Workplace, Teams, & Culture

Foster a creative culture by embracing the curious, the uncertain, and the unknown.

A new approach to assessing IT teams can nurture engineering talent, boost productivity, and reduce costs.

Establishing effective teams depends on mutually-reinforcing functional and cultural change processes.

Solving complex problems with crowdsourcing means tailoring the crowd to the problem’s scope.

There are specific ways for women to be more successful in pitch situations.

Researchers have established that diverse teams tend to have better outcomes. Yet it can be difficult to build a diverse team and also to help a culturally diverse group coalesce around a goal. This guide, a compilation of insights from MIT SMR, offers a cross-section of viewpoints on what it means to build and lead a productive, heterogenous group of contributors.

Team dynamics are tricky. As leaders we need to understand deeply what makes our teammates get out of bed every day. In this guide, a compilation of insights from MIT SMR, you’ll find strategies for employee engagement and project management, as well as deeper understanding of what motivates your employees to do their best work.

Partnering with both intrapreneurs and external startups enables companies to accelerate innovation.

Make the most of your distributed workforce.

As organizations face disruptive threats, their cultural values can thwart needed change.