The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2022

technologies, that were at the time growing apace via platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, could transform governments and better enable them to address the many challenges facing the world. billion per year can be saved through smarter use of digital technologies. The paper highlighted the potential for web 2.0

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Innovation Technology CIO Benchmarking 97

HR Digest

JULY 27, 2023

Baby Boomers are also known for their loyalty to their employers and tend to stay with the same company for long periods. They grew up during a time of rapid technological change and are comfortable with digital communication and social media. They value hard work and dedication and tend to be more competitive than other generations.

Diversity 86

Diversity Loyalty Media Training 86

Eric Jacobson

JUNE 6, 2018

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it." publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years.

Collins 60

Collins Entrepreneur Follow-up Books 60

HR Digest

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The month ushered in an utterly haunting whiplash in the form of ‘layoffs,’ and shattered the stability of thousands of technology workers across the States. According to data from Layoffs.fyi, which tracks layoffs from companies using data compiled from public reports, there have been more than 45,000 tech layoffs in November 2022 alone.

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Advertising Rogers Finance Engineering 52

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The notion of the on-demand workforce was first brought to popular attention by Dan Pink in 2001 when he published Free Agent Nation, in which he predicted a future dominated by independent workers. This has been especially so in digital domains, where the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation efforts across the economy.

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Agility Business Model Survey Policies 95

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Many years later I learned the technique for using black light technology. Using this as their premier presentation forum, these executives mapped out in stories and pictures staged changes that would be made over the course of a few years to keep the company solvent, productive, and thriving, not just surviving.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 11, 2013

Pittinsky is Professor of Technology and Society at SUNY Stony Brook and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Business. In 2001, he launched the Allophilia [.].

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Policies Technology Leadership Banking 75

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it." publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years.

Collins 50

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 50

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 14, 2016

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it." publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years.

Collins 50

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 50

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

Blue Ocean Strategy 220

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 220

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it." publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years.

Collins 50

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 50

HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There are agile HR examples of top companies adopting agile mechanisms in their work styles. The Agile Manifesto written by a collection of 17 bright minds in 2001 , gave rise to a collection of values to guide software development in an agile, adaptive manner. There are a variety of terms and practices that Agile HR recommends.

Agility 59

Agility Short-term Reference Examples 59

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Set clear goals independent of what your competition is doing When it comes to the ability to consistently surprise, delight, and transform customers into loyal advocates, there are few companies that succeed at this as well as Zappos and Apple. Consider, for example, the release of the first iPod by Apple back in October 2001.

Succession 210

Succession Goal Objective Technology 210

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 6, 2014

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it." publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years.

Collins 56

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 56

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 25, 2014

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it." publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years.

Collins 57

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 57

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 26, 2013

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it." publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years.

Collins 64

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 64

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 22, 2012

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good-to-great companies use technology as an accelerator of momentum, not a creator of it." publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years.

Collins 60

Collins Entrepreneur Books Follow-up 60

Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

By 1998, they had incorporated Google, coming up with a company name that suggested the audacity of their ambition. And they came up with an informal company motto to signal their benign intent: "Don't be evil." Today, Google reaches billions of pages of content. . They settled on an unusual power-sharing arrangement. Google Inc.

Advertising 84

Advertising Outsourcing Engineering Information Technology 84

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As for me and my companies, we will remain dedicated to providing the physical security measures necessary to save lives in the future. Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

When it’s time to hire for critical positions within your company, consider the training and certification in military systems offered to service men and women. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate for this most recent group of transitioning service members is 5.8 percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9

Agility 50

Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen? It was so close.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. To that end, the Board of Directors has asked the company to start thinking about succession planning.

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 13, 2009

My company was good at it, but the work took a lot out of us and, as I explained in my previous post, it didn't give us the kind of satisfaction we were looking for. Instead, we evolved our company into a human resource development product business. This shocking circumstance continues to this day. Brinkerhoff and Anne M.

Training 81

Training Follow-up Human Resources Survey 81

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? CEOs of average companies, in comparison, scored at about the 68th percentile. Jobs agreed with Tesler.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2014

In many instances, companies did go from good to great – or at least from good to very good. The key is these companies sought improvement. ’ Most companies and their people are not. Many companies try to maximize profit by cutting costs, or worse, cutting quality, or way worse, cutting service offerings.

Collins 52

Collins Customer Loyalty Reputation Competitive Advantage 52

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 4, 2010

 It lets you know their heart is in this business for the right reasons, and in many ways this newsletter reminds me why I started The Rainmaker Group back in 2001: an unwillingness to accept the status quo of today's workplace and an intense desire to make it more inspiring and rewarding for both employees and managers.

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Newsletter Content Human Resources Talent Management 113

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

I’ve recommended anniversary celebrations to client companies before. In 1978, I was advising Uniroyal Tire Company. My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. Exxon (Humble Oil & Refining Company), 100th. The Alley Theatre, 70th.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

Today, the new Chief Customer Officer role — a position that I believe most smart companies will create in the upcoming decade — is well-suited to the skills of a CI leader. My colleague, Paul Hagen, writes extensively about the emerging CCO, and was good enough to share some of his raw data with me. Become "tempered radicals."

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Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? HBR Staff/YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images.

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Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. ” Today, leading companies are embracing a new business process methodology. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. How to make your company more nimble and responsive.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5 Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Take Cisco, for example.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

Skills 8

Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results. In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Digital tools can help make more accurate matches.

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Team Price B2B Tools 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But if the purpose of the company is its long-term survival, then one could make the argument that he was a failure as CEO, as he optimized short-term gains by squandering long-term opportunities. The problem was that Ballmer organized the company around execution of its current strengths, the Windows and Office businesses.

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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More large companies means the gains are distributed more broadly than would be the case with just a few—but that domestic competition can be ferocious. More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Any company would face an uphill marathon trying to sustain a streak like Apple's recent run, so we shouldn't be surprised if Apple's innovation track slows down a click or two. Before A.G.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13