The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The analysis revealed that around 75% of firms had introduced some form of productivity-boosting technology during the pandemic. The study also revealed innovations in non-technical fields, such as the introduction of new management practices and business models. Early adoption. Return on investment.

Early Adopters 117

Early Adopters Short-term Technology Innovation 117

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

And certain production environments provide richer data due to the processes they use.”. The results were then cross-referenced with data, including production inputs and outputs for the firm. The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. Strong returns.

Early Adopters 75

Early Adopters Sample Deming Objective 75

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As individuals, we take our cues from the early adopters and we learn what to do – and what not to do. Yes, certainly, there are more than a handful of organizations that manage not only to change, but to set the pace for everyone else. You structure this network of innovation deliberately to Leave. It changed.

Organization 236

Organization Kotter Real Estate Early Adopters 236

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The tipping point in all the organizations I work with who are serious about gender balance is when it becomes a leadership and management priority and is part of leaders’ own performance evaluations and accountability. The best ones are upskilling their leaders and managers to manage flexible and virtual teams. This isn’t new.

Diversity 52

Diversity Globalization Presenteeism CEO 52

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Lead on Purpose

JULY 29, 2009

However, five weeks ago I purchased an iPhone 3GS (granted, I’m not an early adopter) and the experience has been phenomenal. In only a few short weeks I have come to depend on its functionality for my work in product management and product marketing. The iPhone platform is the best for mobile applications.

Early Adopters 154

Early Adopters Productivity Products Marketing 154

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

I’ve written previously about the power of flexible working to engage and excite workers, with research also showing that flexible workers are often more productive, due in large part to being sick less often, working longer hours and generally being happier at work. Flexible part-time work.

Career 67

Career Early Adopters Policies Proposal 67

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 9, 2020

“In this report on the role of governments in adapting to the Future of Work, we describe the potential benefits of a technological disruption, discuss active management of the workforce transitions to avoid creating a lose–lose (or win–lose) scenario, and provide a. Supporting and enabling technology adoption.

McKinsey 88

McKinsey Technology Early Adopters Policies 88

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2019

There is an acute understanding among millennials that in many of the free platforms and services they consume on a daily basis, they themselves are the product that the companies sell to advertisers. Indeed, this age group were increasingly using technology to manage their social life and improve their wellbeing. Smart homes.

Early Adopters 59

Early Adopters Technology Advertising Resistance 59

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

But how do you build a successful platform if you only have products? In our recent HBR article , we explain the fundamentals of transforming products into platforms. What are the “best practices” of building platforms from products? Leveraging early adopters to accelerate platform adoption.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Marketing Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Companies born before the internet took hold have an enormous challenge: improving their online products and services at the warp speed of their online competitors. Companies that are able to master continuous online product innovation have big advantages: Dramatic reductions in the time it takes to make critical product enhancements.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Software Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Paul, MN, headquarters of the perennial innovation leader, 3M. During my daylong visit, I observed a quiet, longtime sustainability leader plugging away, creating new products that will help the world save energy, water, waste.and lots of money. our new vision" of growth and innovation.

Innovation 12

Innovation Early Adopters Energy Efficiency 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Research shows we’re not as good as we think at recognizing the value of innovative thinking. In fact, managers might even be a bit worse. In an experiment by Jennifer Mueller, managers were more likely to reject the very same ideas that got customers excited. Fortunately, there is some research that can help.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Film Reference Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners. Embracing Digital Change Requires a Clear Strategic Focus.

Technology 8

Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. Innovation Strategy Technology'

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. In the middle office, risk and compliance management will largely watch bots that are not prone to human error or fraud, supported by sophisticated models to predict quality and compliance issues.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

When entrepreneurs, innovators, and executives describe the kind of leaders they want to be and/or hire, an unhappy truth invariably emerges: The attributes they so admire often aren’t the behaviors they display. How talent management is changing. Growing effective leaders is challenging work. Insight Center.

Examples 13

Examples Charisma Self-aware Mission Statement 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

In 1994, the dominant global provider of mobile handsets was Motorola: its shares were trading at an all-time high and it was seen as an outstanding innovator and even described by a senior consultant at A. Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

The White House recently formed the Office of American Innovation, which has a stated focus on “implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation.” presidential innovation fellow and a cofounder of 18F , a digital services office within the U.S.

Advice 11

Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Executives can change strategy, products and processes until they're blue in the face, but real change doesn't take hold until people actually change what they do. Embracing a new behavior typically follows a diffusion curve — early adopters, safe followers, late-comers. Because managers use only a few of these levers.

Early Adopters 18

Early Adopters Incentives Follow-up Comparison 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? If an industrial product like a car fails the manufacturer pulls it back, tests it and, if necessary, re-equips it. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals. David Aubrey/Getty Images.

TBL 11

TBL Bottom-up Long-term Early Adopters 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Most decisions in organizations are made by escalating them up the management hierarchy — and it’s usually the highest paid person in the room’s opinion (“HIPPO”) that prevails. Consider these three examples from the frontiers of management: Funding decisions at most organizations are made by senior management or maybe an independent panel.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2011

A few are entrepreneurial start-ups desperate for closer ties with their early adopter clientele. Without exception, these companies want to be seen as innovative and customer-centric in equal measure. Are they there primarily to learn more about the host's innovation roadmap and strategic aspirations?

Software 14

Software Critical Success Factor Early Adopters B2B 14

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. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. By November 2010, we launched the 1M/1M website, including an early version of the premium program. This is where numerous ventures fail.

Entrepreneur 54

Entrepreneur Stage-Gate Finance Incubator 54

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2012

Many successful innovations work because they create a new market. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne of INSEAD have written a whole book about Blue Ocean Strategy as they call it, in which successful companies innovate their value propositions to attract customers who have never engaged with their type of product or service before.

Marketing 8

Marketing Blue Ocean Strategy Mauborgne Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. In short, employers disconnect from managing one of the most important and costly expenditures for their organizations.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. Early adopters in these verticals are using the IoT to pioneer new product areas and to find efficiencies that save money or reduce demand for resources.

Early Adopters 12

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

But this was the first time attending the event where so many of the top-tier athletic luminaries—particularly coaches and managers—spoke so wistfully and ambitiously about the analytic alchemy that can turn teammates into champions. have become early adopters and innovators in multidimensional measurements for individuals and teams alike.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

Those early adopters of technology – let’s call them entrepreneurs, or maybe even founders – helped drive overall economic vitality. The authors hypothesize that these early adopters used their newly acquired knowledge to build technologically based businesses that drove regional prosperity.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Early Adopters Education Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2017

There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. Ash Gupta is President of Global Credit Risk and Information Management at American Express, and Guy Peri is Chief Data Officer and Vice President of Information Technology at P&G.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Technology System Early Adopters 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

By providing instant and continuous recognition of positive behavior, typically via a public social platform, they yield more and richer data on employees, offering managers a clearer picture of a team or company’s strengths and weaknesses and everyone a better sense of how they’re performing. Empower managers to track results.

Peer Review 8

Peer Review Review System Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Spurred on by digital-native competitors, the retail sector has captured about 30% to 40% of the margin improvements and productivity growth we identified in 2011. It takes time to execute these types of organizational changes—and the pace is wholly dependent on the actions taken by management.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Strategic stress is characterized by three zones, which executives must consider and effectively manage: Strategic Burnout (too much strategic stress). The sweet spot can be reached if there is a balance among the four project-manager types: executors, experts, gamblers, and prophets.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategic Planning Stress Hamel 8