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. Indeed, 52% of executives said that their usage of these talent platforms would significantly increase.

Agility 97

Agility Business Model Survey Policies 97

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Attrition wasn’t vacating enough positions to stop the bleeding of weekly layoffs, but the executive team knew this was not the time to put down the paintbrush and fold up the canvas. This was the time to bring paint in 50 gallon drums, roll out a canvas the size of Texas, and put brushes in the hands of innovative designers.

Attrition 317

Attrition Compliance Delegation Audience 317

Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

In 2000, Shigetaka Komori, author of Innovating Out of Crisis , became president of Fujifilm and said, "The whole of Fujifilm was depending on my managerial skills to make it happen. In 2001, the global demand for color film suddenly plunged. just as worldwide film sales almost immediately began to fall. What happened?

Film 70

Film Crisis Innovation Brand 70

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Every company wants “integrity,” “respect for people,” “quality,” “customer satisfaction,” “innovation,” and “return for shareholders.” Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values.

Ethics 137

Ethics Pharmaceuticals PR Execution 137

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

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. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy! I Think Not.

Blog 404

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

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? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Bill Sebra is Chief Operations Executive at Korn Ferry Futurestep. About the Author.

Agility 50

Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2014

For businesses that want to continually innovate and grow, engaged employees who work with passion and feel a profound connection to their company are required. For companies that want to remain on the forefront of innovation, employees must remain engaged and motivated to work hard. About the Author.

Motivation 51

Motivation Incentives Chief Executive Officer Absenteeism 51

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Even senior executives who want to stay in their corporate jobs should strongly consider developing at least one side income stream, whether it’s consulting, speaking, coaching, or creating some other product or service. Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps.

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? Bernard Arnault, for instance, the executive chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, was clearly in the same frame of mind when we caught up with him in a 2001 HBR interview. This astonished Catmull.

Process 8

Process Innovation Brainstorming Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition, Corporate Executive Board research shows that 40 percent of engaged employees are not aligning their behavior with organizational goals, The bottom line is that only one out of ten employees are both engaged and aligned with strategy. Organizations with aligned and engaged employees clearly have a competitive edge.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Change is innovative. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. I’m the person who planted the ideas and strategy. Ideas make the future happen.

Case Study 50

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

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). A Harvard Business School professor, Kotter emphasises a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (1967). By Jim Collins.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Executive education students at Harvard Business School. HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. ” Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar. A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections.

Brand 8

Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The problem was that Ballmer organized the company around execution of its current strengths, the Windows and Office businesses. Microsoft executed its 20 th -century business model extremely well, but it missed the new and more important ones. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. The result?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

A winning pitch starts with a winning logline — a valuable lesson for innovators in any field. The most valuable innovations offer novel solutions to challenging problems. In 2001 it was that the original iPod allowed you to carry “1,000 songs in your pocket.” ” Apple still uses this strategy today.

Audience 15

Audience Press Release Conference Open-book 15

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. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. After graduating from Princeton in 2001, Donovan Campbell wanted to give back to his country, engage in the world, and learn to lead. Be proactive.

Leadership 133

Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 133

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." And even if there were, it would have to be expressed as a probability statement: How likely is Apple to innovate or out-innovate its peers?

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. ” Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits, and raise the dividend. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. Stand for something important, even if you can't execute fully yet. A former financial executive co-founded a venture for college affordability using a unique community-based equity contract model. Own a big idea.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

In turn, top executives should provide direction on improvement priorities down to front-line workers. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. But this is rare.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

. “I am cautious and alert and mindful that the battle is not won yet” is how Céline Schillinger, an executive at Sanofi Pasteur, describes staying on this learning journey. ” In 2001 Schillinger landed a position in France at the vaccine maker. She moved to Boston in 2015 to focus on quality innovation.

Career 13

Career Short-term Human Resources Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. And they use online social collaboration and communications tools.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

innovation, engagement, creativity, and fulfillment. Collaboration of this sort can help an organization innovate — in large measure because it gives direction to people's creative energies — and it can help an organization adapt to changes in the world around it. So it goes with collaboration these days. Sound extreme?

Energy 15

Energy Performance Review Creativity Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

If the number of executives from other companies who have been benchmarking GE’s management-development centers is an indication, interest in creating corporate universities is on the rise. For instance, we have a course for mid-level executives, called the Manager Development Course (MDC).

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Human Resources Benchmarking Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. Between 2001 and 2014, for instance, Mexico’s rank slipped from 35 to 53; Bangladesh’s from 65 to 130; and Nigeria’s from 94 to 147.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

The answer lies in the rise of a new type of executive, the Chief Customer Officer. A decade ago, the only option for an ambitious CI professional was the CMO's office, even though in most enterprises, that seat will be filled by an executive with brand and media expertise. Turning Customer Intelligence Into Innovation.

Company 14

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

According to chairman and CEO Timothy Smucker, 67, who is now stepping down to hand the jars to his younger brother Richard, 63, "Volume gains in the fruit spreads category were supported by investments in advertising and product innovation." In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers.

Banking 12

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. One of his many extraordinarily accurate predictions: “Any businessman, any executive, could live almost anywhere on Earth and still do his business through a device like this.”

Team 11

Team Organization Management Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Most of the executives I meet with, regardless of their industry, now promote UX as key to their product strategy. For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. UX, as user experience is known, is the new black in business culture. All of it.".

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. They executed on their plans well. R&D spending fell from 6% of revenue in 2001 to 2.3% HP rise had been remarkable. Their ideas made sense. The technology was great.

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

When we focus on the puzzle of the man, we overlook important, hidden elements of the company: the paradox of its history, its processes and routines, and its shared, embedded culture of innovation. Sometimes, strategic leadership is about coming up with a great plan and then executing it seamlessly. Leaders, of course, are necessary.

Succession 8

Succession Humphrey Business Model Real Estate 8