Technology Innovation Strategy
The Incumbent’s Deep Tech Strategy Playbook
The authors created a three-step framework aimed at helping leaders at incumbent companies identify and execute their deep-tech engagement strategies.
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Innovation Strategy
Balancing Valued Tradition With Innovation
Even iconic products need updates to stay relevant, but businesses can retain loyal customers while attracting new ones.
Developing Strategy
How to Make Sense of Irrational Competitors
Business leaders who write competitors’ actions off as irrational risk getting blind-sided.
Innovation Strategy
Mix Creativity With the Right Mindset to Serve Up Innovation
Research finds fear of failure could keep an innovator from launching a new creative endeavor after an early success.
Innovation Strategy
The Missing Discipline Behind Failure to Scale
Many companies master new business ideation and incubation, but few follow a rigorous scaling path.
Leading Change
Into the Fray
MIT Sloan Management Review’s spring 2023 issue examines organizational structure, innovation, and employee well-being.
Disruption
Beware the Pitfalls of Agility
Agility can lead to negative outcomes if leaders don’t recognize the pitfalls in its processes.
New Product Development
Out of the Lab and Into a Product: Microsoft’s Eric Boyd
On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Microsoft’s Eric Boyd discusses Azure and democratizing artificial intelligence.
Innovation Strategy
Mining Underground Innovation
Many R&D employees pursue underground side projects. Surfacing such innovations can reap benefits for their employers.
AI & Machine Learning
Helping Doctors Make Better Decisions With Data: UC Berkeley’s Ziad Obermeyer
UC Berkeley’s Ziad Obermeyer discusses how machine learning and AI are being used for medical research and diagnoses.
Innovation Strategy
Level Up to Strategic Data Sharing
Based on their research, the authors share four key ways companies can advance their strategic data-sharing initiatives.
Culture
Why Innovation Depends on Intellectual Honesty
Psychological safety isn’t enough for innovation. Managers need to create conditions for healthy debate.
Collaboration
Turn Your Teams Inside Out
Externally focused x-teams can drive innovation, performance, and distributed leadership but require a shift in mindset.
Technology Innovation Strategy
It’s Time to Take Another Look at Blockchain
Large incumbent companies should begin adopting blockchain before it gets used against them.
Content Provided By Google
Reassuring Students About Education’s Value in Uncertain Times
Learn how to reassure students about the value of higher-ed investments even in uncertain times.
Disruption
Could Psychedelics Open New Doors for Science and Business?
A new wave of clinical research on promising uses for psychedelic drugs points to potential opportunities for business.
Sustainability
Why Businesses Need to Embrace the Bioeconomy
Developing products using materials from biological sources can yield more sustainable business models.
Customers
Investing in the Last Mile: PayPal’s Khatereh Khodavirdi
Data science leader Khatereh Khodavirdi discusses how PayPal uses AI and machine learning for customer personalization.
New Product Development
Is Tesla’s Era of Dominance Coming to an End? What Experts Say
A panel of experts considers whether Tesla has what it takes to remain the top producer of electric vehicles in the U.S.
Technology Innovation Strategy
Investing in a Tech Platform to Enable Better Banking
The CEO and COO of DirectBooks discuss the innovation approach behind the financial communications platform.