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.

Agility 96

Agility Business Model Survey Policies 96

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001.

Career 110

Career Diversity Trends Long-term 110

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

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 362

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods. In 2001, 17 developers who called themselves “organizational anarchists” met in Snowbird, Utah, to share their ideas. They keep customers happier.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

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

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 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

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

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

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts. Why wasn't it copied immediately?

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

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. So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

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

JANUARY 16, 2013

What the naysayers are overlooking or ignoring is that one could have made a list for Steve Jobs that would look remarkably similar: Missed earnings: Apple posted a $247 million quarterly loss ( in 2001 , four years after Jobs took over — and the stock went UP in after-hours trading). Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

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

JANUARY 25, 2012

In 2001, Peter Drucker wrote in The Economist that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society. But why do western business leaders in a knowledge economy, with shrinking average margins in many market categories and weak macroeconomic scenarios, care so little about it? It's a compelling argument.

CEO 14

CEO Drucker Competitive Advantage Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports).

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Using the concept of controlled chaos it is possible to increase efficiency and innovation. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. We think clearly and adapt quickly to customer/market needs (aka reality). Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

” In 2001 Schillinger landed a position in France at the vaccine maker. She moved to Boston in 2015 to focus on quality innovation. She decided to leave her organization and founded Lightspan Digital, a digital marketing company based in Chicago that specializes in social media, email, and content marketing.

Career 13

Career Short-term Human Resources Long-term 13

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

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

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 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

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. It's not just standardizing and streamlining.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

There are some notable examples of CEOs with courage: In the days following September 11, 2001, Southwest Airlines did not follow its many competitors and lay off tens of thousands of people, thereby keeping intact its record of never having a layoff, or furlough, and building its market share. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A.

CEO 13

CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

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 ego and time allow, the list can be quite long.

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. Actively listen to different viewpoints and facilitate constructive discussions that promote understanding and innovation. References: Bandura, A. Psychological Bulletin, 112(3), 369–376.

Open-book 78

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

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 It was a period of instilling discipline and launching innovations that started small and gradually were built out to big things (e.g.,

CEO 13

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

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. Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

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. When I first met Christensen he was certainly well known due to the 1997 publication of The Innovator's Dilemma , which won the Global Best Business Book award.

Christensen 11

Christensen Succession Storytelling McKinsey 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

The innovation research identifies the tyranny of large numbers as a common (and vexing) problem for leaders as companies grow, well documented by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovators Solution , Jim Collins in How the Mighty Fall , and by Scott Anthony on this blog.

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

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 11

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

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). From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded.

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. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Commercial.

Incentives 8

Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For many companies, a shrinking middle class means a shrinking top line, as their traditional consumer base migrates to the lower end of the market. In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. A focus on innovating consumer experiences, not company products. Smucker Company.

Brand 13

Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13