The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Yet, in an economy whereby 60% of GDP and 85% of exports are derived from oil and gas, the need to diversify is evident, not least due to the decline in oil prices since 2014 that many believe is the new normal and the political and economic blockade that was imposed by some neighboring countries in June 2017.

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

While 73 % of executives are carefully paying attention to a significant workforce shift from AI invasion, WEF expects the technology to create over 58 million new jobs by 2022. For instance, leaders can connect with the millennial, which constitutes the largest and most diverse generation in the US employee population, according to a 2014 U.S

Brand 66

Brand Agility Technology Long-term 66

QAspire

JUNE 26, 2014

This was the topic of June Edition of #IndiaHRChat in presence of special guest Faisal Hoque – an entrepreneur, author of Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability (McGraw Hill, Spring 2014) and contributor to FastCompany and Huffington Post. You have to craft your own career.

Agility 177

Agility Leadership Career Short-term 177

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Of all the ways the world changed in 2014 — economic, cultural, technological, all three — which will matter most to us in 2015? Hacking Tech’s Diversity Problem. Leadership & Managing people Information & technology' Which research best answered questions we hadn’t even thought to ask?

Management 11

Management Retail Information Technology Advice 11

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. And many diversity programs fail. I asked three questions: Why do you care about diversity?

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity. The numbers were grim.

Diversity 8

Diversity Engineering Committee Brainstorming 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2014

Determining those managerial, behavioral, environmental, programmatic, and technological factors driving overall outcomes is both an art and a science. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Organizational Performance Measures Best Practice 24 – Diverse Metric Groupings. Identifying Precursor Indicators.

KPI 50

KPI Metrics Article System 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Digital technology is full of paradox, yet we often tend to under-emphasize or even ignore the paradoxes — often looking at either technology’s problems or its promises, rarely examining both at the same time. But it’s only when we explore both that we gain new insight into what will truly help us harness technology’s economic value.

Technology 8

Technology Stress Bottom-up Diversity 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They represent leaders in their own worlds with a diversity of interests that relate to the topic of coaching. Authority on new technology and communication. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Divya Silbermann – Human resources leader at technology startups, including Facebook and Eventbrite.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 15, 2014

One of the major STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) debates currently underway today in the United States revolves around whether or not there is, in fact, a STEM workforce shortage in the country. Diversion of STEM degree holders away from traditional STEM jobs is a real problem for STEM companies.

Survey 50

Survey Human Resources Engineering Diversity 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Energy 71

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 71

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. More companies are seeing the connections in everything. Financing the clean economy.

Chemicals 13

Chemicals Short-term Energy Report 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

I never would have experienced any of that — I never would have discovered that technology could be creative, I never would have started my career in tech, joined Google, led Youtube — if I had tried to stick to a specific plan that I had made when I was your age. The leaders of this generation are more diverse and connected.

Career 8

Career Planning CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.

Mass Marketing 13

Mass Marketing Technology Contract Manufacturing Insurance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

One recent global research survey of employee assistance programs found that, combined, employee anxiety, stress, and depression accounted for over 80% of all emotional health cases in 2014, compared with 55% in 2012. But as wearable and mobile technology becomes more attuned to our moods, will that still be true?

Stress 9

Stress Self-aware Software Emotional Intelligence 9

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

In 2014 I presented a paper at the 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar on the topic of “ Understanding and Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare.” The cycle continues as diversity of ideas starts a new formation phase. I’m still hopeful, now more than ever. Here’s a simple example.

Deming 28

Deming Influence System Seminar 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job? I set out to learn whether that was still the case.

Storytelling 14

Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Innovation Centers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

While most of us were still re-winding the tapes in our VCRs, brilliant minds were coming up with today’s technological advances. The private sector also has plenty of skin in the game, especially when profit depends on secure technology, and many have chosen to set up shop in Arizona. After leasing the U.S.

