Strategy

Leaders can successfully execute a digital transformation by achieving cultural balance between continuity and change.

Based on a global survey, this article outlines six key features of future-ready operating models.

Managers’ intuition about how customers will feel about decisions made by algorithms rather than humans is often wrong.

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

Contextually effective leadership comprises three key elements — map, mindset, and message — that drive desired change.

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

The spring 2022 issue of MIT SMR focuses on how companies use KPIs to measure performance. Plus: What happy, rude, or activist employees bring to the table; strategic thinking for uncertain times.

Successful digital initiatives require metrics that track business results, not technology use.

Data-driven leaders are using machine learning to surface new KPIs and better align behaviors with strategic objectives.

Evolutionary digital transformation may work better than radical change for some companies.

Delivering enterprise applications can be tough and time-consuming — and growing demand for faster delivery makes the job even more challenging.

Learn how operating model transformation supports CP companies’ success now and in the future.

Strategists weigh in on the role of corporate purpose in driving business performance.

Multinationals must understand the forces driving both digital globalization and localization to optimize innovation.

Unit economics can help entrepreneurs determine if scaling their business will make it profitable.

Respondents to recent global surveys say their organizations are capturing substantial value from AI.

Reframing your B2B company as a business-for-business company can boost revenues, customer retention, and worker morale.

Strategists weigh in on whether socially responsible mutual funds are just hype or real solutions to societal issues.

To remain competitive, companies must rethink their approach to front-line compensation, job design, and career paths.

Growing inflation and supply chain issues are raising concerns that a recession is looming. But companies can prepare.