The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 23, 2022

While the pandemic obviously shone a light on the incredible medical expertise of healthcare workers, it also highlighted the tremendous importance of skills such as supply chain management, strategic planning, and interpersonal communication. These technologies were hugely valuable, but did require a change in mindset from physicians.

Skills 67

Skills Supply Chain Restructuring Training 67

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

As a team, we are focused on driving innovative programs and solutions that attract and grow our associates, and it’s fantastic when it inspires other companies to support their workforce in similar ways. At Walmart, people are at the core of our business. It is exciting what the team has established, including the ability for our U.S.-based

Environment 98

Environment Diversity Leadership Supply Chain 98

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core. As an example, Look at Apple!

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Our work will focus on the potential benefits of better management practices across the NHS, education and local government. CMI has been working with the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education in the development of its EDI strategy and toolkit.

Policies 121

Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Clearly these leaders believe that digitalization offers exciting new, technology-enabled ways for organizations to engage with stakeholders, deliver a superior experience across the life cycle of their business, manage costs, and improve productivity. Digital business also is creating new challenges for information and technology (I&T).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content CIO Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Smoother supply chains. Machine learning enables contextual analysis of logistics data to predict and mitigate supply chain risks. If a person with an engineering degree wishes to run the division someday, what additional education and work experience should they obtain, and in what order?

Process 13

Process Company Supply Chain Software 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

This point was powerfully reinforced when listening to Nadia Shouraboura , former head of Amazon’s Supply Chain and Fulfillment Technologies and founder of Hointer , an innovative “digiphysical” retail startup , at an Intel roundtable on the future of retail experience.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Airlines Retail Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

For instance, in our recent Babson Executive Education sample of 445 companies, more than three-quarters (77%) admit that breaking convention is not their strong suit. However, the firm's core offering in most other markets was supply chain advice. Most aren't that good. Rehabilitate a misfit.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

People across industries and job segments need hyper-specialized skills to thrive in this environment, and both white and blue-collar jobs will need to innovate to remain relevant. Companies are increasingly more concerned about their human capital than about business issues like sourcing, supply chain and location.

Skills 17

Skills Six Sigma Supply Chain Education 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

And that means educators worldwide must revisit how they want to make their most important product — their students — more valuable. Scenario planning is as essential for strategy formulation as it is for the design of next generation technologies and industries. Cooking Science & Technology. Everybody eats.

Class 9

Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

As in other developing countries, telephone service and banking were regarded in Kenya as products for the rich, but the emergence of mobile phones and online banking, and the innovative idea of combining them, has brought these services to the Kenyan masses at ultra-low prices. million students and a market capitalization of $11 billion.

Marketing 8

Marketing Supply Chain Banking Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. How might Kickstarter-like innovation initiatives facilitate new conversations and collaborations between clients and employees?

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. This turmoil led to huge operational shifts in the financial services sector, where there’s more focus than ever on consumer education, industry information sharing, and stronger forms of authentication, among other things. Protect supply chains. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. According to Jason Tyszko , Vice President, Center for Education and Workforce at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Diversity 111

Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This approach is nowhere near enough to tackle the pressing problems we all face — water scarcity, low quality education systems, an aging population in some parts of the world, a rapidly growing one in others, and so on. If you're a healthcare technology provider like GE, you're worried about the healthcare sector at home and abroad.

Porter 14

Porter Supply Chain Energy Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. With all the buzz around disruptive innovation as a driver of business success in recent years, it’s important not to forget this original meaning.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Real Estate Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Although the workforce has doubled since 1970 , unemployment remains fairly low , especially among those that have more than a high school level of education. How can we use technology to extend the skills of humans in ways that aren’t immediately clear, but will seem obvious a decade from now? Innovate Business Models.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain How To Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

Consider the core mission of the modern IT department: Taking in all the technology “mess” (often from several different divisions), developing the necessary competencies, and delivering savings and efficiency to the company. Enter data and analytics, which provide an opportunity for such innovation.

Operations 8

Operations Agility Chemicals Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game. Suppliers play far more than a supplementary role in our supply chain. This philosophy has started to take its toll.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

billion people has always called out to me as a problem needing new and innovative solutions. We need to think big and deploy disruptive technologies and financing mechanisms to house 100 million people by the end of the decade.". Piggy back on top of existing supply chains to reach the base of the pyramid.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

As I''ve written in my previous two blog posts, our first inclination is usually to play down the potential impact of a new technology. At a minimum, this Apple TV could change education, hospitality, work, and travel. Let''s say the Apple innovation merely takes $50 billion out of the industry. So let''s behold them.

Disintermediation 8

Disintermediation Hotels Airlines Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

sacrificing their youth and education to become surrogate mothers and bear the unintended responsibility of parenthood. Pursue scientific innovation. The conversations underscored that technologies that save women in more developed countries are totally impractical in places without refrigeration or electricity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Health Care Self-aware Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. Multinationals' shares of employment, capital investment, and output in the U.S. manufacturing employment by 52.5%, or 3.3

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

How many companies have figured out how to shift from supply chain management to integrating customer feedback directly into their product design, distribution, and delivery? That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom. Because that's the point.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

And then there''s politics: every politician wants to champion the "innovation" and growth aspects of the Internet, and there''s little to gain from highlighting what a dangerous place it really can be. A major national effort to educate the public and market a new "culture of security" for Internet behavior.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. That's right. Contestification.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

In what now seems a distant past, company research facilities like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs fueled innovation and growth for dominant American manufacturing firms. As the pace of technological change has quickened and the costs of R&D have grown, that model has ceased to work.

Innovation 14

Innovation Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In your testimony to Congress on May 21, 2013, when you explained Apple’s tax practices, you said: “You can tell the story of Apple’s success in just one word: innovation.” I agree and ask you to consider what public shareholders and stock buybacks have to do with innovation at Apple. Employee education. Social innovation.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm. The technology systems that undergird this effort are far-flung. infrastructure.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Politics Franchising 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. ” As educational researchers have found, it is perhaps the single best way to teach new concepts. This is a subtle, but important nuance.

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Through a concerted focus on our supply chain, we use rigorous value-based purchasing protocols, market intelligence, and business analytics to examine every purchase from the standpoint of value, utility, and outcomes. A key part of the cost solution is to educate all caregivers, including doctors, about what items cost.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Hence China's innovation dilemma. The very same publications that soft-pedal the Net's role in challenging the social status quo openly discuss its importance in challenging the rigidities of China's educational system. Open courseware initiatives fascinate China's educational establishment and its entrepreneurs alike.

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Politics CRM 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

They do cost real money and can slow innovation. Or that it can thrive without a healthy, educated population, with access to safe food and drugs. Logistics giants like FedEx and UPS spend literally billions of dollars on fuel, so they care deeply about using new technologies and improving fleet efficiency.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Supply Chain Short-term Transportation 8