Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

Health Care 9

Health Care Technology System Library 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

I ask clients to do so without using the words: ‘technology,’ ‘sales,’ and ‘solutions.’ Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. When the Visioning program matures and gets to its second generation, you’ll find that winning formulas stem from a hybrid of the original strategic options.

Mission Statement 81

Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 81

Tim Milburn

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

I believe it’s important – even foundational – as a prerequisite to the effort and energy we use trying to lead others. Interdependence is our mature response to community. But it’s not all about “me.&# The opposite of individualism is community. Independence is our adolescent response to authority.

Maturity 83

Maturity Energy Travel Resources 83

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. link] Allan W. link] Allan W.

Media 382

Media Blog Tools Influence 382

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 27, 2020

New technologies offer many benefits to society, with some of them even promising to lessen our environmental impact. The reality is, however, that many have unintended environmental consequences, especially when a life cycle assessment is performed on the technology. Comparative assessment.

Technology 98

Technology Analysis Maturity Energy 98

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Here's a surprising new fact about energy in the United States: the percentage of our electricity coming from the greenest sources — that is, the non-hydroelectric renewables such as solar, wind, geothermal and biomass — has doubled in just four years to nearly 6 percent. The renewable energy industry is growing very fast.

Energy 8

Energy Apparel Cost Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

for example, a backlog of baby-boomer retirees is expected to turnover upwards of 40 percent of utilities'' 400,000-strong workforce, according to a study by the Task Force on America''s Future Energy Jobs produced by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). There is time, technology, and will to avoid this fate, but the clock is ticking.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. It has seen industries emerge and mature. As the city lives the 21st Century, we celebrate the historical, utilize state-of-the art technology and reflect changing social needs will always be at the forefront of the future.

Entrepreneur 50

Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

New technologies and socioeconomic trends are reshaping the retail marketplace. The IBM Institute for Business Value recently surveyed over 30,000 people in three mature and three growth markets to discover what consumers will want from retailers in the future.

Resources 50

Resources Newsletter Retail Strategic Planning 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They all take advantage of four technologies that once were scarce and expensive but are now plentiful and cheap. These technologies can be combined in numerous ways, and we are just starting to see companies really taking advantage of the possibilities. This cuts down electricity by avoiding vampire energy. Microprocessors.

Technology 15

Technology Wireless Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed. By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. In a driverless world, how could vehicle-to-grid (V2G) help us create new ways to distribute and store energy?

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Chinese companies want access to energy, raw materials, and food that will support growth in their economy and in their customers’ needs—especially at the high end. Technology. Companies in China are also on the lookout for technology that will help them expand. Access to mature global markets.

Company 8

Company Maturity Globalization Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

In his seminal essay, “ Why Software is Eating the World ,” Marc Andreessen pointed out that for each new technology wave, the money eventually shifts to software. To understand what that path to maturity might look like for big data, it’s helpful to look at another, similar transformation. Can we make a similar shift with data?

Maturity 9

Maturity Software Information Technology Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I happen to agree with Romney that A123's demise is yet more evidence that the government should not pick winners and losers among companies — whether those firms are mature auto makers like GM and Chrysler that have lost their way or start-ups in promising new green industries like A123 and Solyndra, the solar-panel manufacturer that failed.

Innovation 14

Innovation Short-term Health Care Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Take the question that has lately been put on the political table because of the prosperity bind facing so many mature economies. Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. .”

Drucker 8

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Daniel Yergin's typically sunny outlook on oil in his recent Wall Street Journal piece, " There Will Be Oil ," suggested that technology and new energy discoveries would avert any of the economic disasters portended by peak oil. They also hide the declining energy density, higher cost, and lower flow rates of these new resources.

Price 9

Price GDP Supply Chain Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2014

Restrictions on the ability of Russian banks to sell financial instruments were imposed, as were bans on selling technology that would help Russia develop its vast energy reserves. An embargo on new arms sales and restrictions on so-called dual-use technologies were imposed.

