The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The first of these is when the stock market reacts badly to the appointment, while the second is if the previous CEO remains at the company as the chair of the board. Similarly, if the CEO engaged in a degree of self-promotion, they were found to mitigate the impact of a poor reaction from the stock market. No silver bullet.

CEO 52

CEO Succession Audience Influence 52

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

If there’s one fault that can be ascribed to Apple’s competition, it’s not their lack of innovation or creativity. Consider, for example, the release of the first iPod by Apple back in October 2001.

Succession 210

Succession Goal Objective Technology 210

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. They keep customers happier.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

My research revealed that their company had in fact founded LLB, which younger generations of management did not know. 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. About the Author.

Case Study 50

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

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. He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. Can he do it?

Innovation 14

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 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

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. Research & development Financial management' So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Using the concept of controlled chaos it is possible to increase efficiency and innovation. It is at heart a new philosophical approach to project management. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. We adapt quickly and effectively to changes in the market.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 That happened to manufacturing up to the 1930s; then, with maturing markets and slower demand growth, continuing productivity increases led to the long and continuing decline in manufacturing employment. million, were the largest in U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. The result?

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. The ability to speak "IT."

Company 14

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

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. And that satisfaction leads to a more attractive work environment in a competitive talent market.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

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.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. Investors grapple daily in an effort to figure out how to value companies whose accounting assets — things like land, capital, products, and licenses — don't adequately express their true market value. If you can't measure it, how can you manage it?

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Are lean innovation and the startup way a failure in large companies?

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2011

Yesterday HP announced that it would exit the PC and tablet computer business , focusing on higher-margin "strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets." Consider how HP and Apple faced the changes in the PC market almost exactly a decade ago. •On Why is that?

Software 9

Software Maturity Resistance Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

The speech resonated with me, so while serving as his lead researcher in 2001 and 2002, I returned to his classroom to hear it again. His basic two litmus tests for a good business theory are something that explains the different circumstances facing managers and the causal connection between an action and a result.

Christensen 11

Christensen Succession Storytelling McKinsey 11

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. Establish channels for employees to share their thoughts, insights, and concerns.

Open-book 78

Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. 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

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5 The question on the minds of most managers around the world is, well, how did he do this (and can we learn some of those things)?

CEO 13

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

HP had grown so large, to about $30 billion in sales, that Barnholt and other senior managers felt pinched to reach their double-digit growth goals. To launch HP's big new businesses, the company's managers took rigorously logical steps. But they only looked at opportunities in what were already billion dollar markets.

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” Innovation leaders are fascinated with that road.

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

How has Apple managed to maintain its stock price and convince investors of its growth potential? Over the last fifteen years Apple has made a series of successful market-creating—or blue ocean—moves (think the iMac, iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad).

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Blue Ocean Strategy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Managing Carbon and Energy. Brand-Building and Customer Connection.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. What is most telling is the restrictive and uncreative cultural climates created by CEOs and other senior managers. In 2001, Xilinx's business drop like a rock.

Senge 9

Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. My guess is that, like updating GDP for the 21st century, real-time corporate reporting could create new markets, companies, and much-needed jobs. But to the newcomers, let me explain what I mean.

GDP 16

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. 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.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

grew from 20 million in 2001 to 32 million in 2014. The music and print media – in fact, all content producers – have had to transform as new platforms increasingly give the small the powers of marketing and distribution that were once reserved for the very large. Freelance work now comprises almost 18 percent of all jobs.

Restructuring 8

Restructuring Diversity Hotels Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. Customers" Have Become "Users".

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great. And to the extent it is considered by managers rising through the ranks, it is often misunderstood. Don''t kid yourself that they and their innovations aren''t a serious threat.

Development 10

Development Self-aware Press Release Collins 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release. Companies who rely on innovative product design to separate themselves from their competitors must effectively manage these risks.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. ” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T.

Brand 8

Brand Education Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Sometimes, it seems they've always loomed large: for decades, Michael Porter has been synonymous with strategy, and John Kotter with change management. magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.

Reputation 8

Reputation Case Study Ries Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2001 the U.S. This practice leads highly cautious consumers to lump low-risk products in with mass-marketed products that actually merit such a warning and encourages many others to simply ignore warnings. A few innovations impose major risks, or even worse. A second example is warnings related to mercury in seafood.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Remember the summer of 2001 when CIA Director George Tenet said of the Al-Qaeda threat "the system was blinking red" but few around him seemed to grasp the urgency? A major national effort to educate the public and market a new "culture of security" for Internet behavior. Government Information & technology Risk management'

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8