The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

For instance, during 2020, GDP in advanced economies plummeted, with many businesses having to shut for prolonged periods, and nearly all having to rapidly adapt to the changing conditions. The Covid pandemic has undoubtedly been one of the most disruptive periods in most organizations’ history. Organizational agility.

Company 129

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 129

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the new book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.”

Charan 65

Charan Bureaucracy Books Micromanagement 65

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

This new era of focus on creative problem solving has been ushered in by massive disruption of the old order in business and society. New business models are rapidly emerging from revolutionary Internet, machine learning, and bioscience technologies that threaten the status quo in every field. Norman Vincent Peale.

Disaggregation 81

Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 81

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

And, as anyone who closely follows simulation and prototyping tools knows, their use has become pervasive in manufacturing businesses, even though companies still grapple with the integration and management issues I wrote about in 2003. I had no idea how their use would fuel the rise of today’s online businesses.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

In 2020, our Diversity and Inclusion team and the Black Employee Network launched the Taking Action Initiative task force to explore and drive actions we could take to make meaningful change internally and externally to the company.

Software 98

Software Engineering Learning-by-Doing Diversity 98

Lead Change Blog

MAY 29, 2020

At present, it’s hard to tackle any issue pertaining to leadership or management without addressing Covid-19, which is impacting on marketplaces and workplaces across the globe. But what’s the relationship between leadership and innovation and why exactly should you care? How Can Leaders Successfully Innovate in Their Companies.

Innovation 236

Innovation Leadership Long-term Technology 236

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. While most executives are pros at managing change, digital transformation is a much deeper change than the usual process or system update.

Business Model 8

Business Model Human Capital Real Estate Forrester 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Back before the passage of the Affordable Care Act, MedStar’s leaders decided they needed a strategic plan to reimagine the company in 2020. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Advanced technology is at the core of virtually every company’s business model today. Senior leaders must be ready to open up the flood gates so managers and employees closest to the client interface can surface these tensions and discuss them openly. Entire value chains are being digitized. Hold everyone accountable.

Succession 8

Succession Agility Globalization Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At a more macro level, the possibilities opened up by connected, more efficient production and new business models are also highly promising. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization.

Maturity 8

Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

The state has a successful cap and trade program covering power plant pollution and a 33%-by-2020 renewable energy mandate, the most stringent of the 29 state renewable standards currently on the books. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts. Government Risk management Sustainability'

Power 8

Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Franchising 13

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Our analysis suggests that big companies should focus instead on what we call "innovation at scale" — that is, achieving repeatable and sustainable organic growth from new products, services and business models that build on the core business. Ask people simply to "innovate" and the likely response is a mishmash of ideas.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Disruptive Innovation McKinsey 8