The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

These virtual environments are designed to be exact digital replicas of physical assets and allow organizations to rapidly test changes in the virtual world without having to undergo costly and resource-intensive changes in the physical realm. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 Worth paying attention to?

Stephenson 110

Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 110

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 20, 2010

All organizations have long term goals, project teams must set technical and process goals as part of their work. Additionally taking time to know expertise and special interests of team members will all people to me matched to their capacity to complete the project tasks, as they are assigned.

Team 108

Team Six Sigma Team Building Project 108

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

The truth about why some organizations succeed and others struggle and fail is more complex than the desires and actions of any single person. I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. And I'm not sure leadership *causes* things to happen, although we certainly like to think and hope that it does. I Think Not.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Constraints need not be limiting.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 8

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

Leaders used to have all the power in these hierarchical relationships, but this is no longer the reality facing many organizations. Traveling down the path set by the service academies, it may well be that the most effective people in any organization are those who are equally adept playing both leadership and followership roles.

Executive Coaching 129

Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Indeed, a 2003 Lancet study reported that 63% of child deaths in the 42 countries that account for 90% of global child mortality could be prevented each year through more effective primary care. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Sponsored by Optum.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. In 2003, then-HBR-editor Nick Carr wrote an article (and later a book) titled “IT Doesn’t Matter.” Architectural Innovation. Architectural Innovation. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

While Amazon’s collaboration with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase would obviously leverage the purchasing power of three massive employers and could lead to innovative insurance models, it seems that the bigger opportunity would be in improving how care is delivered to patients.

Health Care 8

Health Care Retail Operations Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

So one would think that, in light of this, boards of directors would be actively steering their organizations through the digital revolution, right? in 2003, an all-time high. (Of First, with the rise of the digital economy, we are entering a new era of managerial innovation with both opportunities and major risks.

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

Long-term 8

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In the language of social innovation, it must have a well-thought-out "theory of change" (or "logic model"). If you have an innovative job-training program, for example, it must be clear why participants stay in the program, how it helps them acquire jobs upon graduating, and what promise it holds for improving the quality of their lives.

Library 13

Library Entrepreneur Operations Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My mother, Florence Rothman, was one of these patients whose complications were recognized too late; she died in 2003 in a hospital of avoidable causes. The human body is built to maintain equilibrium with basic, vital operating parameters, and we do so by sacrificing functionality. For example, your skin is an organ.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Information Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In 2003, Jim Poss was walking down a Boston street when he noticed a trash vehicle in action. miles per gallon and are among the most expensive vehicles to operate. Note how Poss used the prediction approach as he analyzed available operational and financial data on trash truck fuel consumption. They average only 2.8

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Self-aware Efficiency Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Almost every world-class, high-performance organization takes training and education seriously. ” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. But Navy SEALs go uncomfortably beyond.

Training 8

Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Organizations are overrun with improvement initiatives, from infrastructure overhauls to sales programs. So how can your organization avoid the process improvement hype cycle? Reflect on why initiatives have and have not worked in your organization. Customize an improvement approach for your organization.

Six Sigma 13

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

When organizations set about improving the way the way they work, the natural tendency is for them to do it within functions. For 20 years , they have extolled the virtues of this role, filled by someone whose job is to make sure their organization doesn't revert to optimizing just within departments. And they succeeded wildly.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

By overlaying a water stress map with Coca-Cola's operational plants, Seabright found that almost half of their global volume was in high stress and high growth areas. Seabright also built highly effective partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations. Random Hacks of Kindness ) and city building organizations (e.g.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Career McKinsey Strategic Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A significant part of telecom equipment maker Huawei’s leap from regional player to global leader, for example, was due to its partnerships with Motorola in 2000, 3Com in 2003, and Symantec in 2008. Redesign the organization. Only a small minority thought low-cost operations would be an advantage in three years’ time.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Traditional rice cookers operate on clear input and output principles—one cup rice, two cups water, thirty-five minutes’ cooking. Managers and leaders are pivotal to any type of shift toward caregiver-friendly business organizations. Yes, you read that correctly.

Commitment 8

Commitment Quality Stress Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Another study, in 2003 , found that 35% of 911 calls from long-term-care facilities for patients in cardiac arrest were for patients with preexisting do-not-resuscitate orders. Given the current fragmented state of health care, new innovative solutions are needed. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care. Here are our recommendations.

Health Care 8

Health Care Document System Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

Today’s digital world is organized around two centers of gravity: the U.S. For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S., In many cases, as with Skype, the size of the European operation shrank after the acquisition. CliqueImages/Getty Images.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. These first three paths are primarily organic in nature. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation.

Industry 8

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

It began its lean journey in 2003 and has made considerable progress. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. Leading Health Care Innovation: Editor’s Welcome. Health Operations' Why Health Care Is Stuck — And How to Fix It.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Decentralization Planning 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. The firm can innovate to address a tired industry business model or can recognize a megatrend before others see and act on it.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8