MIT Sloan Management Review

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On Ideals and Innovation

MIT Sloan Management Review

Work Without Jobs • We need a new operating system built on deconstructed jobs and organizational agility.

How Temporary Assignments Boost Innovation • When front-line manufacturing employees are exchanged between company sites, they contribute more valuable ideas.

Redesigning the Post-Pandemic Workplace • Work as we know it is forever changed by COVID-19. Now is the time for managers to envision the office that employees will return to.

What Leaders Get Wrong About Data-Driven Decisions • Focusing on what you can learn from available data, rather than the decision you need to make, limits the value of analytics.

How Leaders Can Optimize Their Teams’ Emotional Landscapes • Employees bring a diversity of moods to work each day. Trying to smooth them out into one shared mood isn’t always the best idea.

NEW STRATEGIES FOR THE PLATFORM ECONOMY

COMPETING ON PLATFORMS • Companies must find new competitive strategies to succeed on dominant internet platforms.

THE RESEARCH

HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR BUSINESS ECOSYSTEM? • Paying attention to the right metrics and red flags will help leaders sidestep the most common pitfalls in the four phases of ecosystem development.

THE RESEARCH

PLATFORM SCALING, FAST AND SLOW • Conventional wisdom says digital platform businesses should scale quickly, but that’s a mistake in some markets.

THE RESEARCH

What We’ve Learned So Far About Blockchain for Business • The biggest challenge to companies creating blockchain apps isn’t the technology — it’s successfully collaborating with ecosystem partners.

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DO’S AND DON’TS • Lessons learned from the first generation of blockchain applications.

How Culture Gives the US an Innovation Edge Over China • Collectivist societies excel at production, while individualistic cultures nurture more invention.

Does Your C-Suite Have Enough Digital Smarts? • Executive teams that understand how to wield the power of digital technologies are rare, but they deliver huge premiums in corporate growth and valuation.

THE RESEARCH

The Four Fatal Mistakes Holding Back Circular Business Models • Manufacturing companies must avoid key missteps as they shift to more environmentally sustainable approaches.

THE RESEARCH

Picking the Right Approach to Digital Collaboration • Many software solutions promise to facilitate teamwork — but what suits close-knit colleagues may not help those who need to make connections across the organization.

How Good Citizens Enable Bad Leaders • Leaders who take credit for their teams’good deeds sometimes feel entitled to behave unethically.

THE RESEARCH

Why So Many Data Science Projects Fail to Deliver • Organizations can gain more business value from advanced analytics by recognizing and overcoming five common obstacles.

THE RESEARCH

EXECUTIVE BRIEFINGS • SPRING 2021 • VOLUME 62 • NUMBER 3

Corporate Money in Politics Faces a Reckoning