The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 25, 2022

The study found that while productivity has largely returned to pre-pandemic levels, there was a huge focus on Covid during 2020, which resulted in any researchers not tackling the issue initiating 36% fewer projects that year. “On the surface, it appears that researchers are as productive as they used to be,” the researchers say.

Short-term 110

Short-term Long-term Sharpe Conference 110

Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? His columns are read by millions, and he is a frequent keynote speaker at some of the major tech conferences. Most established companies focus on short-term financial metrics geared towards shareholder returns. Let’s start with the short-term mindset.

Disintermediation 130

Disintermediation Cost-Benefit Analysis Short-term Long-term 130

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Innovation has always been culturally synonymous with ‘the latest and greatest’, the ‘next big thing’, and on the surface this true. Companies like to rollout their innovations at trade shows and industry events to garner attention and praise for their good work. Be purposeful in defining value creation for your innovation practice.

Innovation 50

Innovation Real Estate Management Metrics 50

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

How can you design a successful, sustainable innovation process?—his The stress of dealing with difficult people dampens our creativity and productivity, degrades our ability to think clearly and make sound decisions, and causes us to disengage. Innovation doesn’t come from a sprint or a hackathon--it’s a result of maximizing ideaflow.

Books 369

Books Leadership P&L Blog 369

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Research from two well-respected organizations makes it clear that we have a big collective blind spot that’s dragging down productivity, innovation and economic performance. All the Six-Sigma, Lean, benchmarking and metrics in the world won’t help us lead people if we fail to recognize these realities.

Leadership 400

Leadership Six Sigma Competitive Advantage Consensus 400

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

I’ve sung CCL’s praises before – I love their research-based approach, resources, programs, and products. Innovation is important in any profession, and leadership development is no exception. The last few conferences I’ve attended all had speakers talking about the power of networks and network analysis.

Leadership Development 259

Leadership Development Development Leadership Executive Coaching 259

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

The first, Ready-Now Leaders: Cultivating Women in Leadership to Meet Tomorrow’s Business Challenges by DDI and The Conference Board, identifies “confidence” as one of the few but significant leadership differences between the sexes. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries.

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking.

Blog 306

Blog Brand Media Influence 306

HR Digest

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Our discussion about [specific aspect of the role] further fueled my excitement about contributing to your innovative team. Client Thank You Email Examples : “I wanted to take a moment to express my sincere thanks for choosing [product or service]. Try to mention people and projects by name to personalize the email.

How To 52

How To Letter Examples Project 52

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Kevin Oakes is the head of one of the world’s leading HR research firms, the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp). His book CULTURE RENOVATION: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company contains Kevin’s extensive experience and research into turning cultures into agile, innovative, and resilient powerhouses.

Open-book 100

Open-book Learning-by-Doing Definition Company 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

At a time when digital technology is transforming one industry after another, large companies tend to view innovation and disruption as the result of breakthrough discoveries or technological wonders. That’s our product, and that’s our passion. The corollary, of course, is “we don’t know how to do that.”

Technology 13

Technology Productivity Products Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Today, at large organizations, innovation is the new El Dorado. Chief executives and business unit leaders weave the word innovation into their PowerPoints, hoping it will magically yield better product ideas, or miraculous improvements to existing processes. I’m not (only) mocking the cult of innovation.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Chief Information Officer Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

Long-term 11

Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

How to start measuring the factors that are most critical to the success of the business and identify the metrics that express them. For well over a century managers have achieved increasing productivity on ever larger scales by dividing and subdividing work into smaller and smaller units. Most companies get metrics all wrong.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. Innovation in Cities. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Insight Center.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Without the ability to say “no” to low-level tasks in order to say “yes” to groundbreaking ones, people stop innovating. I worked with a software development company in which the CEO came up with a new product feature on a weekly basis. This misuse of talent is rampant in large organizations today.

Team 15

Team Metrics Project Innovation 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. This article was republished with the permission of sas com Magazine.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The value of failure has become a mantra in Silicon Valley, with the rise of events like FailCon , a conference “for startup founders to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success.” Recognize that innovation requires failure. But innovation of any sort entails risk and trying new things – and that mandates failure.

Ries 14

Ries Open-book Competitive Advantage Education 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

To keep everyone up-to-date, particularly across departments and functions, employees use electronic tools (e-mail, voice mail, conference calls, instant messaging, and social media). Consider Constellation Energy, a $14 billion dollar provider of power, natural gas, and energy products and services based in Baltimore.

Brainstorming 14

Brainstorming CFO Innovation Energy 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

After spending the weekend at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference , “quantifying chemistry”—identifying those talents, attributes and combinatorial skills that make a team play so much better than a group of talented individuals—has clearly become the new Holy Grail of sports analytics.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If they don’t like a company’s product, or an experience they had, the whole world will know about it. Making this connection can be more challenging for big established companies, whose primary success is built on products and value propositions from an earlier time. They already account for a third of the U.S.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

It is not hard to determine where any particular consumer is in the process, so tracking and metrics are straightforward and easy to calculate. The metrics are new, evolving, and unfamiliar, and so they seem unclear. In June 2009, they announced a program called TEDx that allow many to organize their own TED-inspired conference.

Marketing 17

Marketing Brand Mass Marketing Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

This should be obvious to all of us; after all, decisions don’t just materialize from the ether, ready to be executed on by managers sitting in a conference room primed to act. Instead, Jane’s successes are attributed to things like product decisions: Release of New Phone Drives Sales at Doe Industries.

Content 8

Content Engineering Education Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Called "Why US Productivity Can Grow Without Killing Jobs," it takes as a given that this would strike readers as counterintuitive. Could it really be that businesses could become more productive and yet not find themselves with excess workers standing around? What a conundrum! Well of course we know it is not one.

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Efficiency Long-term Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

And there are some short-cut metrics at each level to evaluate how we're doing. Key Metric: birth rates. Key Metric: the ratio of men and women (and nationalities) on the Executive Committee is the clearest indicator of a company's openness to 21st century realities. Key Metric: the divorce rate.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Comparing the conference call transcripts of different automobile manufacturers during earnings calls, it is clear that he is the only one who keeps emphasizing the long-term disruptive potential of Tesla. Putting such ambitious targets front of mind is a strategic move to keep investors’ eyes on the ball.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

The executives included heads of HR, innovation, IT, and diversity, and they represented a range of industries and sectors (tech, manufacturing, retail, professional services, education, startups, and others). times as often in Forbes’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, 4.4 But that was just anecdotal evidence.

Short-term 21

Short-term Diversity Long-term Survey 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2018

While this seemed like a small bet for a $165 billion company built on the mass production of vehicles, the deal was scouted, in part, by Jim Hackett, then head of Ford Smart Mobility who has since been elevated to CEO. This van is currently being tested in London ahead of volume production in 2019.

Business Model 8

Business Model Transportation ROI Metrics 8