The Horizons Tracker

MAY 24, 2021

The researchers examined the hedge fund industry in the US to test how working with a star would affect the appraisal of non-star performers both when projects went well and when they went badly. The researchers gathered data from Eurekahedge, which is an investment research firm that compiles data on both hedge funds and fund managers.

Hedge 98

Hedge Project Succession Industry 98

Lead on Purpose

APRIL 21, 2012

Hosting technology conferences has turned into an industry driven by big money and advertising. The value to individuals has diminished as the industry has commercialized. BarCamps sprouted up in 2005 as the unconference way of gathering and sharing ideas. Enter BarCamp.

Conference 165

Conference Participative Workshop Advertising 165

Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 27, 2011

Hosting technology conferences has turned into an industry driven by big money and advertising. The value to individuals has diminished as the industry has commercialized. BarCamps sprouted up in 2005 as the unconference way of gathering and sharing ideas. Enter BarCamp. You will not regret it!

Conference 162

Conference Participative Workshop Advertising 162

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This is especially so as around two-thirds of the 40 million new jobs created in the US economy between 1980 and 2005 were created by new SMEs. For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs.

Engineering 141

Engineering Innovation Incubator Open-book 141

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

N2Growth works with Corporate Boards, CEOs and senior management from many industries to co-create strategies for growth, develop the set of Next Practices that enable digital transformation and provide the framework for businesses to augment their brand identity, as well as create compelling competitive advantages.

Innovation 186

Innovation Strategy Competitive Advantage Incubator 186

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Supply chains in commodity industries are often characterized by social and environmental abuse. In the cocoa industry, for example, the average farmer cultivates between three and five hectares to earn less than two dollars a day. It is an environment rife with social and environmental abuse.

Supply Chain 22

Supply Chain Brand Industry Article 22

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 8, 2012

Susan : Even with a new CEO, great talent management leaders seem to be able to maintain the momentum and committment. Dan's commentary: It's hard to create committment to leadership development - but once it's there, it would take a succession of 2-3 really bad CEOs and talent management leaders to screw it up. Susan : Sort of.

Innovation 234

Innovation Company Leadership Leadership Development 234

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. So BDAI is pretty useful for management to be able to see where we are and where we might be headed. He named that moment, the Singularity. Will there be a moment when the Singularity arrives in the C-suite?

CEO 66

CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The tipping point in all the organizations I work with who are serious about gender balance is when it becomes a leadership and management priority and is part of leaders’ own performance evaluations and accountability. The HR Digest: You’ve advised global CEOs and leadership teams across various industries. This isn’t new.

Diversity 52

Diversity Globalization Presenteeism CEO 52

HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2020

The number of people who work from home has increased by 140 per cent since 2005. They offer hosting and management services, along with marketing and customer service management. The organization has an in-house remote racker management training program. Recent research shows that 4.3 BCD Travels.

Company 85

Company Insurance Travel Software 85

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2019

Is your business struggling to come up with a new idea or innovation to solve the latest industry challenge? The concept of crowdsourcing dates back to 2005, when Wired magazine journalists, Mark Robinson and Jeff Howe, coined the phrase. A cash sum was offered as an incentive. Get a fresh perspective.

Project 50

Project Idea Generation Brainstorming Long-term 50

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The HR Digest: How has Walgreens Boots Alliance responded to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure employee safety, managing relationships with clients, collaboration with industry leaders and internal workforce management? plant as the Human Resources manager. PHOTO: Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. .

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Globalization Crisis Health Care 52

Next Level Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

As the service economy has grown and the industrial economy has declined, Charlotte’s population has grown to more than a million people and Huntington’s has shrunk to 47,000. Dad received that letter from Gary Sheets in January 2005 and I never heard him tell that story in the next 14 years of his life. That was my dad.

