Innovation

Leading teams with complicated hierarchies of power demands both curiosity and humility.

While U.S. research efforts are rising substantially, research productivity is sharply declining.

Investopedia CEO David Siegel describes his innovative approach to office seating arrangements.

Research finds that the right kind of hierarchy can help teams be better innovators and learners.

Companies often struggle to establish and run university partnerships effectively.

Companies often compete as members of networks, making collaboration essential for getting work done.

A reader argued that if companies are managed effectively, radical change shouldn’t be necessary.

Michael Schrage and Mark Foster discuss how technology leaders can best create and inspire change.

Companies need to reinvent themselves as destinations for their customers.

Many manufacturers can benefit from sharing process innovations rather than keeping them secret.

Our digital world is rendering traditional intermediaries obsolete. Make sure you are not one of them.

Featured excerpt from WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us by Tim O’Reilly.

The transportation industry faces fundamental disruption as vehicle ownership yields to on-demand mobility.

Ideas that have anchored technological decision-making have become unsuitable for the emerging world.

Disrupting the status quo is often valuable, but taken too far, it can lead to ethical crises.

People, organizations, and policy respond to technological advances at different rates.

We searched the MIT SMR archives to find 12 essential innovation insights.

Design thinking needs better alignment with the dynamics of established businesses.

Improving a company’s measurement of innovation requires a holistic view of its innovation process.

Haier CEO Zhang Ruimin is transforming a manufacturing giant into a platform for entrepreneurship.