Innovation

Tools used for rapid prototyping can speed product development when used for idea generation.

A global study of online hackathons offers best practices for designing virtual ideation sessions.

Leadership Collection Changing the direction of a company or a project can be a harrowing process, because it often means changing management practices and methods. Many people resist change, particularly if it challenges their day-to-day work life. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review examines strategies around how to do change right, from agile management processes to creating new cultures as an intentional effort to starting the implementation in areas of the organization with the highest cultural readiness.

Crowdsourcing platforms produce more results when problem statements are crafted to engage participants.

Front-line manufacturing workers contribute more valuable ideas after they’re briefly assigned to other company sites.

The pandemic has demonstrated the potential of self-sufficient production. Is this the future?

The drive to develop new ideas and foster change during an emergency can be cultivated even without a crisis.

Managers must seek and cultivate new skills in the IT workforce to create digital business value.

Past pandemics changed the course of history, but our knowledge economy may limit the impact of COVID-19.

What does the ascendance of a new generation of straight-to-consumer disrupters tell us about how innovation is evolving? What are the sources of disruption that every company must monitor? Is disruption always the right strategy — or not? And why have companies not gotten better at solving the innovator’s dilemma two decades after Christensen first helped us understand how disruption occurs?

The answers to these questions and more lie in this exclusive collection.