The Horizons Tracker

JULY 29, 2019

The firms have traditionally operated in decidedly unglamorous fields, whose markets have seemed unduly narrow, but by ascending to global dominance of those fields, the companies have been tremendously successful. It does this by comparing the kind of data available to train AI algorithms in both the United States and China.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Last year’s report revealed that European countries led the way in the development of skills, with the companies in the United States appearing to focus their energy more on recruiting the talent they need rather than developing it. The outbreak of Covid-19 has changed most things, so is the same true of the skills landscape?

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2020

Research from the University of Houston highlights similar reticence in the energy sector, with 70% of workers stating that they would prefer to continue working remotely. Nowhere have such concerns been so vividly expressed as in the education sector, where teachers have widely opposed a return to business as usual over fears around safety.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. But solar electricity is only the beginning of the future energy marketplace.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. I wasn’t a software engineer, and I was tempted to leave agile methods to the geeks.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

When a CEO announces a major initiative to foster innovation, mark your calendar. In most cases we’ve studied at Innovation Leader, an online resource for people responsible for innovation and R&D, there’s a surplus of good ideas for new products, services and business models. So how to improve?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

New research , funded by the Tony Elumelu Foundation and conducted by my team at the African Institution of Technology , shows that within Africa, innovation is accelerating and the continent is finding better ways of solving local problems, even as it attracts top technology global brands.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

"We're looking for new models of innovation. Comstock was telling me about the company's growing innovation platform, the GE Ecomagination Challenge which inspires collaboration between GE and entrepreneurs. The Ecomagination Challenge, now in its second year, is GE's foray in to the fast-growing world of "open" innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal. housing sector.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

To stay competitive, organizations need to continually find opportunities for innovation in key processes such as customer service and product development, and adoption of a new process almost always requires the implementation of new information technology. Unfortunately, this creates two problems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. in close partnership with the University of Warwick. and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Unfortunately, when companies launch innovation initiatives, they tend to devote most of their time, energy and attention to that initial 1% – the thrilling hunt for the breakthrough idea. The real innovation challenge , however, lies beyond the idea, in a long, hard journey from idea to impact. Think Different. Opportunities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2017

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. Amanda Cameron of Patriot Software, LLC knows that being the boss isn’t easy. Business leaders need to know how to handle conflict in the workplace to keep operations running smoothly. Confrontation and Splinters Follow Wally.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. True victory lies in capturing the imagination, respect and energy of a broad and diverse set of stakeholders, including suppliers, customers and executives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The costly and complex operations of transporting energy have made utilities natural monopolies, while regulatory barriers and the high fixed costs of building and maintaining regional electrical grid infrastructure have also kept much competition at bay. This story of disruption should feel familiar.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

The second installment moves Tesla beyond the traditional car market, with a plan to reconfigure our cities, energy systems, and our impact on the environment. Instead, it looked as though Tesla’s innovation was to redesign the car in a way that fundamentally meshed software and hardware.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. You need to think like a portfolio manager, allocating resources both to innovate in your core and for the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

In a similar way, industrial companies that combine the digital and the physical open entirely new dimensions in the way they operate and in the value they can provide to customers and shareholders. Both fields require complex and sophisticated domain expertise, and are experiencing fast-paced innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

In the United States, buildings consume 41 percent of the nation’s total energy use, through lighting, heating, air conditioning, elevators, and the thousands of items plugged into their sockets. However, we cannot take the resource-intensive path of simply building our way to a more energy-efficient future.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Embrace renewable energy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

What I’m referring to is the migration of functionality from hardware to software. In more and more businesses, physical objects are no longer the primary basis for innovation and differentiation. They come second to innovations in computer code. That would be really hard to do with analog controls, but with software?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates: an internal fee on carbon. The money collected will go to purchase Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) and carbon offsets , allowing Microsoft to declare itself carbon neutral. Accountability throughout the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

It does not include traditional IT firms that rely on sales of hardware or software as their main source of revenue.). ineffective innovation strategies. failure to fully embed operations in China. 5 Principles for Innovation in Emerging Markets. Uber sold its operation to Didi Chuxing. Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Before long, we’ll stop referring to the underlying technologies involved — including lasers, radar, cameras, embedded sensors, and advanced machine learning software — in terms of what they’re replacing. All of these are heavily regulated, often by federal, state, and local agencies. traffic deaths.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. a 525-employee software company, began applying agile methodologies in 2005. This takes time. Systematic Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

True collaboration always has open-ended elements — ranging from precisely how new innovations will be implemented, to how products will fare in the market, and even to what priorities partners will pursue in the face of changes in the environment. Sun's own experience is a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. The platform brings wind, solar and other renewable energy producers — even individual homes equipped with solar panels — into the same ecosystem.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In an era of physical innovation, people understood instinctively how things worked, even if they weren't familiar with the underlying theories of physics. For example, if engineers don't possess the know-how needed to limit the material and energy cost of setting up and operating cloud services, IT can't scale as it needs to.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2% for laggards.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Sustainable innovation — and the resilient processes supporting it — require creative ways of getting rid of the computational crap and digital detritus that inevitably occur when organizations try to keep going and growing fast. Her software not only automated the process, it invited greater innovation.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. Carl had a Ph.D.

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