The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

By automating tasks like booking and contactless check-in, AI has liberated staff members to dedicate their attention to delivering exceptional, tailored experiences to guests in a prompt and cost-effective manner. Consequently, it comes as no astonishment that AI has emerged as a transformative force within the hospitality industry.

Hotels 116

Hotels Influence Ethics GDP 116

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While there have been undoubted ebbs and flows, the last century has seen growth in GDP like never before. Among the key factors in this slowdown is the aging of populations across the developed world, but the authors also cite factors such as the transition towards service-based economies and a slowdown in the rate of innovation.

Globalization 104

Globalization GDP Long-term Social Capital 104

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

For instance, pre-Covid, Tokyo alone was estimated to have a GDP of around $1.6 trillion in GDP alone by 2035. The data found that highly skilled workers benefit from high density with higher wages, but lower-skilled workers struggle with the high cost of living in the city. Liveable cities.

GDP 143

GDP Technology Policies Engineering 143

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2022

Research from Accenture suggests that these difficulties could wipe €920 billion from GDP across the Eurozone alone during 2023, which equates to just under 8%. The report reveals that Covid alone cost the Eurozone around €112 billion due to the supply chain disruptions during 2021 and the invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated the situation.

Supply Chain 130

Supply Chain Report GDP Consensus 130

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 8, 2011

This really has to be a war on job loss, on low workplace energy, on healthcare costs, on low graduation rates, on brain drain, and on community disengagement,” he says. Those things destroy cities, destroy job growth and destroy city GDP. More money, jobs and GDP turns on who is named manager than on any other decision,” says Clifton.

Books 228

Books Review GDP Entrepreneur 228

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We’ve been puzzled by the fact that business travel has been growing faster than world GDP, despite the widespread adoption of alternatives like Skype, FaceTime, email, etc.,” In efforts to cut back on costs, the pandemic has shown that real estate and business travel are among the first areas to explore. the researchers say. “We

Travel 137

Travel Tacit Knowledge Airlines GDP 137

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The authors highlight how so much of the debate around immigration focuses on the cost of providing basic public services, but it overlooks the significant benefits immigrants provide to the community and to the economy. There is a double urgency to calculating these impacts,” the researchers say.

Banking 116

Banking GDP Long-term Construction 116

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 26, 2020

hit to GDP, with 4,000 more deaths. The authors provide a direct comparison with China, who introduced a full lockdown, and saw a near 10% fall in GDP in the first quarter of 2020. “We are hopeful that perhaps there could be other more effective ways to target social distancing to get the maximum benefit for the least cost.”

GDP 127

GDP Comparison Travel Information 127

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 10, 2022

The analysis found that GDP would likely have fallen by around twice as much during 2020 if remote working was not the option it ultimately was. The researchers explain that this claim only really held water if the only inputs were those associated with traditional workplaces, such as energy costs or office space.

Productivity 123

Productivity Products GDP Survey 123

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 3, 2022

The report also highlights the considerable personal costs people bare when they move abroad. One of the main reasons for this lack of concrete planning is the cost of moving itself, with the authors suggesting that it cost the 1.8 ” Making the move. Various routes.

GDP 68

GDP Cost Report Incentives 68

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

of global GDP. This has to be set alongside the high environmental costs in many of the countries in the study, but particularly those with a tradition of energy intensive industry, such as Ukraine. Environmental costs. Driving change. This relationship was unsurprisingly found to be strongest in energy-intensive sectors.

Energy 88

Energy Quality Banking GDP 88

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 8, 2020

Such countries saw their GDP fall by around 20%, due to drops in consumer demand and supply chain disruptions. By contrast, if restrictions are lifted over a short timeframe, and then reintroduced, this would increase the costs by a third. ”

Supply Chain 89

Supply Chain Globalization GDP Short-term 89

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2022

The analysis found that GDP would likely have fallen by around twice as much during 2020 if remote working was not the option it ultimately was. The researchers explain that this claim only really held water if the only inputs were those associated with traditional workplaces, such as energy costs or office space.

GDP 59

GDP Analysis Productivity Products 59

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 16, 2021

Their hypothesis was that if these things vanish then our incentive for living in the city vanishes too, especially given the costs associated with big-city living, such as higher rents, pollution, and so on. The GDP of the larger cities was found to decline by 16%, but there was also a decline in GDP of 2.4% The bright lights.

GDP 91

GDP Quality Media Incentives 91

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After all, research from the IMF shows that low-skilled immigration raises labor productivity and GDP per capita, with these gains typically shared across the population. Such an attitude is not only elitist, but also illogical.

