Organizational Structure

This issue of MIT SMR offers insights on leadership, organizational strategy, business growth, and more.

Flattening an organizational hierarchy tends to attract employees who thrive on autonomy, leading to a cultural shift.

Data quality improves radically when every employee recognizes that they are both a data creator and a data customer.

Today’s organizations need tech leaders who can also take on the cultural and change management challenges of AI.

In this video, MIT SMR columnist Lynda Gratton reveals why task-focused job redesign is key to successful hybrid work.

To be effective, corporate purpose must be embedded in an organization and aligned with goals, strategies, and metrics.

Learn how to help hybrid teams develop a stronger culture and deliver more success in the year ahead.

Learn how to design work systems and resource portfolios to address bottlenecks that affect company performance.

An aviation industry field study points to four ways companies can organize their in-house experts more effectively.

Watch this short video for tips on boosting organizational innovation through a strengths-based team approach.

Defining constraints can help large companies foster both employee autonomy and organizational and strategic alignment.

Experts share compelling arguments for and against the creation of a CAIO role to manage AI across an organization.

GE Appliances president and CEO Kevin Nolan discusses differing approaches to management and innovation at GE and Haier.

Leaders can better create and assess a corporate venture capital strategy by considering a series of key questions.

Employees in connector roles can bridge the gaps between departments that often thwart data science project success.

Interviews with 100 CMOs reveal common challenges in designing marketing organizations, as well as ways to address them.

Giving more new ideas an opportunity to develop over time can give rise to unexpected breakthrough innovations.

CEOs can maintain full engagement with and control of an organization redesign by addressing their own vulnerabilities.

A research-based framework can help companies select philanthropic projects that align with their business strategies.

MIT SMR-Deloitte research backs a holistic approach to strategically managing all contributors in a workforce ecosystem.