Innovation Strategy

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.

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.

Fuse pairs engineers and scientists with providers and patients to improve health care.

Executives can foster innovation by understanding and tapping the power of employee networks.

If managed well, internal crowdsourcing initiatives can open up a rich source of innovation.

Most leadership development programs focus on competencies but fail to view leaders as individuals.

The transformative potential of blockchain is real, but so are the challenges to its implementation.

Innovation success is the result of a deliberate search using key information signals.

Digital innovation can require carefully balancing new capabilities and core competencies.

The ways that consumer-users improve product through tinkering has evolved over the past decade.

AI is expected to be the single most disruptive new capability for companies in the next decade.

The Chinese telecom company Huawei has used strategic partnerships to gain ground in Europe.

Partnering with emerging-market startups is easier if four key factors can be addressed.

Getting value-chain partners on board is essential for innovation and e-business success.

Digital technology makes the creative process faster — and cheaper. And that’s great for business.

A strategic framework that eliminates faulty assumptions can help make alliances successful.