The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 2, 2024

The study analyzed industry data spanning from 1995 to 2017 in the UK and 24 other European countries. Mixed results The U-shaped phenomenon is attributed to the interplay between cost reduction, process development, and product innovation. Companies often embrace robotic technologies initially to cut costs through process innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

Today, I’d like to share some examples and critical considerations for companies that fit in this category. NerdWallet is an example of when the rapidly growing company missed profitability targets and subsequently changed its leadership team. The opportunity to have a more prosperous and diverse culture can support innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Diversification is not a trend; it is essential for companies to become and remain competitive. With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

From the period of 2012 to 2017, and there has been an incredible rise in the technology sector of the US job market with a 17% increase. The percentage of tech workers in the energy sector considerably doubled from 2012- 2017, from a minimum of 3.2% The only thing required is an investment in areas that support digital innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. On December 6, 2017, MFG announced closure of its wind blade manufacturing plant located in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 4, 2023

6191 may address these issues by capping executive pay in a way that aims to realign the incentives of corporate leaders with the wellbeing of their companies and employees. 6191 aims to diminish the allure of prioritizing short-term personal gains over long-term company health. Billion for the company in 2017.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 15, 2018

How I Accidentally Discovered Our Company’s Staff Values. The stone tablets with your company culture are at the bottom of the mountain. After everyone had a chance to write their comments and ideas on giant post-its, we all sat down, as a company, to discuss them. There’s a lot of old-school thinking about vision.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 6, 2018

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

It’s a company secret.” Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Phrases like ‘Don’t rock the boat’ or ‘It’s not in the budget’ often serve to halt innovation and maintain the status quo.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 4, 2023

6191 may address these issues by capping executive pay in a way that aims to realign the incentives of corporate leaders with the wellbeing of their companies and employees. 6191 aims to diminish the allure of prioritizing short-term personal gains over long-term company health. Billion for the company in 2017.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 30, 2024

” To figure out the best way companies should use algorithmic recommendations versus human choices, researchers checked how users reacted to both at a big online news site in Germany. This happened from December 2017 to May 2018. The site has lots of visitors and gets a ton of page views every month because of ads.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 30, 2021

Our research scored companies on their ‘Systems Strength’ — a measure of technology adoption, application of technologies at scale, and organizational and cultural readiness for tech-enabled innovation. For instance, 80% of Leapfroggers had adopted some form of cloud technology by 2017, but that figure rose to 98% by 2020.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 3, 2024

A study conducted at the Texas A&M School of Public Health utilized an innovative data collection approach to examine the productivity patterns of office workers. The research focused on 789 in-office employees at a prominent energy company in Texas and spanned a two-year period from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2018.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

If the way your company needs to show-up in the world has changed, it’s time to refresh or redefine the vision. November 08, 2017 – Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies. Harvard Business Review, Many Strategies Fail Because They’re Not Actually Strategies, by Freek Vermeulen.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

With fall officially here, children are now fully settled in at school, businesses are back up to full speed after summer vacations, and many of us are taking stock of our 2017 resolutions – and how to accomplish them before the holidays approach. Our company serves a wide variety of customers in higher education, technology and more.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

They collected taxi and for-hire vehicle records in New York City from January 2015 to December 2017 and analyzed platform-level use based on the hourly number of trips during various types of urban disasters, including terrorist attacks, subway shutdowns, and car crashes.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Some are chasing a higher salary, but nearly equally important is the desire for a better opportunity inside or outside their present company. As Christopher Bishop, head of Herman Miller’s Innovation lab has said, "The war for talent is over, talent has won." One of the eight foundations of trust is a set of policies I call "Invest."

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The presence of a significant shareholder, owning at least 5% of the company, often correlates negatively with integrity (Guiso et al., Contextual Value Conversations : Promote ‘Continuum Mapping’ as Cardus (2017) introduced to have regular discussions on pivotal organizational decisions. 2017, November 19).

