The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

Similarly, the researchers believe that layoffs don’t necessarily reflect the quality of the firm’s offering, in the way that product-harm crises inevitably do. It’s likely that the merit of the firm’s prior actions will be called into question, however, as will their future prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The automotive industry is being disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving cars, just as home appliances is being disrupted by the Internet of Things and smart appliances, home entertainment by on-demand content providers, and apparel by online personal stylists such as Stitch Fix and Trunk Club. Product: mechanical vs. interactive.

Automotive 8

Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 9, 2019

A recent paper published in the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management aims to shatter some of these myths and analyze both where we currently are with the technology, and where we might go next. Significant time savings – people can use in-vehicle time to be more productive.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a coexistent relationship that allows for considerable data to be generated that supporters believe drives productivity and allows organizations to find the optimum configuration of their facilities. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 27, 2022

New relationship allows GP clients to integrate Situational Leadership ® course with existing comprehensive leadership development solutions. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, automotive, financial services, technology, aerospace and defense industries, and other commercial and government customers.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. Gordon Berridge: Did you have a mentor at Rio Tinto, if so, how important was that person to you and your development?

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Regardless of the focus of the endeavor or the product or service of an organization, Expeditionary Leaders like Arthur know that they are ultimately responsible for the well-being of other people—those they lead, those they encounter—and for the web of relationships that flow from their center. How can we lower the footprint on water usage?

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Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. The tight timeframe and “what must we all start working on” clause pushed people from platitudes like ‘working smarter’ or ‘being more innovative’ into concrete actions, including which sacred cow projects to stop. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In our world of excess everything, savvy innovators realize that less is actually best. Over the past six years I've looked at more than 2,000 ideas — products, services, processes and strategies. Over the past six years I've looked at more than 2,000 ideas — products, services, processes and strategies. Loose reins.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

But, as with so many other products and services, the equipment cost too much. Such innovations in automotive research & development will accelerate in emerging countries where simplification and cost are critical issues. Initially, AVL tried to introduce those rich-world services into the Indian market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Companies based in developed economies can learn much from the Mars mission about competing and operating in emerging markets: Create an audacious, inspiring goal. Emerging economies have the bulk of the world’s population, yet most of them are non-consumers of products and services that we take for granted in the West.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Recently, in New York, we participated in a panel discussion organized by the Asia Society called " Jugaad Innovation: Reigniting American Ingenuity " (you can watch a video here ).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

Designers and entrepreneurs have been experimenting with live prototyping — putting unfinished product ideas in the context of real markets and real customer situations — for years, and now bigger businesses have begun to catch on. For example, Google Labs is an arm of Google that focuses on creating revolutionary new products.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

Many of us hold principles that keep us from pursuing a more productive lifestyle. For example, one of the most common ones is the belief that increasing productivity, or getting the most out of your time, will decrease the quality of your work, or your ability to do tasks perfectly. race cars] as an innovation test-bed for road cars.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

A long-term view towards driving down costs from electric vehicle parts suppliers, spurring the development of more widespread EV infrastructure, and thereby making EVs more appealing and affordable – all of which would ultimately benefit Tesla. Traditional automakers define themselves by their role within the automotive industry.

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Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

It has been ranked as car of the year by a number of automotive outlets, and one friend of mine who lives in San Francisco has gloated noisily about his chance to drive it. But let's take a step back and consider the nature of the controversy, which I think is rooted in the way many inventors approach innovation. the inventor thinks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Gulf Coast, an announcement by Flextronics of plans to create a $32 million product innovation center in Silicon Valley, and a decision by Airbus to build a $600 million assembly line in Alabama for its jetliners. manufacturers have also closed the gap somewhat by enhancing their productivity and their use of automation.

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Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Clearly, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technologies are finding their way into most everything that we touch and use in everyday life, including consumer products, financial services and healthcare delivery. According to a recent Hyundai Research Institute report, quoted here , South Korea lags behind the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Most senior managers agree that taking risks is important for innovation, but in far too many cases, they don’t act like they believe this. For example, one global organization, where one of us conducted a culture survey several years ago, considered itself to be highly supportive of developing new products, services, and practices.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Traditional automotive manufacturers certainly do.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

It will ease the way for companies launching and updating digital products, but it presents steep new learning curves that companies will have to master if they are to be successful. In more and more businesses, physical objects are no longer the primary basis for innovation and differentiation. Growing Digital Business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. This was the case at Harman , which had achieved extraordinary success in the high-end automotive infotainment systems for luxury cars. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

For entrepreneurs in developing nations where experienced institutional investors are scarce and starting companies is very challenging, the impact of these latent forces becomes hugely vital. While these two firms have world-class intellectual properties, I think their true innovation is in the pricing model around their businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In order for Nissan to actually pursue the Vision Zero goal, the company is forced to think differently about innovation and product development, developing technologies that keep cars from hitting each other. Rethinking products and how you talk to your customers at the same time is systemic thinking at its best.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Gordon’s main point is that we no longer have the kind of robust, broad-based innovation that powered economic growth and rising living standards between, roughly, 1870 and 1970. The innovations may come, but the people at the top of the income distribution will continue to capture nearly all of the gains. This is certainly true.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To make big improvements in productivity and customer service, people in an organization must collaborate across corporate hierarchies, functions, companies, and geographies. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Collaborating horizontally to create customer value.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies).

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

Ford’s product lineup hadn't kept up with changing consumer tastes and different regions pursued different automobile configurations which diluted the brand identity around the world. Given the state of internal affairs at the company, it’s no wonder the Ford brand was struggling on the outside.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

There is a major trend in the design of physical products. Engineers are no longer design experts; they are mediators who structure and enable design interactions between imaginative customers and innovative suppliers of technologies and systems. Infosys Technology has launched a co-creation practice.

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