The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The growth in digital twins has been driven by technological improvements in areas such as the internet of things and wireless connectivity. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 The advent of 5G and continued improvements in artificial intelligence promise to make the technology even more powerful.

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 114

Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

My mailbox wonders why companies still don't know me well enough to send less junk mail. This could be worth an estimated $40 million annually to the company. With so much stuff coming at me from all angles, daily prosperity relies on spam filters, Internet search engines, and personalized music and movie recommendations.

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Learning-by-Doing Insurance Wireless Discount 276

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2020

In today’s world, cyber attackers are becoming more and more innovative, and cybersecurity is very challenging as it is more vulnerable now these days as businesses now opting for cloud services to reduce the risk of cyber attackers. Power plants, hospitals, and even financial service companies rely on cyber-defense programs.

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Tips Software Banking System 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years. Garry Ridge – CEO, WD-40 Company. Healthcare Leaders.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Key players in 3D displays include most of the top display makers in Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China in addition to several startup companies with unique technologies. One company uses a miniaturized Light Field Projector Module (LFPM). That miniaturization is ideal for companies eager to reduce the size and weight of 3D displays.

Technology 135

Technology Content Video Globalization 135

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Although it's far too soon to tell whether that program will lead to a major new line of business, Whole Foods should be commended for continuing to innovate during the current economic doldrums when many companies have instead retrenched by making across-the-board cutbacks, even in product R&D. Wireless carriers in the U.S.

Innovation 14

Innovation Wireless Discount Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Many leaders of midsize companies – especially if they’re the founders – are constitutionally inclined to see new opportunities around every corner. So they begin tinkering with their core strategy, burning up resources while their companies wander off their tried-and-true growth path. Tinkering can kill midsize companies.

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Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Most companies sabotage their own innovation processes without meaning to. Innovation is episodic. We've all seen this movie: A few people in the organization have a burning desire to foster more innovation, or a different kind of innovation, so they invent a new process. It's easy to ax innovation.

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Process Innovation Diversity Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Zipcar counts as a disruptive innovation. The latter is according to Clayton Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald in their recent HBR article “ What is Disruptive Innovation?” ” They also write that “disruptive innovations originate in low-end or new-market footholds.” Uber doesn’t.

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Disruptive Innovation Definition Innovation Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

As generations-old business models are upended by innovations in retail, financial services, bookselling, and a host of other industries, companies must continually adjust their strategic positioning to edge out rivals. But then it recovered by innovating — fast. McDonald’s provides an excellent illustration.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Part of the issue here is lumping together incremental innovation with disruptive innovation.

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Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. I had no intention of testing my ability to start an international leadership development company. Their questions can lead to innovation.

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Development Team How To Wiseman 549

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2013

In three recent blog posts we looked at the innovation mindset in individuals, profiling game changers Jerry Buss , Peter Jackson , and Shantha Ragunathan. Innovators maintain a laser focus on outcomes , avoid getting caught in the activity trap , and proactively "expand the pie" to make an impact. Take, for example, 3M Corporation.

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Innovation Engineering Wireless Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

This may sound as though we’ve got our facts backward, but your company can significantly increase its knowledge output by cutting R&D spending. The company’s R&D expenditures dropped by about $1.5 Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Take Cisco, for example.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

wireless service provider , is now adding the iPhone to its lineup. Verizon's main competitor and Apple's first partner AT&T, the number two provider, enjoyed a growth spurt advantage over Verizon in every quarter since the iPhone was introduced, according to Chetan Sharma , an independent wireless analyst cited by The New York Times.

Wireless 15

Wireless Suri Power Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. The record labels grumbled that Apple sucked the lion’s share of the profits out of the industry, but it was too late. for three years.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco is an easy company to admire. Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The company promised back in 2009 to bring out a Wi-Fi Flip in early 2010. or "How can we push the innovation envelope?"

Wireless 11

Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

Sensors, smartphones, tablets, wireless networks, and Big Data are starting to transform transportation and infrastructure. Speed bumps stem from a classic tension between entrepreneurs who found companies or change them and established organizations, whether industry incumbents or government entities. Photo by Andrew Nguyen.

