The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

As Michael Hammer famously warned back in 1990, it’s no use applying new technologies to old processes, so in order to get the most out of AI and automation, jobs are having to be redesigned so that man and machine can work well together. Redesigning the business.

Supply Chain 77

Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 77

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Understanding this framework provides enterprises with an opportunity to revisit past failures, compare them to today's realities, and more quickly and efficiently leverage past "failed" concepts. Within just a few weeks, we had triaged those ideas using current information to identify three major new global platforms for development.

Innovation 15

Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

In just the past few years, there has been a global boom in the wind and solar industries, with wind power's generating capacity expanding dramatically and companies competing to offer free solar panels to households. American companies have had to slash their margins to compete, and their share prices have been hammered as a consequence.

Energy 11

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. Platforms are all the rage these days.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. So what is holding these engineers back?

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. What's more, the company helped develop Hammer's PEMM concept and is now training Lean managers.

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Efficiency: changes over time in the ratio of innovation outputs to inputs. Over the past couple of decades, virtually every company has comprehensively over­hauled its operating model for efficiency and speed.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8