The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

Healthcare is not renowned for its high pay and may struggle to attract talent in these areas in sufficient volume and quality when they’re fighting against organizations in finance, technology, and automotive sectors, who traditionally offer much higher packages to workers.

Skills 93

Skills Report Technology Long-term 93

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Top-rated Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management. Aicha Evans – Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Automotive. Automotive. Automotive. Automotive. Technology. Tesla Motor. Alphabet (Google). Technology. Procter & Gamble. Consumer Goods. Technology. Johnson & Johnson. Biotech & Pharma. Walt Disney. Prudential Financial. Cisco Systems. Communication. Biotech & Pharma. HSBC Holdings. Wells Fargo.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

COO 11

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

If you want to understand the future of Tesla, and Elon Musk’s role in it — something many are keen to do, given the spate of negative headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th century. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

AI tools today vary along a spectrum ranging from tools that have been proven to solve business problems (for example, pattern detection for predictive maintenance) to those with low awareness and currently-limited-but-high-potential utility (for example, application of AI to developing competitive strategy).

Survey 10

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. For the past 10 years, my research, writing, and consulting have focused on the question of how to build robust ecosystem strategies.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. For instance, at one automotive company, the CMO and CFO worked together with their teams to draw up a global set of financial and non-financial metrics for the short and long term. Ask for the CFO’s help.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

and with half of its fund assets indexed, it is not going anywhere if it does not like its portfolios’ strategies or results. But that does mean indexed investors will remain passive if a company’s strategy could be strengthened or its results could be better. ” And everybody on the team should be savvy on strategy.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

Might we expose our strategy to competitors? If you’re in automotive, you might look at other highly regulated industries, like healthcare and finance, which manage to experiment considerably despite stringent regulatory environments. Might we tarnish our brand? Look across adjacent industries.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Avoid specializing by customer type (SaaS vs. Ecommerce vs. Automotive) or specific types of problems–your go-to-market is still changing, continue optimizing for flexibility. Strategies like outsourcing, hiring lower-cost people, or exotic employment offer tempting cost savings to the finance-minded folks. What not to do.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry. The common denominator to all these strategies is patience.

Innovation 9

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 9

Chris Brady

MARCH 3, 2010

It was a 1996 C 220 and was the best automotive purchase I have ever made. Your competitors will be left to launch smear campaigns, copy-cat products, and monopolistic strategies in a feeble attempt to keep up. .  Over the course of three years of ownership it cost me an average of $322 per month in repairs!

Travel 58

Travel Letter Productivity Products 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

If that displaced 20% of the 250 million cars Americans own, consumers would save $150 billion, $3,000 for every car displaced, and 1 million jobs would disappear in the automotive related industries — manufacturing, insurance, finance, etc. But hope is not a strategy. There are 3.5 million jobs would vanish.

Retail 9

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

My firm, Frontier Strategy Group (FSG), expects that formal talks will begin in late August or early September, after the required 90-day waiting period. However, new tariffs or more-restrictive rules of origin would likely only fall on a few industries, such as the automotive sector. Congress of its intent to begin the process.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Third, as a result of strong performances by worker- and employee-owned companies, it is becoming easier for workers to overcome arguably the biggest hurdle to worker buyouts: financing. One area that seems ripe for this is in the arena of connected and autonomous mobility systems in the automotive and aerospace industries.

ESOP 11

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 11