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Why Design Thinking in Business Needs a Rethink
Author Jörg Reckhenrich , Jamie Anderson , Martin Kupp
In recent years, “design thinking” has become popular in many industries as established companies have tried to apply designers’ problem-solving techniques to corporate innovation processes. Key elements of the design thinking methodology include ....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Negotiating With Chinese Investors
Author Zhi-Xue Zhang , Hao Wang , Jeanne M. Brett , Li Ma
Chinese companies are increasingly investing in companies overseas. But to reach advantageous agreements with Chinese direct investors, Western managers need to prepare themselves for differences in negotiating style. Show and hide more
Release Date 2017/10 -
Helping Employees Improve Performance
Author Bruce Posner
“Getting performance management right is an old challenge,” according to Nik Kinley and Shlomo Ben-Hur, authors of the article “The Missing Piece in Employee Development.” The key element isn’t measuring performance but the interaction....
Release Date 2017/10 -
12 Essential Innovation Insights
Author Bruce Posner , Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Innovation is a perennial management challenge. That’s why, for decades, MIT Sloan Management Review has been publishing new research and insights about innovation, from business school researchers as well as from leading business executives and consultants. ....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Why Your Company Needs More Collaboration
Author David Kiron
What distinguishes companies that have built advanced digital capabilities? The ability to collaborate. Research finds that a focus on collaboration — both with and without technology, both within organizations and with external partners and stakeholders R....
Release Date 2017/10 -
How to Become a Game-Changing Leader
Author Alan Mulally , Douglas A. Ready
The authors argue that it is increasingly important for business leaders to learn how to build companies that are simultaneously purpose-driven, performance-focused, and principles-led. At a time when the pace of change in business is faster than ever, they believe....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Author Julian Birkinshaw
In this article, the author examines agile as a management practice through a case study of ING bank in the Netherlands, which has adopted agile across its headquarters in Amsterdam. The research is based on in-depth interviews with 15 ING executives and many front....
Release Date 2018/01 -
The Pitfalls of Non-GAAP Metrics
Author David Aboody , Daniel Taylor , Ian D. Gow , Doron Israeli , Peter Joos , Pablo Fernan
For decades, companies have used custom metrics that don't conform to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) or international financial reporting standards (IFRS) as supplements to their official financial statements. Some common non-GAAP measures include....
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Author Jon Fjeld
How can managers reduce the number of "unknown unknowns" a project faces? Even projects that employ sophisticated techniques for risk management can encounter surprising derailments. But new research shows that modeling a project's subsystems helps expose risk are....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Developing Successful Strategic Partnerships with Universities
Author Max Riedel , Lars Frølund , Fiona Murray
Collaborations between companies and universities are critical drivers of the innovation economy. These relationships have long been a mainstay of corporate R&D — from creating the knowledge foundations for the next generation of solutions, to serving as an e....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Improving Your Digital Intelligence
Author Nicolas van Zeebroeck , Bryce Hall , Tanguy Catlin , Jacques Bughin
A study of 250 global companies found that a company’s digital intelligence is informed by four dimensions: strategy, culture, organization, and capabilities. Within these dimensions, the research identified 18 management practices that contribute the most to....
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Author James Yoder , Charles Sull , Stefano Turconi , Donald N. Sull
Businesses develop strategies to address complex, multi-layered business environments and challenges — but to execute a strategy in a meaningful way, it must produce a set of specific priorities focused on achieving clear goals. Rather than trying to boil the....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Why Some Platforms Are Better Than Others
Author Jonathan Knee
Executives often look at the network effects of digital platforms as a key source of competitive advantage — without understanding that platforms need to also leverage other factors at play in the local markets and among preferred customers. Network effects ca....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Could the Big Technology Companies of Today Be the Financial Advisers of Tomorrow?
Author Anthony Runco , Terrance Rogers , Peter Nolan , Luis Viceira
Although traditional financial services companies now offer mass-market financial advice via “robo-advisers,” average U.S. customers seeking investment advice are still underserved — and platform-based digital powerhouses like Amazon are taking no....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Winning with Open Process Innovation
Author Martin Wörter , Georg Von Krogh , Torbjørn Netland
Most research on open innovation has focused on the use of ideas and knowledge from outside the organization in the development of products and services. But openness can be useful for process innovation, too. The authors' research shows that manufacturers can ben....
