The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 9, 2021

As AI has become more potent, there have been understandable concerns about how the technology can be policed so that it works for the benefit of all society rather than certain sections of it. A new paper from Lancaster University explores how AI can be effectively policed, and indeed who should do the policing.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Boston , MA Innovative entrepreneurs will find fertile ground for their ideas in Boston. New York , NY With the financial sector reeling, New York is counting on technological innovation to save the day.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Using “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building, this week we’ll discuss steps three and four: developing brand identification and meaning, and developing relationships with customers. Much of developing the loyalty factor comes from inside your business. Are you ready?? What would you think then?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 14, 2010

What are some innovative ways you can target and reach your potential advocates? Categories : Success Stories , business development 1 Comments 1 Alicia December 15th, 2010 at 8:37 am This story brought tears to my eyes, but overall brought a smile to my face. Book sales have contributed more than $600,000 to these charities.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 21, 2011

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

In this TED video , Sinek explains what he believes to be the reason for Apple’s constant innovations and their repeated successes. Categories : Communications , Marketing , business development 2 Comments 1 Tweets that mention People Do Business With You…But Why? :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 12th, 2011 at 1:23 am [.]

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

McKinsey Insights ’ Pankaj Ghemawat references a survey of senior executives where 76% of them feel they need to develop global-leadership capabilities, but only 7% of feel they are doing so effectively. For instance, your customer satisfaction surveys could reveal that your customers buy X only so that they can avail a discount on Y.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

The solution is machine learning —computers automatically discovering patterns and developing new knowledge by furiously feeding on modern society's greatest and most potent unnatural resource : data. Student essay grade prediction has been developed for automatic grading. Data can seem like such dry, uninteresting stuff.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Once the product-development stage concludes, a fancy marketing campaign is used to glamorize the team’s hard work, labor, and perseverance, ready to compete against other products of the same league. In the era of technology, it is pivotal to create a social media presence to reach out and circulate the message to the masses.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

a company that partners with leaders to help them develop the most critical skill in business – relationship building. Tanya energizes leaders to help them light the spark in their teams that results in: the proliferation of ideas and innovation,shorter cycle times, more collaborative environments, and high customer and employee loyalty.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. On reflection, though, I find that the evidence does not support competitive advantage as a path to longevity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. For good reason, the $30-billion company has long been held up as a role model of how to manage innovation. our new vision" of growth and innovation. But most importantly, I heard about some great new products and technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders. To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We use this simple framework to determine the success of an innovative effort. In other words, successful innovation requires motive, means, and opportunity. Innovation efforts fail anytime they fail to deliver on all three of these domains strongly enough.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2016

” will be difficult for many companies to achieve — not for lack of technological expertise but because they’ll fail to recognize the value of design in connected product development. applications pushed technology to address B2B market requirements. This evolution to “Internet of Things (IoT) 2.0”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2011

Through that initiative, consumers who join and pay a fee will receive nutritional education, membership in a dining club, and discounts on foods that meet certain dietary criteria. decrease in R&D spending: some auto companies slashed innovation budgets by as much as 32 percent. compared to the 14.3% Wireless carriers in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Research by Hal Gregersen and Jeffrey Dyer in fact shows that questioning is one of the behaviors that successful innovators share. So I’ll pose a question now: What questions should corporate innovators use to increase their odds of success? It is the innovator’s job. What problem is the customer struggling to solve?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

There are three important things I will take away from this year: The West is overly discounting Asia's growth potential. I argued a few months ago that the innovation axis was shifting from the West to the East. Innovation has never been more accessible. We're on the verge of a golden age of innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When I urge managers in a company to make open innovation part of their innovation strategy, they get it conceptually. Every year, FVA conducts an industry-wide technology search to identify new and emerging solutions, and it shares the results as a service to its member companies.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 12, 2009

In many cases, these great products have developed into product lines, companies and even industries. Ideas need development to become strategies. The development of ideas is not an easy undertaking. In fact, most of the great ideas took a long time and a lot of hard work to develop into the useful products they are today.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. We can leverage each other’s expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The intrinsic value of a company with growing cash flows doubles every time the discount rate is cut in half. The lower the discount rate, the more that future cash is worth.) So, value grows exponentially as the discount rate approaches zero. Investing in true innovation. Consider some simple math.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. They are using digital technologies to increase their own efficiency and to improve the customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

Sponsored by DXC Technology. Either way, consumers need a reason to tune in, and mass-offered discount coupons are increasingly insufficient. At Procter & Gamble, for instance, technology says it’s time to remind parents about Pampers, while analytics says that direct marketing is the best way to do it. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. To make customers measurably happier, optimization mattered less than innovation. Their optimization strengths had become innovation weakness. But customers can now consider incentives – discounts, promotions, special plans, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. Second, factoring in cost makes online technology much more competitive.And But the average discount on full-time MBA tuition at high-ranking private U.S. But I dont have to.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The time changed, markets evolved, competition became even harsh, and marketplaces required more innovative ways to make money than the mere commissions. There are some pitfalls too that require strategic resolutions: It’s all technology : The core that drives an online marketplace business is pure technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Last year, it purchased Jet.com and installed Jet’s founder, Marc Lore, as head of its e-commerce division.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

Tech start-up Haystack has developed an innovative – and controversial — solution to the stressful challenge of finding an open parking meter in congested areas. Technology allows Uber to strategically flex prices and just as importantly, inform its customers of the current price. To secure this meter (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

If your customer retention strategy relies on “buying” loyalty with rewards, rebates, or discounts, it is coming at a high cost. a high-minded customer for an organic supermarket or a value-conscious customer for a discount chain). Topic Images Inc./Getty Getty Images. Don’t be loyal to the status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. They are using digital technologies to increase their own efficiency and to improve the customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. Business students are taught to value a company based on the discounted amounts of future cash flows or earnings.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Disruptive innovation Innovation' Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased , please stop reading.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2011

It identifies your company’s red flags, and provides a powerful and innovative methodology to transition from failure to flourish. Jobs was determined to bring the technology to market and anyone who stood in his way would not have a place at Apple. Rudderless Leadership. What do I mean by this? Absolutely not.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

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