customers.
Data & Data Culture
How Lufthansa Shapes Data-Driven Transformation Leaders
Lufthansa launched an effective program to turn all its leaders into data leaders and propel its digital transformation.
Talent Management
The Politics of Place and What It Means for Talent Strategy
Local politics are shaping workforce retention. Learn three ways leaders can navigate the tensions.
Supply Chains & Logistics
A Tale of Two Hot Sauces: Spicing Up Diversification
The dueling fortunes of two hot sauce companies demonstrate the power of strategic diversification.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Creating Values-Driven Business Value
Using values to guide decisions can benefit customers and improve operations and the bottom line.
Organizational Transformation
How AT&T Employees Turned Process Gripes Into $230 Million Saved
AT&T’s Project Raindrops lets employees kill annoying or outdated processes and tools. Check out key lessons.
Platforms & Ecosystems
Health Care Platforms Need a Strategy Overhaul
Researchers share a three-part approach to help leaders of digital health platforms manage and scale their businesses.
New Markets, New Opportunities: Identifying Where — and How — to Make Your Play
Generative AI, health care platforms, and corporate venture capital highlight the many adopt-or-avoid decisions facing business leaders in the current innovation climate.
Organizational Transformation
Why You Should Give Employees Skin in the Game
Chairman and CEO Vicente Reynal explains why Ingersoll Rand extended equity ownership to all of its employees.
Global Strategy
Reality Check: Deglobalization
There’s a widespread belief that U.S. companies are increasingly choosing to deglobalize. But is that really happening?
Executing Strategy
The Future of Strategic Measurement: Enhancing KPIs With AI
Smart organizations need smarter KPIs. This report outlines how leaders can create and capture value from smart KPIs.
Customers
Firing the Right Customers Is Good Business
Use evidence-based criteria to decide when to drop unprofitable customers in order to better serve your profitable ones.