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. Hype run wild. Instead, markets have become stodgy and increasingly immune to competition.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

” Technology is a major driving of change and is changing very unpredictably as we see in these forecasts: Lee DeForest, the “father of radio,” said in 1926 “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.”

Project 67

Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

As I reported here previously , there is very credible evidence that a narcissistic leader will take a company on a wild ride that won’t result in any better or worse performance. high technology). We regularly share information and costs across business activities. percent in return on assets (ROA), 5.01

CEO 118

CEO P&L Company Venture Capitalist 118

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover. Our Freedom.

Brand 365

Brand Brand Management Blog Media 365

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 16, 2010

 Cliff has a great piece of employee motivation advice that won't cost you a dime - in fact it might even save you money you would have likely spent in vain.  Cliff has a great piece of employee motivation advice that won't cost you a dime - in fact it might even save you money you would have likely spent in vain.

Blog 100

Blog Human Resources Talent Management Godin 100

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

While a focus group can't fully represent how your idea will do in the wild, it will at least give you an idea of how it could be received by the public. This makes digital marketing a great candidate for those of you interested in running a business with a low overhead cost.

Tips 95

Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But, among other things, the costs for acquisition and shipping were too high, so it was ruled out. That is until they learned about an emerging technology—DVDs. After a slew of ideas like customized shampoo, dog food, and baseball bats, Randolph hit upon renting VHS tapes online. Then the game was on. I never intended to get there.

Learning-by-Doing 43

Learning-by-Doing Entrepreneur Wilde CEO 43

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

. “Moonshots” is the term favored by the company’s exploratory arm, known as X, which states on its website : “Our mission is to invent and launch ‘moonshot’ technologies that we hope could someday make the world a radically better place.” In fact, it was done mostly with common sense and grit.

Wilde 14

Wilde Armstrong Project Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. Other managers might take notice and started building their own databases. How do we change this?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Journalist Justin Gillis wrote about the risk of “severe economic disruption” and “wildly expensive” solutions — ones that may not even exist — if we don’t leverage existing technologies to shift the global economy away from carbon over the next 15 years. Talk of potential risk to humanity is not new. coal market.

Discounted Cash Flow 10

Discounted Cash Flow NGO Conference Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Either accept it (and its higher costs and lower profits) or take control of your fate with strategic, game-changing actions that cut time and costs from the supply chain. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. These are just the first-order costs of congestion. A looming crisis. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.

Technology 8

Technology Content Information Technology Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

First, as analytics guru Tom Davenport notes (his is the first in this month-long series of expert-written posts), there is the wild proliferation of customer intelligence technologies — and the challenge of choosing the ones that will pay off best for a given business.

Stephenson 10

Stephenson Customer Loyalty Wilde Loyalty 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. ” That statement seems surprising coming from the CEO of a technology company employing over 70,000 people in more than forty offices around the world. percent to 7.5

Company 8

Company Stress Participative Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Google’s strategy to date has been to build great consumer software, then extend these popular applications to enterprises with additional features, often at a fraction of the cost of competitors. With Google X the company is attempting to put its mark on the very process of technological innovation. But ultimately Google is Google.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S., The idea of protecting U.S.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

While competitors like Compaq and IBM sold PCs through retailers, distributors, and resellers, Dell sold directly to its customers, offering highly customized PCs at a time when the cost of computers was high enough to still require significant tradeoffs. Yet the improved financial position came at a cost. The Case of IBM.

Rivkin 15

Rivkin Succession Short-term Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

But one thing is certain: faced at the onset with internal pressure to drive cost out of production, it was far less likely that Gerber could truly innovate. Then, when your team goes to scale up their business, you realize that they hadn't considered the cost of buying new widgets at market rates. We can't know for sure.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. If people are still comfortable, you’ve saved your firm some heating costs. The Comfort of Crowds Are Smartphone Users the Missing Link in Building Efficiency?

Engineering 8

Engineering Welch Media Wilde 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

. “Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. The idea is to put the “user” at the center of the experience — an approach that works with meeting design, too.

Planning 8

Planning Participative Wilde Film 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Those cultures quickly and cost-effectively turn predictive failures into analytic successes. Decision making Failure Information & technology' This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion. The forensics took weeks; the data were fine. Beware Big Data’s Easy Answers.

Hotels 10

Hotels Yield Management Discount Price 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Confirmation and other behavioral biases, along with the “sunk cost” fallacy, often encourage people to see predictability where there is none, especially if there was some before. Decision making Information & technology' Q5: Is the model still relevant?

Credit Scoring 10

Credit Scoring Price Market Segmentation How To 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

By helping business leaders to improve their businesses, the CIO becomes an obvious candidate to fill any open role that involves technology, process, or strong governance. Other companies have multiple employee collaboration platforms with different rules and technologies. Are IT costs and agility what you want them to be?

CIO 8

CIO Technology Apparel Information Technology 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

A basic tip provided by start-up technicians, expert technology specialists, self-help experts, and network experts on how to start an online business is: “Be Effective.”. Our company is not just a web development agency; we are the technology partners of several start-ups. Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz

B2B 65

B2B Development Wilde Project 65

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

An outsourced idea and creative team that could get the production done at a cost that was less than what it would cost the brand to have a permanent staff in place. The world — because of technology and connectedness — is forcing marketing agencies back to the entire sphere that encompasses marketing.

Marketing 9

Marketing Brand Advertorial Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

Technology was part of the problem. The more charcoal the blast furnaces consumed, the further Hasenclever’s timber cutters needed to range for trees, driving up costs. Ore, pigs, and bars all were transported one wagonload at a time, with no cost saving as volume increased. Innovation Technology'

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

One presumes that Facebook's executives are smart enough to know that the most sustainable, cost-effective way to strike that balance is to provide the tools for self-organization. For some it is a wild place on the edge of discovery and the frontier of personality. Therein lies the charm and titillation. For instance, to Africa!

IPO 12

IPO PR Brand Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

I have a clock in my office that synchronizes itself at 1:00 am every day using a signal sent out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Fort Collins, Colorado, which has an advertised precision in the fraction-of-a-second range. It should be trustworthy, right? Not so — it can be wildly inaccurate.

Advertising 8

Advertising Collins Wilde Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

In an effort to move from the Wild West world of shoot-from-the-hip decision making to a more evidence-based model, companies realized that they would need data. Sales, manufacturing, shipping, costs and whatever else could be captured were all tracked and turned into well-controlled (or not so well-controlled) data.

Comparison 8

Comparison Analysis Information Technology Franchising 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage. Such involvement can lead to greater visibility. Start small and build up. Practice frugality.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Some big names went even further than this nudging and took direct action to lower their carbon emissions and costs by buying large amounts of renewable energy. This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. But it does perhaps make diesel less compelling as a clean transportation technology.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Can you improve profits by streamlining costs?

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The most successful entrepreneurship is disruptive — a term entrepreneurs these days have donned as a magic mantle: “We have a disruptive business model, a disruptive technology, and will disrupt the market” goes the startup pitch.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The Wild West that was the web back in the nineties would be equally wild for advertising. For example, The Atlantic also ran an editorial piece titled " Where Design Meets Technology " that was sponsored by Porsche. The charm of traditional advertising was in cost and efficacy.

Advertising 8

Advertising Definition Advertorial Media 8