Around the MIT campus, you can often hear students saying that taking everything in is a bit like “drinking from a firehose.” The upside of that is ready access to an abundance of world-class ideas and experts. The downside? It’s easy to get overwhelmed.
No one knows that more than the time-pressed business leaders and managers who rely on the ideas, research, and tools we publish. In conversations and customer surveys, they often ask us where they should they start and what will be most useful to them. We do, after all, have many articles and reports in our archives that address critical challenges managers face in our technology-driven economy and society. Leaders want a little guidance on where to focus their attention — a little help with the firehose.
That’s why we’re offering some recommendations here, based on what readers are telling us are their most pressing problems. And to make it easier to access the insights you need now, we’re dropping our paywall on Oct. 2 and 3, so all of our content will be freely available to visitors.
I hope the handpicked selections below are helpful to you. We’d love your feedback.
Preparing for AI and Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence in Business Gets Real
By Sam Ransbotham, Philipp Gerbert, Martin Reeves, David Kiron, and Michael Spira
What’s Your Cognitive Strategy?
By Thomas H. Davenport and Vikram Mahidhar
The Jobs That Artificial Intelligence Will Create
By H. James Wilson, Paul R. Daugherty, and Nicola Morini-Bianzino
How Human-Computer ‘Superminds’ Are Redefining the Future of Work
By Thomas W. Malone
How Big Data and AI Are Driving Business Innovation in 2018
By Randy Bean
Developing Your Digital Strategy
What Problems Will You Solve With Blockchain?
By Teppo Felin and Karim Lakhani
Digital Transformation Opens New Questions — and New Problems to Solve
By Hal Gregersen
The Seven Technologies Remaking the World
By Albert H. Segars
The 2018 Digital Business Report: Coming of Age Digitally
By Gerald C. Kane, Doug Palmer, Anh Nguyen Phillips, David Kiron, and Natasha Buckley
The Nine Elements of Digital Transformation
By George Westerman, Didier Bonnet, and Andrew McAfee
Executing a Future-Proof Strategy
Leading With Next-Generation Key Performance Indicators
By Michael Schrage and David Kiron
The End of Scale
By Hemant Taneja with Kevin Maney
With Goals, FAST Beats SMART
By Donald Sull and Charles Sull
The Truth About Corporate Transformation
By Martin Reeves, Lars Fæste, Kevin Whitaker, and Fabien Hassan
Scenario Planning: A Tool for Strategic Thinking
By Paul J.H. Schoemaker
Leading A Talented and Engaged Team
The Challenge of Scaling Soft Skills
By Lynda Gratton
Why People Believe in Their Leaders — or Not
By Daniel Han Ming Chng, Tae-Yeol Kim, Brad Gilbreath, and Lynne Andersson
Managing the Distraction-Focus Paradox
By Carsten Lund Pedersen
The Mindsets of a Leader
By Modesto A. Maidique and Nathan J. Hiller
If You Cut Employees Some Slack, Will They Innovate?
By Yasser Rahrovani, Alain Pinsonneault, and Robert D. Austin
The Corporate Implications of Longer Lives
By Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
Gender Discrimination Still Exists — Now What?
By Morela Hernandez
Managing Change
Creating Management Processes Built for Change
By Christopher G. Worley, Thomas Williams, and Edward E. Lawler III
What Makes Change Harder — or Easier
By Markus Spiegel, Theresa Schmiedel, and Jan vom Brocke
How to Change an Organization Without Blowing It Up
By Karen Golden-Biddle
The Art of Making Change Initiatives Stick
By Michael A. Roberto and Lynne C. Levesque
Navigating the Politics and Emotions of Change
By Ellen R. Auster and Trish Ruebottom
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