The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Not only are delivery robots not appearing to make any practical inroads into the last-mile market, but research from the University of Michigan also suggests they don’t even make a positive contribution to lowering our carbon footprint. Carbon footprint. Optimizing the last mile.

Parcell 113

Parcell Analysis System Technology 113

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

A series of breakthrough technologies and new business models are destroying the old rule that bigger is better. The global business environment is decomposing into smaller yet more profitable markets, so businesses can no longer rely on scaling up to compete, but must instead embrace a new economies of unscale. That has now changed.

Parcell 15

Parcell Niche Marketing Business Model Education 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. At the storage and software company EMC Corp., In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Each department trusts its own system, but when the task at hand requires that data be shared across silos, the company’s various systems simply do not talk to one and other. Then people misunderstand the data and make mistakes.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. That’s a healthy company. The same disruption is driving both the decline and, later, the re-emergence.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

And that is part and parcel of professional life. Damian Vaughn, head of programs at BetterUp, a San Francisco–based company that connects employees with executive-level coaching, believes that being good at sales means that you understand both the “political and personal element” behind every buying decision.

Skills 21

Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

And I couldn't resist following up with an email Q&A: Justin Fox: A lot of smart people have been saying for a while now that public-company executives should put less time and effort into dealing with Wall Street. JF: But shouldn't executives be running their companies, not dealing with investors all the time? Why's that?

Short-term 12

Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? Yet, when it comes to the workforce — one of a company's most expensive and valuable assets — too many executives rely on hunches, making decisions without making use of relevant data. A man who is. Step 3: Capture relevant data.

Metrics 13

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 13

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. Accordingly, it consists of a collection of broadly defined markets (“where to play”) and strategies (“how to win”), rather than a group of more fully defined businesses.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Our bet is based on the fact that many companies in many industries are facing pivotal moments that absolutely demand a 2-in-1 mindset. Not to mention the companies' own lifecycles: Companies spend far less time today on the Fortune 500 and S&P 500 lists than was typical when these indices were formed.). Valuable enough?"

Parcell 12

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. Growing up, he’d constantly tailed Grant around the fields, watching him experiment with crops and technologies that would help the farm survive dry spells.

Case Study 8

Case Study Parcell Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Our companies have created it, expanded it, perfected it in ways that they can’t compete,” referring to the Europeans. tech companies. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. and China take the lead in tech innovation. How has Europe dealt with the situation? position.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8