The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Already we’ve seen retail demand falling to unprecedented levels, with reduced mobility also causing demand for oil to plummet. Technology matters – More and more of the workforce consider themselves to be digital natives, so working from home is no big deal as they have the skills to do so.

Short-term 84

Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 84

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2013

At its core, reverse innovation describes solutions adopted first in poorer, emerging nations that subsequently—and disruptively—find a market in richer, developed nations. But can reverse innovation be relevant in the world of high-technology? million customers without using any paper forms or plastic loyalty cards.

Technology 10

Technology Innovation CRM Retail 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Remove them and you will find more time to focus on innovation. People and businesses are looking for opportunities. What kinds of opportunities?

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

Technology 13

Technology Venture Capitalist CIO ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Consumers go to retail stores to find out what is available at what prices—in other words, in large part, to get information. Those massive warehouses are much easier to automate.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. Read more from DXC Technology: Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus. Digital transformation transcends technology. Digital transformation is often viewed through a narrow technology lens, as just another mobile project or e-commerce initiative.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. Copyright (c) 2011. One dimension of this is the needed flows of talent.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

CO2

JULY 6, 2010

As a reminder, if you are not fully satisfied, you can return your undamaged iPhone to any Apple Retail Store or the online Apple Store within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Technology and its role in travel 2.0 We hope you love the iPhone 4 as much as we do.

Letter 74

Letter Blog Executive Coaching Strategic Planning 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

The decisions, which were both unanimous, significantly scaled back the ability of patent holders to slow innovation by competitors, tipping scales that many legal scholars believe have become badly imbalanced. Taken together, the two cases will improve the innovation environment for companies in fast-changing industries.

Innovation 8

Innovation Supply Chain Software Productivity 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2020

as well as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011. This is where technology can save the day. Today’s mobile autonomous robotic cart (MARC) technology takes automation a step further. As technology continues to advance, automation’s capabilities will only skyrocket. AUTOMATION AND THE SUPPLY CHAIN.

Supply Chain 112

Supply Chain Compliance Fashion Efficiency 112

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

Tim Cook took over as CEO in 2011. Jobs was an innovator at heart. Put two-and-two together, and you simply see less innovation with Cook at the top than with Jobs. Employees on the factory floor and in the retail stores are on the move, and it's not a completely positive journey. Neither bode well for the future.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Retail PR Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. The only sure thing, especially when it comes to technology, is continuous discontinuity. How can you build your organization’s ability to sense and respond to rapid improvements in technology?

Innovation 8

Innovation Telecommunications Technology Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Remarkably, the leading challenger is online retailer Amazon, with its Kindle Fire tablet. The innovation game is changing. The big difference is that the eReader market of 2007 was an open field; the tablet market of 2011 had a dominant giant. The most viable rival to Apple's iPad isn't produced by a traditional hardware firm.

Strategy 15

Strategy eBook Library Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. The plants that have adopted these monitoring and incentives-based management practices were far more productive, innovative, and profitable. And while this study focused on U.S.

Skills 12

Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% Technology and the Internet are enabling women to work and run businesses more virtually, often from their homes and often with help from angel funding. million women-owned businesses in the U.S., is just exhilarating.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The tales of two companies, cell phone accessories retailer Cellairis and skin care products maker Rodan + Fields, illustrate the dangers of top-level strategic tinkering. They had the epiphany that they could use cheap retail space – the carts that sit in the middle of shopping malls – to sell mobile phone accessories, mostly cases.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

This popularity has enabled Heineken to raise admission prices by more than 60 percent since 2009 and increase retail sales per capita by 100 percent from 2009 to 2014. It consistently performs at the top of its category on attendance, guest satisfaction, retail sales per square foot and per capita, and yield on admission.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation." Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. In other words, Mr. President, everything depends upon start-ups: Job creation. Only entrepreneurs lack a voice.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. With all the buzz around disruptive innovation as a driver of business success in recent years, it’s important not to forget this original meaning.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

While competitors like Compaq and IBM sold PCs through retailers, distributors, and resellers, Dell sold directly to its customers, offering highly customized PCs at a time when the cost of computers was high enough to still require significant tradeoffs. Dell''s success can be attributed in large part to its "direct model." The Case of IBM.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

On September 16, 2011, the America Invents Act (AIA) , a major modification to the Patent Act, was signed into law – a modification that makes the kind of “public disclosure” the iPhone 4 experienced a real impediment to an inventor’s securing a patent. Innovation Product development Technology' All’s well that ends well.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Smartphone sales in 2011 are estimated to reach 468 million units, a 57% increase over 2010. While the idea of reaching out to consumers via smartphone apps is clearly not new, companies have been stubbornly hesitant to embrace app technologies. Technology. It's the same inertia we saw in the early days of the internet.

Brand 11

Brand B2C Market Segmentation Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

Groupon does have a strong network externality effect, as its business relies on hundreds of representatives who sign up hundreds of retailers. Not long after that was published, on Friday, July 8, 2011, the Wall Street Journal printed an article entitled " Groupon's Boston Problem: Copycats." Perhaps a 2. Let's say that's a 7.

Business Model 15

Business Model Discount IPO Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Bank of America recently considered a $5 fee for customers to get their own money via their debit card because they have to find a way to fund all those retail storefronts. Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register.

Banking 15

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 likely ? China, China, and China.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Becca has also acted as the product marketing manager for a wide array of technology solutions.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. homes have broadband , and network operators continue to invest in ever-faster cable, satellite, and fiber-based technologies.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Intangible Assets Retail Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Starbucks is just one of many companies using this type of technology, and it’s not hard to understand why. As the argument goes, that’s good for workers, who don’t want to be bored or overwhelmed, and it’s good for retailers, whose biggest cost and revenue driver is typically labor. on Saturdays.

Software 9

Software Management Retail How To 9