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Prolonged pressure to narrow this pay gap resulted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, which Congress hoped would help to curb CEO pay by repealing the exemption that allowed firms to deduct large amounts of performance-based pay. The only exemption to this was when the pay was linked to the performance of the company.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2017

But as every company is so different, you will stand a much better chance of success if you take the plunge and carve out your path. Here are a few examples of ways you can bring your business into the digital age, to create a more straightforward and streamlined company. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Philadelphia, PA October 17, 2017 — Elizabeth Pieters, Chief People Officer at N2Growth Inc., Forbes Councils combines an innovative, high-touch approach to community management perfected by the team behind Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) with the extensive resources and global reach of Forbes.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 13, 2018

We all know that companies compete fiercely to stay ahead of the technological curve. The National Federation of Independent Businesses found in 2017 that 45% of business owners could not find qualified candidates. Millennials prefer to work at do-good companies, stay longer, find greater loyalty.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2018

These are the biggest tech mistakes that companies make and how to solve them. When a company comes to you and says they’ve just developed an innovative piece of software that is going to revolutionize your company, it’s tempting to bite their hand off and hand over your cash. Using The Cloud For File Transfer.

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Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Our end goal was to hire not only the artist and body piercer with the most talent but someone who understood and could adapt to our company culture. Invest in hiring the right people. This may seem like an easy requirement for today’s workplace, but in the tattoo and piercing industry, it was a relatively unknown concept.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2019

Over the years, I’ve worked with a number of founders, CEOs, and presidents of companies. Very often, though, I find that there is another, related obstacle to their company achieving at its full potential, one that all too common goes unnoticed. That’s a differentiator that most companies miss.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2023

When making such a charge, a recent paper from the University of Mississippi argues activists would be well served by using the company’s own words against them. “The basic premise is that it’s very hard to figure out what companies are actually doing,” the researchers say. I get that,” they conclude.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2016

During our meeting he surprised me with the news that he decided to leave the company. Many companies have been so successful in their efforts around efficiency and automation that they have bled the human element out of the business. responsibility, creativity, fun of being actively at the company’s steering wheel).

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 10, 2017

I thought I would do a “Rich’s Favorite Things Early 2017” post and let you know what resources I use to stay at the top of my game. It’s about innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. So here goes.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 19, 2020

Academia is a hive of great ideas and potential innovations, but the pathway from laboratory to marketplace is often incredibly long and uncertain. New research from INSEAD suggests that a key way for companies to better tap into the expertise of academia is through geographic clusters of corporate R&D facilities.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 28, 2023

This outcome is deemed unexpected, given the substantial financial resources invested by major organizations in equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives, which amounted to as much as $8 billion in the US alone in 2017.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2020

A handful of companies dominated the market, all them strong, pedestrian. According to HRWins by LaRocque LLC, venture capitalists invested $1.741 billion in HR tech companies during the first quarter of 2019 and $1.448 billion in the second quarter. from 2017 to 2025, owing to extensive tech in managing employees across the world.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

The HR Digest: Hyatt was featured in the “People’s Companies that Care” list for the fourth consecutive year. The hospitality industry is resilient and offers dynamic opportunities for growth and innovation, but what sets Hyatt apart is our colleagues and our purpose – to care for people so they can be their best.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. EY is known for its focus on innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

But if we’re talking about Tesla or Google, if we’re talking about large companies that grow to be large employers, then obviously the job-creation effect can be very strong.”. Finally, this data was augmented with a Census analysis of the Fortune 500 in 2017 to allow researchers an insight into the biggest firms in the economy at that time.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The following post is a preview excerpt from “ Up is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility ” by Beverly Kaye, Lindy Williams, and Lynn Cowart, with permission from Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2017). Individual aspirations and company needs were evolving. Careers used to be predictable. There were paths and ladders.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 2, 2023

Companies who lead the way on EDI are 25%–36% more likely to outperform on profitability. They also have a 20% higher rate of innovation, according to a Boston Consulting Group study. You have to represent people to understand what they need That is exactly what she did in 2017 when working at Bristol City Council (BCC). “We

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