Organizational Behavior
Is Your Business Ready for a Digital Future?
Research by MIT SMR shows that effective digital strategy is strongly associated with a company’s overall digital maturity.
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Business Models
Thriving in an Increasingly Digital Ecosystem
To prepare for digital disruption, companies need to consider which of four business models to adapt.
Talent Management
Measuring the Benefits of Employee Engagement
Research suggests that high levels of employee engagement are associated with higher rates of profitability growth.
Global Strategy
How Global Is Your C-Suite?
National diversity of top management should be a topic of conversation for boards of directors.
Digital Marketing
Creating Online Videos That Engage Viewers
The Holy Grail of modern online marketing is video content that “goes viral.” So how does it happen?
Climate Change
Why Corporate Social Responsibility Isn’t a Piece of Cake
Responsible corporate behavior isn’t simply “doing well by doing good.” Six structural changes need to be considered.
Leadership Skills
Staying in the Know
How can executives best distinguish usable information from distracting noise?
How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Ideas
There’s a link between the amount of diversity in employees’ Twitter networks and the quality of their ideas.
Developing Strategy
The New Mission for Multinationals
Across a broad swath of industries, multinationals are losing ground in emerging markets to local players.
Project Management
How Executive Sponsors Influence Project Success
The role of project sponsors is often overlooked, but actively engaged executives are crucial to a project’s success.
Project Management
What Successful Project Managers Do
Successful project managers often combine elements of traditional and agile approaches to project management.
Project Management
Reducing Unwelcome Surprises in Project Management
A project’s “unknown unknowns” can be reduced through both product design approaches and behavioral approaches.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
Minding the Analytics Gap
Increased access to data can be turned into better decision making by focusing on both the production and consumption of analytics.
Business Models
Competing With Ordinary Resources
Not every company needs to be built around a strong brand, exceptional talent or exclusive technology.
Managing Your Career
Assembling Your Personal Board of Advisors
Six types of personal advisors can provide an important combination of psychosocial support and career support.
Collaboration
Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help
Making it safe to be honest about when projects are getting off track can promote cooperative behavior.
Leadership Skills
Why You Decide the Way You Do
Six scholarly articles offer intriguing insights into factors that can affect the decision-making process.
Developing Strategy
The Power of Asking Pivotal Questions
Asking the right questions can help you broaden your perspective — and make smarter decisions.
Innovation Strategy
Mastering the ‘Name Your Product Category’ Game
The ideal window of opportunity to enter a new industry starts when a dominant category label is introduced.
Financial Management & Risk
From Risk to Resilience: Learning to Deal With Disruption
Companies need to cultivate resilience to unexpected disruptions to complex supply chains.