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To gain leverage from ever-improving technologies, companies need new processes and business models.

What increases the chance of "retweeting," so company tweets are shared with recipients' networks?

The second annual report by MIT Sloan Management Review and the IBM Institute for Business Value sees a growing divide in analytic sophistication.

When Paul Barth and Randy Bean launched NewVantage Partners in 2000, most organizations were not paying a lot of attention to data and analytics. That's changed. As internal customers realize its value of data, the demand for access to the flood of accumulated data has risen almost as quickly as the issues of security and governance surrounding it. Though many organizations' analytics projects are CIO-driven, the partners have seen more success when organizations "start in the middle" with a "real tangible business problem." Solving something quickly, that gives quantifiable results, can help build a data management practice that ultimately influences the entire enterprise. Then organizations can begin to gain the kind of competitive advantage that analytics promises. Barth and Bean spoke with David Kiron, executive editor at MIT Sloan Management Review, about the importance of governance policies and structures, the role of culture in the success of initiatives, and the promise of value that many organizations are realizing from their analytics' innovations.

The key to open innovation? Ensuring outside ideas reach the people best equipped to exploit them.

Without successful implementation, the benefits of open innovation strategies will not materialize.

To decide whether to pursue a global strategy, you need to examine industry dynamics.

The editors of MIT Sloan Management Review are pleased to announce the winner of this year's Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, awarded to the author of the most outstanding SMR article on planned change and organizational development published from fall 2009 to summer 2010.

Consumers generate massive amounts of product innovation — which has significant implications for new product development.

There's a problem with most major environmental rankings of businesses: Too often, the ratings fail to incorporate advocacy activities that influence environmental regulation.