Leading Change
How to Reduce the Risk of Colliding Change Initiatives
New research points to consistency as a pivotal success factor when companies launch concurrent change initiatives.
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Technology Innovation Strategy
How a Startup Mindset Brews Innovation at a Global Scale
Tassilo Festetics shares how in-house technology innovation is helping AB InBev enhance its products and service.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Rethinking Industry’s Role in a National Emergency
The U.S.’s approach to its Strategic National Stockpile needs to be overhauled before the next pandemic. Here’s how.
Supply Chains & Logistics
The Right Way to Mix and Match Your Customers
Understanding patterns of demand across your customer base can help smooth out costly spikes and slumps.
Global Strategy
How COVID-19 Will Change the Geography of Competition
Three trends are reshaping global strategy and operations for the world’s largest companies.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Achieving Supply Chain Transparency
Karen Zheng, an associate professor of operations at the MIT Sloan School of Management, outlines how some companies have made their supply chain operations more transparent.
Developing Strategy
Four Questions for Appraising Your Alliances
A new year is dawning. Do you know the state of your company’s alliances?
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Machine Learning and Data Analytics in the Pandemic Era
In this webinar, Jeffrey D. Camm and Thomas H. Davenport explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the practice of data analytics.
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.
Technology Innovation Strategy
The Promise of Self-Sufficient Production
The pandemic has demonstrated the potential of self-sufficient production. Is this the future?
Supply Chains & Logistics
Reshaping Supply Chains for a Post-Pandemic World
Learn how to navigate post-pandemic supply chains in this recent webinar with MIT professor Yossi Sheffi.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Accelerating Supply Chain Scenario Planning
Companies can use data and collaborative scenario plans to enhance supply chain responsiveness.
Data & Data Culture
This Crazy Wave We’re Riding: Walmart’s Prakhar Mehrotra on the Ups and Downs of AI
Walmart’s Prakhar Mehrotra discusses leading AI teams and workstreams in this episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast.
Crisis Management
Responding to Crises With Speed and Agility
The pandemic has shown how both speed and agility can help drive global business during a crisis.
IT Governance & Leadership
The Enterprise Systems That Companies Need to Create
Three strategies lead to technology transformations that create value and enable ongoing innovation.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Data Governance in the 21st-Century Organization
Executed well, good data governance can fuel digital innovation without compromising security.
Data & Data Culture
The Best of This Week
Data-driven culture, ethics and compliance standards for pandemic aid, and effective global operations.
Leading Change
Decentralizing Your Operating and Talent Models the Right Way
To operate their companies effectively worldwide, leaders need to rethink how work gets done, and where.
Technology Implementation
The Path to Digital Transformation
Whether your company was born digital or is just getting started on its path to digital transformation, these resources can help ensure alignment within your organization.
Technology Implementation
Working With Robots in a Post-Pandemic World
Despite advances in automation, good people and good techniques remain essential to manual work.