Skills 122

Skills GDP Analysis System 122

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 30, 2020

This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP. “There is, of course, a cost to consider as white, male doctors and lawyers and other professionals are replaced by, or competing with, other people,” the researchers say.

GDP 75

GDP Marketing Advertising Technology 75

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Are we all entrepreneurs now? A decline in disruption.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. It removes a major source of cost/effort to both supplier and customer and relies on simply being smart with what you already have. Here are some striking examples of how these digital innovators are shaping the frugal economy worldwide: Healthcare.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

They suggest that while the last 30 years have been typified by increasing Asian consumption and integration into the global flow of trade and innovation, the coming decades will see Asian economies driving and determining the direction of these flows, with the region set to account for 50% of global GDP by 2040. Digital dominance.

Marketing 45

Marketing McKinsey Innovation GDP 45

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

The answer to that question has dramatic consequences for low-GDP countries and small businesses everywhere. 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.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Wireless Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

But too often CEOs find themselves stuck in what I call an innovation plateau. They fall into chronic sameness, an inertia driven by a feeling that they must focus on cost, even cheapness, to remain competitive. GDP in the 1970s to 0.78% today. Innovation Strategy: Timing and Scope. Efficiency is not innovation.

Innovation 9

Innovation Market Segmentation GDP Competitive Advantage 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Provide financial security against the costs of ill-health. US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5

Health Care 14

Health Care Innovation GDP Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Historically, multinationals innovated in rich countries and sold those products in poor countries. Reverse innovation is doing exactly the opposite. It is about innovating in poor countries and selling those products in rich countries. Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering.

Education 8

Education Innovation Engineering Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Armed with this perspective, where might management innovation go from here?

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Management Six Sigma 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To To do this, we take the firm’s returns, deduct the cost of capital, and multiply by the firm’s total invested capital.) counties, which account for 90% of GDP in that sector.

Industry 10

Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Despite these impressive achievements, there is still plenty of room for catch up, with China’s per capita GDP only a fifth of the U.S. percentage points of GDP growth in 1979-1989, 0.5

GDP 10

GDP Supply Chain Globalization Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Overall, Graetz and Michaels conclude that the use of robots within manufacturing raised the annual growth of labor productivity and GDP by 0.36 That might not seem like a lot but it represents 10% of total GDP growth in the countries studied and 16% of labor productivity growth over that time period.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

We in the West tend to think of innovation as the next, new, shiny, tech, globally-accepted thing. higher-speed broadband, mobile phones, smart devices), can lead to fresh and surprising thinking about local and regional problems, and one day these over-looked corners of the globe may produce world-class innovations as a result.

Innovation 8

Innovation Govindarajan Globalization Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

In fact, whether cultural diversity carries more economic benefits than costs is still a hotly disputed question among scholars. Moreover, workplace heterogeneity may give rise to coordination problems , as language and cultural barriers increase transaction costs. percentage points. percentage points in developing countries.

Long-term 9

Long-term GDP Diversity Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

High GDP usually goes hand-in-hand with thriving populations. But not in Hong Kong, whose GDP is second only to Singapore among developed Asian nations. In the face of competition for jobs from mainland immigrants and rising food and housing costs, fully two-thirds of workers described themselves as struggling in a recent Gallup poll.

GDP 15

GDP Cooper Participative Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

High GDP usually goes hand-in-hand with thriving populations. But not in Hong Kong, whose GDP is second only to Singapore among developed Asian nations. In the face of competition for jobs from mainland immigrants and rising food and housing costs, fully two-thirds of workers described themselves as struggling in a recent Gallup poll.

GDP 15

GDP Cooper Participative Survey 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. In turn, the company is achieving lower levels of employee and customer churn, and correspondingly lower employee hiring and customer acquisition costs.

Human Capital 13

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It finds that AI could (in aggregate and netting out competition effects and transition costs) deliver an additional $13 trillion to global GDP by 2030, averaging about 1.2% GDP growth a year across the period. The average effect on GDP depends on multiple factors. Why do laggards not jump into AI?

GDP 9

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Perhaps the most basic economic institution is GDP. And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. When GDP's updated to reflect environmental costs, so must be corporate income statements — otherwise, the math simply won't work. That country?

GDP 15

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation. It can improve its competitiveness by reducing costs in its traditional sectors, such as tourism, agriculture, and trade. to 3% of their GDP.

Planning 8

Planning GDP Tourism Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. And just in time, too, because the demand for services is on the rise at the same time that the need to rein in costs is becoming ever more acute. Four Steps for Digitalizing Healthcare. By 2018, as many as 1.7 Internet of Things.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8