Content 8

Content Self-aware Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

We found that in 2014 almost 60% of these firms had no female board members, just over half had no female C-suite executives, and fewer than 5% had a female CEO. Their lack of gender diversity affects the bottom line. So why do women remain hard to find in the corporate boardroom and the C-suite? The quota policy has its critics.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Diversity Policies Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As Egon Zehnder’s just-released 2014 Global Board Index found, 37% of the revenue generated by companies in the S&P 500 now comes from international sources, an increase of 5.5% But boardroom diversity had not kept pace with the demands of international business activity. since the index was first developed in 2008.

Globalization 15

Globalization Committee Telecommunications Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

As organizations collect increasingly large and diverse data sets, the demand for skilled data scientists will continue to rise. Through activity and system logs, 3rd-party APIs and vendors, and other publicly available data, companies have access to an increasingly large and diverse set of data sources. IT management Technology'

Analysis 11

Analysis Agility Diversity Tools 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

This isn’t surprising, given other research about the performance of diverse teams; it’s a timely reminder of the importance of increasing female entrepreneurship and of the opportunity that VCs may be missing by continuing to disproportionately fund white men. A good argument can be made that technology favors the young.

Succession 8

Succession Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2016

You might be surprised to learn that the Consumer Electronics Association is now called the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). This understated-but-safe approach was also used by the American Society of Training & Development (ASTD) when it rebranded to the Association for Talent Development (ATD) in 2014.

Brand 8

Brand Industry Health Care Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. .” We’ve all had to adapt.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In 2014, Murphy made a presentation on the history of hospital design at Ariadne Labs. They looked at 12 diverse facilities for evidence of how unit design affects Caesarean rates. Drawing is the only reliable way to make sure diverse people are seeing the same thing. Previous studies looked only at room scale, not unit scale.)

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Because a CEO often effectively controls the director selection process, he will tend to choose directors who are unlikely to oppose him, and who are unlikely to provide the diverse perspectives necessary to maximize firm value. Could technology help? Nonetheless, boards remain highly imperfect. corporations between 2000 and 2011.

Company 9

Company Kahneman Learning-by-Doing CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We see this especially in women’s levels of confidence and engagement, their degree of risk tolerance, and the level of diversity in the financial services industry across the region. Our findings indicate that women investors in Asia are in many ways ahead of their counterparts in the U.S.

Survey 8

Survey Telecommunications Diversity Focus Group 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? When investor Carl Icahn wrote to Tim Cook in 2014, with concerns about insufficient cash growth and share undervaluation at Apple, Cook’s response was measured. Are there difficult moves that must be made to create a winning strategy?

Management 8

Management Short-term Constraint Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

The results of the 2014 survey — to which 89 U.S.-based production of cheap natural gas (using new fracking technology). Cheap sensors, fast computing, and new technologies have led to new user-friendly manufacturing automation that increases productivity. While 33.6% based companies and 33 non-U.S.-based Labor costs.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Survey Price Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

Before the 2014 graduates embark on their collective journey into workplaces still struggling to adapt to changing demographics, senior generations would benefit by heeding advice from the Millennials’ perspective. Do not expect this exceptionally large, diverse, and educated young generation to walk into your workplace and assimilate.

Human Resources 10

Human Resources Travel Audience Advice 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

By early 2014, 130 people from diverse scientific and managerial backgrounds were devoting themselves to realizing the team’s mission: To be a catalyst for evidence-based decision making across AIG. Change management Decision making Information & technology'

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Insurance Short-term Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

In 2014, are we witnessing a trickle-down effect? According to a recent survey from Nanyang Technological University, only 12% of publicly listed companies in China have at least one woman senior executive – so we could applaud the fact that 35% of the top 20 do, but it’s hardly comforting. ” Diversity Gender'

Execution 10

Execution Committee Diversity Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. However, only 13% believed that China would have overtaken the US on the technology frontier by then.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization Venture Capitalist GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. The drastic drop in oil prices has obscured these issues, but they will continue to constrain growth even if oil prices recover.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8