Banking 8

Banking Short-term Politics Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. The same underlying technologies (e.g., Silicon Valley dominates these platform technologies. The likely trend in global technology entrepreneurship?

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Drucker Software Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Edison’s insight provides a useful frame for viewing Tesla’s splashy launch of Tesla Energy and its battery systems — Powerwall for residential use and Powerpack for commercial, industrial, and utility customers. Tesla’s flashy electric cars are positioned as but one component in the energy system of the future.

Strategy 8

Strategy Levitt Energy System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

As Todd Zenger wrote here earlier this week , many investors want to buy stock in a safer, maturing search advertising business without buying into Google’s riskier moonshots. Malone — also a technology visionary — feels similarly; he’ll bet against the market when he thinks that it is wrong.

Examples 8

Examples Incubator Restructuring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Lafley on my "Innovation Mount Rushmore" as a reminder of the importance of investing time and energy to understand the target market. As Kevin McFarthing noted in a recent blog post , in more mature markets directive questions can provide useful input. But how do you square that with Steve Jobs?" an intrepid audience member asks.

Audience 15

Audience Entrepreneur Maturity Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

To get everyone speaking the same spatial language, we created a Collaboration and Quiet index consisting of seven attributes that can more concretely enable people to match a desired way of working with a physical space: location, enclosure, exposure, technology, temporality, perspective, and size.

Maturity 10

Maturity Real Estate Survey Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Few forces in business are more powerful or do more to shape the dynamics of an industry than the energy, focus, and ability of the great founders of companies. Michael Dell’s desire to make the company again “the largest start-up in history” restored incredible energy at Dell and it is already performing better.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Bureaucracy Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Energy, creativity, and activity are all good things — but they don't create value unless results are achieved. Many of the transactions included in their announcements cannot really be judged successful for several years, or until the loans mature. You either achieve your goals or you don't.

Short-term 14

Short-term Pharmaceuticals Long-term Maturity 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Growing food requires water, seeds, labor, machinery, energy, and fertilizer. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Investing in new technology can reduce excess inventory and handling, and cut down on the amount of perishables that ultimately go to waste. Technology is an important enabler here too.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

Companies fail to get the most out of the $12 billion a year they spend on sales enablement tools and the billions more on CRM technology. And hiring the right candidates also becomes a problem, especially as new buying processes, driven by online technologies, reshape selling tasks.

Execution 8

Execution Cost Telecommunications CRM 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

They may spend two years on developing their product, making sure it’s an absolute technological gem, only to discover that the customers they envisioned aren’t quite as enthusiastic about the product. This is the very essence of being an entrepreneur: Creating one’s own roles while the venture grows and matures.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Uncertainty Learning-by-Doing Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels. It has already sold off Maersk Oil in a deal with Total for $7.5

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

When that need isn’t met, our natural response is to focus energy toward a showdown with the perceived threat. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company. Feeling safe is a primal human need.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Twenty years ago, Louis Gerstner transformed IBM by emphasizing consulting and technology services — not just technology — to solve customer problems. How technology is changing the way we work. Can the elephant dance again? Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World. Sponsored by Accenture.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products. ” In my role at the Canadian telecoms company TELUS , I’ve witnessed first-hand the progress that can be made during a liminal time, both for the enterprise and its leaders. billion to $11.7

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2015

You’ve invested a great deal of time, energy, money, and education in your career. People at this stage have maturity, experience, balance, wisdom — and most importantly — they don’t take work so seriously anymore. This crisis can be a profound one. You’ve established a solid network and credentials.

Career 8

Career Crisis Open-book Advice 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

The premise is that all energy should be focused solely on turning fabulous ideas into hyper growth. The truth is that technology companies can become obsolete quickly–95 percent companies listed on the NASDAQ don’t maintain an independent existence after 20 years.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Team Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. How technology is transforming transactions. As cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and distributed ledgers continue to mature, where might they be applied next?

Finance 8

Finance Supply Chain Decentralization Maturity 8