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Is Your Company Ready for a Digital Future?
Author Stephanie L. Woerner , Peter Weill
There are four different pathways that businesses can take to become top performers in the digital economy. Leadership's role is to determine which pathway the company should pursue – and how aggressively to move. Show and hide more
Release Date 2018/01 -
Is the Threat of Digital Disruption Overhyped?
Author Bruce Posner
Responding to a recently published essay, a reader pushed back against the view that managers must prepare for radical and rapid change in a digital world; he argued that this position may be overly alarmist. The discussion continues. Show and hide more ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Leading in a Time of Increased Expectations
Author Paul Michelman
Traditionally, the focus of big energy companies has been on power generation and maintaining and managing their assets. But in electric power, as in many businesses, today's consumers want convenience and answers in real time. Since taking over as CEO of Duke Ene....
Release Date 2018/01 -
The Trouble with Homogeneous Teams
Author Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Many companies are paying increased attention to workplace diversity — issues such as how to increase diversity, how to foster sensitivity to it, and how to manage a diverse workforce. But, according to MIT Sloan School of Management professor Evan Apfelbaum,....
Release Date 2018/01 -
How to Develop a Strategy for Execution
Author James Yoder , Charles Sull , Stefano Turconi , Donald N. Sull
When developing strategy for execution, managers often want to start by setting their strategic priorities, but that’s a mistake. Management teams should start by identifying the corporate vision and critical vulnerabilities — both of which help clarify....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Four Logics of Corporate Strategy
Author Dale Yoder , Charles Sull , Stefano Turconi , Donald N. Sull
Organizations often struggle with corporate strategy because executives lack clarity on how parts of the business fit together to create and capture economic value. A simple framework can help leaders understand the relationship between corporate and business unit ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Surviving in an Increasingly Digital Ecosystem
Author Stephanie L. Woerner , Peter Weill
Companies today will have to reinvent themselves to survive, and every large and ambitious company should be trying to figure out how to become a destination for its customers. Consumers are voting with their mobile devices and choosing from a handful of dominant &....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Manufacturers Can Also Win in the Sharing Economy
Author Frieda Klotz
The sharing economy isn’t all bad news for manufacturers of big-ticket items such as cars. Research suggests that in some circumstances, manufacturers can charge higher prices to customers who are planning to rent out those goods. Show and hide more ....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Why the Influence of Women on Boards Still Lags
Author Robert G. Eccles , Erwinn Danneels , George F. Colony , Jill J. Avery , Susan Fourni
Research indicates that the reason women aren't making more rapid inroads on corporate boards is that few have reached the most influential board leadership positions. Although more women are on boards now than 10 years ago, very few have been promoted to a post t....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Capturing Value from Free Digital Goods
Author Frank Nagle
New studies show that companies can derive significant value from free digital goods such as open source software, especially when they pay their own employees to contribute to their creation — even if these assets become available to competitors. Show....
Release Date 2018/04 -
The Secret to Successful Knowledge Seeding
Author Sunil Mithas , Ali Tafti , Peng Huang
Launching a peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing platform is not easy. Online support forums have two distinct segments: those who seek product support, and those who provide it. Knowledge seekers are hesitant to ask questions if knowledge contributors are few and far be....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Why Best Practices Often Fall Short
Author Jerome Barthelemy
Many executives take the value of best practices as a given. We have an abiding faith in the idea that the most direct route to improved performance is to study what successful firms do and copy them. In reality, that is quite rarely the case. Show and hide ....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Finding Applications for Technologies Beyond the Core Business
Author Federico Frattini , Erwinn Danneels
The technologies underlying a company's core businesses can have lucrative applications beyond the ones they provide to current customers. However, many companies don't pursue these opportunities, or do it half-heartedly. Typically, authors Erwin Danneels and Fed....
Release Date 2018/04