Business Models
The Silicon Valley Caravan: What Sets the Tech Upstarts Apart?
Silicon Valley success is based on four core business principles and a willingness to stay flexible.
The Digital Leadership Initiative explored the growing use of digital technologies in the business landscape. Through a series of annual reports, blogs, articles, and case studies, the exploration examined how companies cultivate opportunities and address risks in a fast-moving, digital market environment.
As more companies strive to develop new digital capabilities, many are making significant changes to their organizational culture, strategy-making process, and talent management efforts. These shifts raise important questions about what it means to lead a digital business. These questions, and more, are the focus of MIT SMR’s Big Ideas Digital Leadership Initiative.
Research and analysis for this program is in collaboration with Deloitte Digital, which also provided financial support.
Silicon Valley success is based on four core business principles and a willingness to stay flexible.
Moving to a digital business model altered Marriott’s culture in unexpected ways.
Viewing digital transformation as a maturation process may help companies limit their growing pains.
Managers often lose sight of the essentials because digital business is changing so quickly.
Digital tools can be used in surprising ways to add value to an organization.
Companies should ignore common myths about digital talent and identify which employee skills matter.
Talent management processes need a digital update, too.
Successful digital transformation means recognizing and adapting your business to these trends.
An effective digital culture is critical to digital maturity.
An infographic provides highlights of MIT SMR‘s 2016 digital business report.
Digitally savvy executives are already aligning their people, processes, and culture to achieve their organizations’ long-term digital success.
If your brand is on Instagram or other social media platforms, your current followers are likely also your future customers.
Companies need to engage in long-term thinking about their digital strategy.
Digital technology is empowering patients to participate in developing their own treatment plans.
With the advent of digitization and the App economy, the frontiers of customization are expanding further.
Peer-to-peer businesses are shaking up fundamental assumptions about how the economy works.
Digital tools can reshape the relationship between organizations and retiring employees.
Digital technology is changing modern business — and many executives are waiting too long to embrace those changes.
Images have taken on a broader role in representing brands, communicating value, and cultivating identity.
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, digital and social media is bringing art and treasures to the world.