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Transportation Entrepreneur Wireless Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

This, combined with high turnover rates and greater freelance and entrepreneurial opportunities, means that if companies want to retain these valued workers, they will have to double their efforts to meet Millennials where they are. A 2015 Gallup Poll found that Millennials are the least engaged cohort in the workplace, with only 28.9%

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Policies Motivation Chief Executive Officer White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

As companies struggle to develop a new generation of internationally competent leaders, many are turning to localization instead. Super-Green Companies Make Tempting Targets (HBS Working Knowledge). When your company stumbles, don’t expect its past CSR initiatives to earn it warm and fuzzy treatment from the media.

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Wireless How To McKinsey Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Yesterday, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, the electric car company, announced that Tesla would make its patents freely available to competitors. After all, the conventional wisdom holds that patents are essential to keep competitors from imitating innovations, especially for small startup companies. Consider first the benefits.

Technology 8

Technology Wireless PR Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. Merck and Co. Integration is key.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

We were in a depressed area of the province of Rizal, part of the sprawling city of Manila in the Philippines, conducting field research with a local company looking for new growth opportunities. She proudly began to talk about how she had a prepaid wireless broadband card that allowed him to access education via the family mobile phone.

Wireless 8

Wireless Class Hotels Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

The rapid pace of digital change has put companies in the unenviable position of trying to decide which tech trends to invest in and when. All too often, much-touted “revolutionary” innovations offer only incremental benefits at best; at worst, they are a costly distraction. The result?

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Trends Hotels Competitive Advantage Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

I've spent the week in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) , where billion-dollar companies unveil multi-million-dollar products looking for mainstream popularity, and where startups unveil ideas, looking for angles and angels. You don't make wireless Airplay speakers. Be bold, be shameless. Billions.

Marketing 15

Marketing Press Release Wireless Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

It's been interesting to watch computer companies go after the entertainment business, Internet time-wasters competing with televised time-wasters, and games played on social media sites scooping up revenue that traditional game companies might at one point have called their own. By 2011, data revenue had jumped to $59 billion.

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Analysis Industry Wireless Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

I often find myself immersed in the perfect pacing of a well-constructed mystery, the flawless delivery of that once-in-a-lifetime monologue, the scale and grandeur of the next big blockbuster — I get so caught up in all of it, sometimes I forget that I generally go there to tell companies their businesses are in trouble.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Take the case of Safaricom , Kenya’s largest cell phone company and creator with Vodafone of the popular wireless banking product, M-Pesa. Kroton started by developing innovative curricula for K-12 education in one province, and then grew to become a national leader in online higher education.

Marketing 8

Marketing Supply Chain Banking Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Leverage big data.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

They were all ignored by the wireless operator, who was preoccupied with transmitting passenger messages and by the crew, who were focused on breaking the speed record. Some companies, like Borders, Kodak and Polaroid, ignore the signs. The Titanic received six warnings of ice on the day of the collision. So pay attention.

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Disruptive Innovation Wireless Christensen Film 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We studied Omada’s program as part of our Harvard Medical School initiative to identify and share knowledge about innovative approaches to major health challenges that primary care providers play the lead in treating. This provides the company with an incentive to improve participants’ lifestyle habits and prevent diabetes.

Health Care 10

Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Today, innovative customer service means being able to contact a company on multiple platforms — not just by phone, but via email, web, Twitter, Facebook, and mobile devices. A good example of a company that''s applying this strategy today is TurboTax. Invest in a strong data analytics platform.

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FAQ Wireless Information Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A partnership with Starbucks elevated the mobile payment company Square to a whole new level. The champions I’ve known have been motivated by a host of related factors – generating personal visibility, drawing attention and resources to their domain, or being perceived as innovators. Entrepreneurship Innovation Sales'

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Stephenson Due Diligence Finance Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Kudos to Microsoft for not offering an across-the-board price cut – the move most companies would have made. If you were the CEO of a company that is paying $50 a license and now see that Microsoft is charging $15 for the same operating system to select customers, what would you do? Trust me, I’ve been in those harried meetings.

Discount 8

Discount Airlines Price Licensing 8