The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

IMD Business School’s Mark Greeven and Imperial College London’s George Yip suggest that the engine of this growth is in what they refer to as China’s hidden champions. Digital dominance. The Chinese hegemony in fintech should perhaps come as no surprise, as there are a number of factors that are unique strengths for the nation.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The engineers around the punchcard reader had not been engaged in idle banter. The famous MIT Media Lab has developed a compact device, pictured above, to track and quantify these all-important employee interactions. You probably have already guessed what went wrong. They were exchanging tips and techniques to get better at their jobs.

Mayo 146

Mayo Executive Coaching Efficiency Handbook 146

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Lastly, if you don’t have a capabilities brochure already, develop one now. Connecting with audience members after a speech is a great way to develop qualified leads for your business.

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. 4) Develop an org chart to assign responsibilities and communicate it to everyone. How to apply the model.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

So you can read about companies that succeed in having technology systems that support continual improvement or go to conferences and learn, or interact with them online, or even go visit them. What those companies will tell others about what they do will almost never cover most of what is critical.

Examples 28

Examples Deming Software System 28

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Suddenly it hit Bob: he hadn’t checked to make sure engineering had included the new wiring diagram in the customer’s shipment that was due to go out first thing in the morning. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

Intangible Assets 9

Intangible Assets Operations Health Care Conference 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Rivals were developing digital technology to replace the existing analog standard. Engineers at the company came down squarely on the side of analog. What those engineers couldn’t see was that, for most listeners, digital technology’s advantages far outweighed the often undetectable losses from digitization.

Organization 8

Organization Engineering Technology Learning Curve 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Cheap, plentiful labor was readily available in developing countries like China, India, Mexico and Eastern Europe. Consider that many multinationals like GE and the big pharma companies expect that over 50 percent of their revenue growth over the next 10 years will come from developing economies. Not if you want to stay in the game.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

That's exactly what Portuguese airport operator ANA Aeroportos de Portugal did in its quest to attract more major airlines and connecting routes. After defining the passenger services strategy, Engine and ANA designed a set of service offerings that supported the three airport behavioral roles.

B2B 15

B2B Airlines Travel Stage-Gate 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. One publicly traded company, OnMobile , an operator of premium SMS services, now does business in 52 countries around the world. Yes, there are challenges.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Conference Wireless 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. For example, Dr. Velma Deleveaux, a director at Booz Allen Hamilton, leads a Science and Engineering business.

Succession 11

Succession Reputation Focus Group Leadership Styles 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

At RoboBusiness this week, a conference devoted to the business and technology of robots, the revelation for me was not just how far robotic capabilities have come but also the range of problems robots are already helping to solve. Take the robot developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute to assist in autism research.

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing CEO Technology Conference 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

I saw this technology paired seamlessly with some regular fluorescent lighting and working well in an interior conference room. An industrial paint application product/service that reduces toxic solvent use by 70% and is saving customers, mostly auto repair shops, $2 billion from simpler paint operations and reduced waste.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Too many tenured professors have never worked outside academia; they are familiar with neither the day-to-day operations of companies nor the intricate processes of how decisions are made. The economics of operating large campuses, and big faculties and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

Education 15

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Thinking of her own cousin Guillermo Pombo, an engineer who had recently graduated from the University of Miami and was struggling to start his own business, Helena could see where Conrad was coming from. operations. And yet her instinct was to oppose the idea. “Is there anything Unamano can do for me? It didn’t have U.S.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Over the last 250 years, waves upon waves of scientific and engineering advances have brought about an accelerating rise in living standards that even the two deadliest wars in history could not reverse. The digital revolution — the “mother of all technology developments”— marks a fork in the road.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Over the next decade, the global economic pie will grow, and the developed world's share of the result will shrink. The leadership teams of most companies are still dominated by male home country nationals, in a 20th century legacy model of sending expats around the globe to run local operations.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Short-term Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In the course of an independent study during my third year of law school at Chicago, I came across an interesting experiment going on at nearby Motorola, which had built software to "engineer" complex contracts. In my notes of the conference, I wrote down, simply, "Coase!". Operations Research Strategy' I picked Prof.

Cost 8

Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

General Services Administration after a scandal involving an extravagant employee conference that involved lots of federal contract violations. Though she wasn''t involved in the conference, she took the fall. A team at MIT is focused on developing "Internet 0," a slower, simpler system for bringing IP to the smallest devices.

Rogers 8

Rogers Conference Health Care Bond 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Now it’s less than 15 years. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

As Professor Simon Baron-Cohen noted, they are quite similar to the stereotypical engineer or professor: disinterested in nonverbal communication, non-empathetic, and somewhat detached from interpersonal contact; happiest when on their own or interacting with their own thoughts rather than people.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware How To Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

App developers from Stockholm to San Francisco are anxiously counting down the days til the November release of the Apple Watch SDK (or “Software Development Kit”), which will give them the tools to begin building their own concepts. I’d argue that these developers stand at a crossroads for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Learning-by-Doing Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Global teams face the challenge of having to operate with limited face-to-face contact and across vast distances, time zones, language backgrounds, and contexts, as well as cultural differences. Such insights give teammates a better understanding of their colleagues' attitudes, behaviors, and motivations, fostering the development of trust.

Globalization 12

Globalization Team Stress Types of Knowledge 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Imagine a conference room of individuals drawn from the far corners of the globe to work in your company or to do business with you. What do you do? Hire interpreters?

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

If you think about how new products and services are hatched and brought to market today, it isn't usually the doing of just one entity — least of all the corporate R&D labs that once served as our engines of tomorrow. million developers to contribute to 260,000 projects. And no sector is complete without its own conference.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. See also here , here , and here.) They also worked with the CIO to help them to understand the business.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Miles down the California coast, they parked their bikes under the eucalyptus outside a winery conference center. Friends since their engineering days at Stanford, VV Tikekar and Reza Rastegar had each been involved in several start-ups before joining forces on AndFound. It wasn’t a random stop. A Hard Slap at VCs.

Case Study 8

Case Study Entrepreneur Business Model Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. The listening ‘ear’, an array of sensors in a 500-pound ‘birdcage’ dome that sits on the sea floor or on subsea equipment, was developed at the GE Measurement and Control site in Bergen, Norway.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

Some are actual housework — getting the coffee for the morning stand-up, or cleaning up after a lunch meeting — and some are the unsung operational or administrative work that keeps the company rolling along. Procuring the conference room. Getting everyone on the conference line. We call them office housework.

Management 12

Management Committee Diversity Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The two approaches share a set of key principles and practices, with the main differences arising from jargon: Sociocracy, developed in the 1970s, was based on principles of cybernetics ; holacracy represents a repackaging of the principles in the vocabulary of software engineering.

Proposal 8

Proposal Self-aware Engineering CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Machine learning models used in a popular search engine struggle to differentiate human images from those of gorillas , and show female searchers ads for lower paying jobs relative to male users. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. So how can we mitigate bias in machine learning? Adopting AI.

Sample 8

Sample Project Self-aware Training 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

I captured some of these difference effects in a cartoon called A Tale of "O," about what happens when there are very few O's in a group of mostly X's, operating with X's as the mainstream standard; O's get stared at for the wrong reasons and find their effectiveness undermined. An enlightened U.S.

Fashion 14

Fashion Conference Engineering Diversity 14