The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 10, 2020

Innovation is broadly portrayed as a positive thing, but the very act of disruption can often create as many losers as winners, especially in the immediate aftermath of the disruption where the winners gain a larger share of the pie, and the losers see dwindling returns. market however, things weren’t quite so straightforward.

Skills 80

Skills Emotional Intelligence Stress Storytelling 80

Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

This gives you an instant marketing presence in front of potential clients. To find businesses that complement yours, jot down every linked product or service that you don’t offer but that is related to what you do. Networking is one of the most powerful and cost effective marketing tools and lead generation for small businesses.

Strategy 226

Strategy Mentor Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 226

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

To improve relevancy, I’ve had to familiarize myself with the new economy and the products and services that did not exist when I was CEO of coffee/confectioner, Jacobs Suchard. But don’t over look the fact that Apple’s culture is innovative, competitive, focused, passionate and collaborative. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 154

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 154

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Information gathering and analytics acumen that looks externally at markets, competition, and the company’s reputation, and internally at the organization’s culture, teams, and performance levels. The CEO will become less of a doer and innovator and more of a leader of leaders. They made great products and brought them to market.

Leadership 217

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 23, 2011

by John • May 23, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 3 Comments. Ironically, a great slogan’s constraint to longevity can be the boredom of the marketer. Marketers like change, but often they make change for change’s sake. And like Nike’s Just do it, this slogan unites the consumer with the athlete and the product.

Brand 196

Brand CEO Marketing Proposal 196

Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe President Reagan is Still Teaching Me About Leadership by Kevin Eikenberry on February 6, 2011 in Building Relationships , Connection , Intention , Leadership , Learning Below is a post I wrote on June 8, 2004 on the earlier version (..)

Leadership 195

Leadership Workshop Blog Video 195

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

To improve relevancy, I’ve had to familiarize myself with the new economy and the products and services that did not exist when I was CEO of coffee/confectioner, Jacobs Suchard. But don’t over look the fact that Apple’s culture is innovative, competitive, focused, passionate and collaborative. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 92

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Leadership is About Engagement by Kevin Eikenberry on December 29, 2010 in Leadership , Learning , Relationships Ok, this title should be self evident, especially to long time readers of this blog.

Leadership 205

Leadership Blog Workshop Covey 205

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Recently, in New York, we participated in a panel discussion organized by the Asia Society called " Jugaad Innovation: Reigniting American Ingenuity " (you can watch a video here ).

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed.

IAM 11

IAM Productivity Products Company 11

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

That way,” he explains, “ Visitors can see that failure isn ’ t a bad thing when you ’ re trying to innovate.”. Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. Not innovation for the sake of innovation, but innovation that helps operators and improves guest experience. .

Taylorism 70

Taylorism Taylor Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

If you will not buy for yourself a specific product, don’t try to sell it. While so much expansion can be tough on a brand, Santander is moving quickly to rebrand all of its acquisitions under the Santander name and launched substantial marketing campaigns in the U.K., He is a frequent lecturer on the subject of branding.

Brand 67

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

I think it's more a case of their being dissatisfied with their own lives and expecting that Apple's next product will fix everything. The constant refrain is that Apple has not introduced a disruptive product since Steve Jobs passed away. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping. Some investors are dissatisfied with Apple.

Marketing 11

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 11

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Integration and Innovation Abound – According to the report, 30% of the S&P 100 companies include some oversight of diversity issues at the board level and 34% of companies include diversity measures within their compensation plans. For a full copy of the 2010 study, click here. Source U.S. Click here to cancel reply.

Diversity 50

Diversity Newsletter Long-term Execution 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

When it comes to launching new products, should your company be a pioneer or a follower? Product pioneers face more risk, but can reap big rewards when an innovation proves successful. A key difference between successful pioneers and followers was how many innovations they launched.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

Do you know why you make the products or offer the services you do? They get stuck making incremental improvements that are rooted in existing competencies, markets, and business models. This is especially problematic when companies decide to innovate. In fact, the Prius is currently the third best-selling car in the U.S.

Core Competence 14

Core Competence Prahalad Hamel Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

In 1994, the dominant global provider of mobile handsets was Motorola: its shares were trading at an all-time high and it was seen as an outstanding innovator and even described by a senior consultant at A. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. Fostering innovation.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Slowing Chinese economic growth coupled with confidence-sapping tumult on the stock market have set alarm bells ringing at companies about their future growth prospects in China. Meanwhile, agile Chinese manufacturers such as Geoby have taken the market for cheap transport by storm. Between 2004 and 2011, only 1.4%

Strategy 8

Strategy Insurance Transportation GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. Five years further along, there is scant evidence that multinational corporations have expanded any further into the bottom-billions market.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Prahalad Bottom-up Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity. He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew.

Globalization 15

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases. Apple is a company with phenomenal products and profits.

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Let’s first consider the productivity of capital and labor. What economists call “total-factor productivity” (TFP) measures how much output has been raised from those inputs of units of capital and workers. But after this initial boost, their productivity increases slowed down. percentage points of the 7.3%

GDP 8

GDP Human Capital Fixed Assets Efficiency 8

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. The CEO as Lead Product Designer. They use their products on a daily basis.

Leadership 10

Leadership Ries CEO Productivity 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. Enterprise 2.0,

Media 9

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

Then, between 2004 and 2014, Nordstrom made an extraordinary series of investments, each aimed squarely at that same purpose of providing a fabulous customer experience. Most retailers will struggle to do this because they haven’t architected their product or customer data for easy access by the new digital capabilities.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

An example of strategic burnout can be found at Lego around 2004. A turnaround subsequently lowered strategic stress to a productive level by discontinuing many of their seemingly unrelated projects, re-focusing on their core business, as well as streamlining operational processes that improved coordination activities.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. Complexity had brought LEGO to its knees.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. Pharmacia & Upjohn made a startling turnaround and then merged with Monsanto in 2000 to triple its size to a $52 billion market cap.

Company 9

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Forget bureaucrats, fancy lobbies, and marketing expense! Their game is baseball, my game is change. Inconvenient facts are papered over.

How To 9

How To Airlines Open-book CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

By 2004, RIM had acquired 1 million subscribers and only three years later surpassed the 10 million mark. When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. The announcement that only short projects would be approved led to a preference for small, piecemeal innovations.

Technology 8

Technology CIO Agility Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity. He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Few product releases are as hotly anticipated, fiercely competitive, or widely debated as those that keep the console wars waging.

Strategy 12

Strategy Price Case Study Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Time away while accumulating new experiences can stimulate imagination and support innovation. Sometime their botches come from times they think they're off duty, as happened when we saw the photos of Senator John Kerry windsurfing near Nantucket, which was one of the images that might have cost him the 2004 Presidential election.

Contingency Plans 16

Contingency Plans Sharpe Bond Planning 16