Innovation Strategy
The Digital Change Your Company Needs
Companies won’t make a successful digital transition if they don’t meet three key conditions first.
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Business Models
MIT SMR Summer Must-Reads
The MIT SMR archive’s most popular articles explore innovation, leadership, strategy and technology.
Leading Change
Don’t Let Politics Block Your Digital Initiatives
Internal politics are human nature — and addressing them is key for reaching digital maturity.
Customers
Putting Customer Experience at the Center of Digital Transformation
Digital growth often comes at the expense of customer experience, but a new approach offers a win-win.
Technology Implementation
What’s Your Cognitive Strategy?
While executives agree that cognitive technologies are a disruptive force, few companies have a strategy to address them.
Business Models
Welcome to the Coherence Economy
A major economic shift is happening — from the experience economy to the coherence economy.
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.
Developing Strategy
Your Company Doesn’t Need a Digital Strategy
When it comes to digital transformation, digital is not the answer. Transformation is.
Culture
Improving Your Digital Intelligence
Assessing your company’s digital intelligence offers a road map for your digital journey.
Technology Innovation Strategy
Three Characteristics of a Winning Digital Strategy
Understanding the characteristics of a winning digital strategy is the key to developing one.
Innovation Strategy
The Case Against Agility
Ideas that have anchored technological decision-making have become unsuitable for the emerging world.
Culture
Video: The Path to Digital Maturity
Companies focusing on technology are missing a key driver of digital transformation: talent.
Technology Innovation Strategy
MetLife Centers Its Strategy on Digital Transformation
In response to demographic and technology changes, MetLife centers its business model on digital.
Risk-Taking Leads to Digital Success
What makes a digital leader? The ability to challenge the status quo and take risks.
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.
AI & Machine Learning
Four Management Lessons From Self-Driving Cars
The novelty of self-driving cars overshadows the real promise of AI: augmentation of human skills.
Developing Strategy
What You Need to Know Before Starting a Platform Business
There’s probably never been a better time for platform businesses. But they aren’t easy to launch.
Disruption
The Best Response to Digital Disruption
Companies with bold strategies in response to digitization will come out as winners.
Leading Change
Digital Maturity, Not Digital Transformation
Viewing digital transformation as a maturation process may help companies limit their growing pains.
AI & Machine Learning
On the Road to AI, Don’t Ask “Are We There Yet?”
Businesses should understand that in the long run, the promise of AI is self-limiting.