Workplace, Teams, & Culture

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

The Fall 2011 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review delves into innovation, including the intriguing role of individual innovators.

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

How can large companies take advantage of the knowledge that is dispersed in various parts of their organizations? In an interview with MIT SMR, K. Ananth Krishnan, the CTO of Tata Consultancy Services, describes how he learns from his organization's collective intelligence.

The Web has made it easier than ever to reconnect with long-lost professional colleagues. Does it pay to do so?

Project networks provide the expertise to handle complex, knowledge-intensive team projects.

Internal knowledge markets can facilitate information sharing within large organizations.

Once managers grasp the patterns of employee interactions, they can reduce network inefficiencies.

It's not easy to build a strong culture worldwide. "Cultural hubs" beyond headquarters can help.

Leading innovators are using information systems to make their activities more efficient.