Today’s leaders must navigate operations challenges ranging from supply chain disruptions to tariffs and trade wars. Apply this advice from MIT SMR experts as you seek to boost supply chain transparency, improve resiliency, and prepare for inevitable surprises.
Operations
What Global Turmoil Means for Company Structure
Multinationals must rethink the options to exit, reorganize, or relocate foreign operations amid geopolitical tensions.
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Global Strategy
How U.S. Foreign Aid Policies Affect Global Business Operations
Aid reductions will have ripple effects across aid-enabled infrastructure and operations in developing markets.
Analytics & Business Intelligence
The Perils of Algorithmic Pricing
Hotels and landlords can mitigate legal risks by choosing decentralized revenue management systems that use public data.
Quality & Service
Protection, Provenance, and Prompts: YouTube’s Angela Nakalembe
This Me, Myself, and AI episode features YouTube engineering program manager Angela Nakalembe with host Sam Ransbotham.
Organizational Transformation
Get Work Back on Track With Visual Management
Visualizing how work flows enables leaders and their teams to better manage their activities as a coherent system.
Automation
How to Automate Operations Without Breaking the Bank
Small and medium-sized companies should consider five key cost-related factors before implementing process automation.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Managing Supply Chains in a Tariff-Fueled Trade War
Leaders must pay close attention to continually shifting trade policies to mitigate the impacts on their businesses.
Customers
Consumers Are Gaining the Right to Repair — Are You Ready?
Consumer ire over vendor restrictions is leading to new right-to-repair laws in many jurisdictions.
Project Management
A Better Way to Avoid Project Delays
Anchors based on past projects can improve scheduling accuracy and on-time project completion.
Supply Chains & Logistics
Cutting Last-Mile Delivery Costs
Boost profitability and customer satisfaction with strategies that cut subscription services’ last-mile delivery costs.
Leading Change
Business, Politics, and Cultivating Resilience
MIT SMR’s fall 2024 issue highlights the need for personal and organizational resilience amid global uncertainty.