The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 7, 2021

This was further emphasized by research from Stanford, which highlighted the challenges in collaborating across the kind of global teams that are so common in the biggest organizations. Global fluency. Each participant played the game with an online partner. .

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Diversity Globalization Creativity Uncertainty 80

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

With about $33 billion in global revenue last year, Mars would be in the top 100 of the Fortune 500 , ahead of McDonald's, Starbucks, and General Mills. For example, a typical Mars plant manager influences associates by his or her ability to pace development of operational systems and innovative approaches.

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Forrester Brand Cooper Executive Coaching 130

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Decentralize and empower global R&D units.

Globalization 9

Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 9

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

In such a complex world, the role of a leader is not just to give direction, but to create an environment in which people cooperate and collectively fulfill the mission of the organization with far more autonomy and accountability than in the past. He was the CTO of a global manufacturing company. Tom Goodell. .

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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 135

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation. ”

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 12

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. Nance MacLeod ( Executive Coach Global ) To choose One Competency I would have to say Emotional/Conversational Intelligence. They can be learned, absorbed, honed.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

At Cabot Creamery Cooperative, we’ve seen firsthand that combining corporate self-interest with support for social and environmental issues is not a costly distraction. ” Benchmarking and Operational Cost Savings. Our story is not unique. “B Corp certification lends more credence to our programs.

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Cooper Benchmarking Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

For African companies, this presents a special chance to climb the food chain of global competitiveness. After all, many of China’s present national champions began life as local partners in joint ventures with Japanese or Western operators. Foreign operators bring with them processes, operating models, and organizational cultures.

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Short-term Globalization Operations Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Now we have global nomads building new businesses straight from their phones. ” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. .” The fifth major innovation on the horizon is called blockchain scaling. This is slow.

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Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies.

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CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Investors are genuinely concerned that regulators are incapable of making sure that published financial statements of companies in their exchanges accurately reflect the true operating positions of the firms. Regulators must innovate and create structures that correct inherent flaws which continue to stymie market efficiencies.

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Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Given political climates around the world and a new wariness around international cooperation, the private sector could find itself in the hot seat: trying to pick up the slack on big issues from climate change to sustainable development. I call this new breed of companies the “inclusive innovators.” Segment the SDGs.

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Development Company Innovation Goal 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Rather than cooperating, too many functions end up competing for power, influence, and limited resources. For example, I worked with a global consumer products company in which the commercial organization — the set of departments responsible for developing new products and bringing them to market — was deeply fragmented.

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How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Fostering innovation. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Over the past couple of years, we have collaborated with the leadership development team at Cargill, one of the world’s largest global agricultural processing and distribution companies, to apply these ideas in a program for high-potential managers called “Leading in a Complex World.”

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

What’s more, businesses wanting to operate in both the UK and the EU will need to undergo the same bureaucracy twice, which will add an estimated £1 billion to their cost of doing business. It’s inevitably a tall order to expect the UK to replicate bodies whose costs were previously spread across 28 different nations.

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Report Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 140

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

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Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Increasingly, companies are applying data-driven methodologies such as carbon footprinting, product indexing, lifecycle analysis, and ecosystem services valuation to support smarter decision-making and business innovation. And business leadership knows it. First, let’s consider sustainable development.

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Analysis Licensing Globalization Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

The 300,000 companies in the association’s data set have more than doubled their profits from operations over the past 13 years, outpacing their corporate counterparts in the country. Germany is ranked fourth in the global economy, but it’s home to only 28 companies in the Fortune 500.

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Industry Long-term Short-term Class 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Exposed to foreign competition, many Chinese firms eschew long-term investments in innovation and instead focus on lowering costs in existing manufacturing activities. Simply because of its size, it commands attention in global negotiations on trade, finance, and the environment. China is obviously an important economic player.

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Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

After Jeff Immelt threw down the gauntlet for building a global software center, GE faced significant physical, organizational, and cultural challenges. Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Take Maaike, a newly appointed partner in a global consulting firm. Despite having a full plate of client projects, she signed up to work on a massive survey to understand the concerns of chief operating officers.

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Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Just last month, a self-organized team from another Indian company, Mahindra and Mahindra , (M&M) won the corporate award for our own $300 House Open Design Challenge (with the help of Jovoto.com and prize sponsor Ingersoll Rand, we hosted a global online contest to raise interest in design for the poor. We received exactly 300 entries!)

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

Cooper 16

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

Apple and Google, for example, each control a popular mobile phone operating system platform (and key apps on that platform), Amazon controls the largest online merchant platform, and Facebook controls the largest social network platform. Less innovation in markets dominated by data-opolies. Covert surveillance.

Company 10

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Typically ensconced in corporate databases, and tightly held in order to maintain competitive advantage, this data contains tremendous possible insights and avenues for policy innovation. First, data cooperatives or pooling involve corporations and other entities joining together to create shared data resources.

Company 9

Company Policies Media Analysis 9

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Firstly, the backing of Bertil Hult is crucial, as not only does this underpin the desire to back ventures that want to improve the world, but it also provides the accelerator with a more long-term focus than many others that rely on exits to sustain operations. Lastly, the six week residential accelerator is a fully immersive experience.

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Entrepreneur Long-term Crisis Mentor 68

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Indeed, these teams seem to use swarm intelligence, making decisions collectively and coming up with innovative moves on the fly. They have adopted a silo mentality of departmental self-interest, maintaining rigid, top-down hierarchies that act as a barrier to cooperative participation and promote a dependency on managers.

Cooper 8

Cooper Objective Short-term Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Ultimately, new innovations and critical problem solving are realized through relationships. Today’s global workforce is often blind to the bigger picture, other than being able to identify themselves as a dot in a social network map or a box on a bulky org chart. Cooperative and helping behaviors go down by over 80%.

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Learning-by-Doing Project Examples Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

lifted the 40-year-old ban on exporting American oil, and the maiden shipments are finding their way to global markets allowing U.S. Thanks largely to the decline in energy prices, the US airline industry is enjoying operating margins above 15%, according to a recent economic analysis that our firm conducted. That has enabled the U.S.

Price 8

Price Energy Airlines Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. It’s the channel through which you sell your initiatives to the people you depend on for cooperation and support. For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things. The list goes on. 2 (2004): 349–399.

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How To Diversity Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

To learn more about how Harvard Business School can help you prepare for the challenges of global leadership, visit the program website. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” How to Brand a Next-Generation Product. Developing the Global Leader. “It doesn’t happen overnight.

Education 8

Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2018

At the European Center for Strategic Innovation (ECSI), we examined numerous corporate AI initiatives among large organizations, and identified five key roles that can help AI units to develop the right mission and scope of work to succeed. Observing others translates into funding ventures or start-ups innovating at the frontier of AI.

Technology 8

Technology Constraint Tools Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a rapidly diversifying, entrepreneurial, and globally connected business region. It saw 5% annual growth for nearly a decade before the global recession, and the International Monetary Fund reports that it's growing strongly again — about 5% in 2011.

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Class Globalization Survey Cooper 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Despite standard operating procedures and global norms, people create local patterns everywhere they work, and these local patterns define work more strongly than centralized initiatives. Rather than creating stand-alone programs, leaders need innovative ways to embed inclusion in their social system. Focus on Local Practices.

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Team Diversity Company Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion. These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations.

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Price Team Sports Franchising 8