Innovation

Innovation needs to follow a disciplined process to avoid creating solutions looking for problems.

This issue of MIT SMR focuses on customer relationships and their connection to innovation and value.

Businesses in China source more innovations from customers and market-facing sources than companies elsewhere do.

Leaders can improve the odds of design-thinking success by first ensuring that their organization is prepared for it.

Determining whether entrepreneurship is right the right path for you requires preparation and introspection.

L’Oréal’s Stéphane Lannuzel discusses artificial intelligence’s role in technology innovation in the beauty industry.

Sanofi’s Frank Nestle explains how the pharma company is using AI to improve drug discovery and development.

Connecting companies to clusters of startups, researchers, and investors can accelerate corporate innovation.

A panel of experts weighs in on whether responsible artificial intelligence hampers AI-driven innovation efforts.

Pairing neuroscience with design thinking can help companies innovate with greater precision.

Sowmya Gottipati shares how Estée Lauder uses AI to learn about customers and make better product recommendations.

This issue of MIT SMR looks at corporate values and purpose, risk management, and the role of the CFO in acquisitions.

Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.

Leaders must answer eight questions to successfully tackle innovation’s toughest trade-offs.

By applying neural insights to innovation, businesses can create memorable experiences that customers want to repeat.

Katia Walsh discusses how Levi Strauss is upskilling and motivating employees to help drive its digital transformation.

Strategists discuss whether blockchain will be a disruptive or sustaining innovation for the financial sector.

New research upends the assumption that criticism always impedes creative brainstorming.

Sanjay Nichani discusses how Peloton Interactive is using computer vision technology in its newest home fitness product.

Digital globalization is transforming innovation, but opposing localization forces create risk that must be managed.