Strategic Foresight
How organizations anticipate technological futures and identify the capabilities they will need before disruption becomes crisis.
Strategic Adaptation and Innovation Lab
SAIL
Researching how organizations build the capabilities to anticipate and strategically adapt in the age of intelligent technologies.
Explore the research programOrganizations cannot predict every wave of technological change. They can build the capabilities to navigate what lies beyond the horizon.
About SAIL
A calm, evidence-based approach to technological transformation.
The Strategic Adaptation and Innovation Lab (SAIL) is an interdisciplinary research program examining how organizations build the capabilities required to anticipate, learn, adapt, and innovate in response to technological change.
SAIL brings together research in organization theory, strategic management, organizational learning, innovation, and artificial intelligence to generate evidence that informs organizations, educators, policymakers, and industry.
Rather than studying technology alone, SAIL focuses on the organizational capabilities that enable institutions to navigate technological transformation responsibly and sustainably.
Capability framework
Capabilities for strategic adaptation
Organizations that successfully navigate technological transformation build capability through a connected cycle of foresight, learning, development, and adaptation.
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Strategic Foresight
Anticipating emerging technologies, future capability needs, and strategic choices under uncertainty.
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Organizational Learning
Creating, transferring, and applying knowledge to strengthen decision making and adaptive capacity.
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Capability Development
Developing the skills, expertise, systems, and routines required for technological transformation.
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Strategic Adaptation
Translating capability into innovation, resilience, performance, and societal value.
SAIL develops and applies this framework in contexts shaped by artificial intelligence, future of work, workforce transformation, healthcare, education, public policy, and innovation ecosystems.
Research areas
What we study
Organizational Learning
How organizations learn from evidence, experience, and uncertainty to improve strategic decision making.
Capability Development
How individuals, teams, and organizations build expertise, routines, and adaptive capacity for technological transformation.
AI Strategy and Governance
How organizations adopt and govern AI responsibly while preserving human expertise, trust, and organizational value.
Publications
Selected work informing the program
SAIL is grounded in a program of scholarship on organizational capability, workforce transformation, implementation, AI adoption, and strategic adaptation. Selected publications will be expanded as the program develops.
- Leadership for AI Transformation in Health Care Organization, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024.
- Public Health and Health Sector Crisis Leadership During Pandemics, Medical Care Research and Review, 2021.
- Addressing the Health Human Resources Crisis, PLOS ONE, 2024.
- Women in Healthcare Experiencing Occupational Stress and Burnout During COVID-19, BMJ Open, 2021.
- Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Systematic Reviews, 2025.
Research lead
Lab leadership
Dr. Abi Sriharan
Organization and Strategy Scholar
Learn more at www.abisriharan.com.
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