Servant Leader 189

Servant Leader Letter Learning-by-Doing Skills 189

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

I was determined to beat the normal ramp-up to profitability in the publishing industry. Because I was used to moving at breakneck speed and expecting immediate returns, I felt we could outperform the publishing industry norm. I did not heed the advice of industry experts with superlative track records. 500 company.

Real Estate 74

Real Estate Magazine Entrepreneur Advertising 74

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

In his address to Stanford Graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs said; "And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition". When we have an intuitive response to something it is often our personal values that are being touched upon.

Content 66

Content Books Positioning TQM 66

Building Personal Strength

APRIL 4, 2011

2005 photo by Derek Jensen But in a way, paying for gas is less painful than it used to be. Three of the participants happened to be brand managers from Mobil. It took a couple decades, but eventually pay-at-the-pump became the industry standard nationwide. I've done this countless times, so I pretty much do it without thinking.

Creativity 81

Creativity Brand Management Participative Course 81

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary.

Deming 46

Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

Just as the courageous, skillful sea captain of long ago took up a compass, charted a course, and led others across the unknown, so must today’s captains of business and industry. Discover how industry leaders get ahead and stay there and apply the same skills and strategies to your business and personal lives.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

Discover how industry leaders get ahead and stay there and apply the same skills and strategies to your business and personal lives. Some have been industry-shaping. In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation.

Energy 66

Energy Follow-up Industry Learning-by-Doing 66

Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Supervision belongs to the system and is the responsibility of the management. It isn’t a cookbook with a recipe it is a management system that must be thoughtfully adapted for your organization.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care Restructuring Crisis 28

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. In 2005, TheraMatrix contracted with Ford Motor Co. They can do so with the help of a new business strategy: ‘Healthcare Performance Management’ (HPM).

Crisis 63

Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Management is often maligned (sometimes for good reason!), but strong management is an important differentiator in both digital delivery and in aligning that delivery to strategic goals. So what’s the best way to tackle management of digital teams to keep engagement and output high?

Team 8

Team Management Software Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. The microfinance industry is a rare D and E success story.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

As business tycoon Richard Branson has proclaimed in 2012, “our only option to stop climate change is for industry to make money from it.” Our research involved a detailed cross-case analysis of five major corporations operating in Australia over 10 years, from 2005 to 2015.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

That's why Guangdong's population of migrant workers declined by 3% every year between 2005 and 2010. The only positive fallout has been a modest diversification of the local economy, with exports as a percentage of the province's GDP declining from as much as 85% in 2005 to a still-high 66% in 2010. It's difficult to say.

GDP 12

GDP Pharmaceuticals Long-term Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy Tech industry'

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

Often, managers think about patent litigation as a “narrow” strategy to protect a particular technology against a specific infringer. Plenty of management books describe patent litigation in such a narrow way: you file a suit to recover damages from someone who is copying you. Apple Competition Tech industry'

Marketing Strategy 8

Marketing Strategy Strategy Marketing Licensing 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Industries or Fields not fit for Servant-Leadership? Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Is there an industry or a functional area like that for servant-leadership, where it’s particularly difficult to practice servant-leadership or where servant-leadership just won’t work? Religious 1:52 12:06.

Greenleaf 125

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period. Government Risk management Sustainability'

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

When Jobs returned in 1998 he restructured his team with senior managers who possessed a rich mix of strong discovery- and delivery-driven skills, and as a result the company churned out hit after hit, from the iMac and iTunes to the iPad, iPhone, and iPad. He did this with the string of Apple "iProducts."

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Graham argued that the proliferation of money combined with the decreasing costs to start a business were making the VC job more difficult, prophesying significant changes for the industry. He was right. This entails accelerators moving upmarket.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Hedge Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Industries or Fields not fit for Servant-Leadership? Management vs. Leadership Difference 8:20 30:42. Is there an industry or a functional area like that for servant-leadership, where it’s particularly difficult to practice servant-leadership or where servant-leadership just won’t work? Religious 1:52 12:06.

Greenleaf 100

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. High-potential future leaders.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8