Strategic Adaptation
How institutions respond to technological change and build capabilities for innovation, resilience, and long-term performance.
Strategic Adaptation and Innovation Lab
SAIL
Helping organizations adapt, learn, and innovate in the age of artificial intelligence.
Explore the research programOrganizations cannot predict every wave of technological change. They can build the capabilities to navigate what lies beyond the horizon.
About
About SAIL
The Strategic Adaptation and Innovation Lab (SAIL) is an interdisciplinary research program dedicated to advancing knowledge on how organizations anticipate, govern, and adapt to technological change.
Drawing on organization theory, strategic management, organizational learning, innovation, and artificial intelligence, SAIL develops evidence to help institutions build the capabilities required for responsible transformation.
SAIL works across healthcare, government, education, industry, and the public sector to generate insights that inform strategy, policy, leadership, and workforce development.
Research
What we study
Organizational Learning
How evidence, experience, and uncertainty shape decision making, implementation, and adaptive capacity.
AI Governance
How organizations adopt and govern AI while preserving human expertise, trust, accountability, and public value.
Future of Work
How technological change reshapes work, professional expertise, workforce development, and organizational capability.
Publications
Selected publications
SAIL is grounded in scholarship on organizational capability, workforce transformation, implementation, AI adoption, and strategic adaptation.
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Balancing Technological Innovation With Health and Care Workforce Priorities, The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2025. DOI ยท PDF
- Leadership for AI Transformation in Healthcare Organizations, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024.
- Addressing the Health Human Resources Crisis, PLOS ONE, 2024.
- Public Health and Health Sector Crisis Leadership During Pandemics, Medical Care Research and Review, 2021.
- 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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