The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2020

” We have already enshrined in law the global right to health, despite the evident challenges in providing high quality care to the entire world.

Wireless 52

Wireless Library Globalization Information Technology 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

EnableSoft ‘s Foxtrot application is one example of an RPA software that enables organizations to perform internal application integration, risk management, and even data analytics. Drive Innovation. Technology’s impact on society and business is substantial as it has become a part of everyday life. About the Author.

Strategy 50

Strategy Outsourcing Process Technology 50

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2020

While it’s not clear if social media-based intelligence gathering is particularly common in diplomatic or military circles today, it’s an area that the researchers believe is a logical one to expand, and they cite the potential for Chinese officials to gather real-time insights into Taiwanese public opinion as an example.

Media 60

Media Public Relations Analysis Information Technology 60

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Competitive advantage, not information, is power. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology. That meant making the call without all of the information, and not fretting about it, but being glad of it. I know of no better example where experience, intuition, and instinct created power.

Power 100

Power Competitive Advantage Airlines Information 100

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

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Business process management tools, like the Foxtrot RPA technology, are so easy to use that executives easily entrust even non-technical staff to train to perform many, if not most, of the business process operations. A business will not survive in today’s commodity-driven, consumer-demanding economy if they do not continue to innovate.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

Innovation 15

Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 15

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. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION.

Process 11

Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods. The Information Age was exploding. Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. They keep customers happier. They enjoy their work more.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2012

At Nationwide the key success factors have been (1) having senior leadership lead by example; (2) setting governance and policies to ensure security of sensitive comments; and (3) using tools that make collaboration easy and fun. Google's engineering culture is a good example of a management system geared for speed. Process Strategy 2.0

Process 8

Process Examples Strategy Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Recent, well-documented examples include Progressive Insurance''s use of predictive modeling in the property and casualty insurance space and the many industrial manufacturing companies that are generating almost all their margin and profit from after-sale, value-added services based on information generated by embedded sensors.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

For the past several years we have watched with increasing dismay at the increasing chasm between information technology (IT) groups and their business counterparts. The business complains that IT doesn’t understand the business, consistently overpromises and under-delivers, and slows innovation.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Cost Center Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

In its quest for perfection, for example, AT&T acquiesced creating and leading the cellular industry. Innovators should learn that as well… because sometimes, control really is for beginners. Information & technology Innovation' ) negatively impact the brand. Jazz musicians know that.

Information Technology 12

Information Technology Competitive Advantage Storytelling Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Consider, for example, the work that Apple is doing with Epic (an electronic health record provider for hospitals and large medical groups).

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

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. of what George Mason University’s Adam Thierer calls “ permissionless innovation.”

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Stay attuned to new possibilities.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Stay attuned to new possibilities.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

There are two kinds of health-care innovation: more-for-more and more-for-less. is the place to take advantage of the latest innovations such as proton-beam cancer-radiation therapy, for which the equipment and facilities cost about $1 billion. just has not been desperate enough to foster Indian-style health-care innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Disruptive Innovation Travel How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

From a societal view, productivity drives higher living standards and increases shared resources — for example, providing a government with more resources to invest back into its citizens. Technology adoption only improves productivity if it is accompanied by concurrent changes in the way work is done.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Lean Manufacturing Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Shortly after the elimination of Geography here at Harvard, the discipline underwent a quantitative and computational revolution that eventually produced innovations like Google Maps and global positioning systems, to name just two. We were collecting and mapping information long before the printing press.

Core Competence 13

Core Competence Information Technology Library Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. But in a different sense, the health care system is starved for innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit. Will it come?

Health Care 15

Health Care Biotechnology Mayo Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

A recent article in The Economist , citing the work of Ryan Raffaelli at Harvard Business School, points to what it calls a “paradox” in the aftermath of disruptive innovation. We could add our own favorite example: pinball. Etsy’s creators benefit from global markets for sourcing raw materials, for example.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

What exactly are the issues that people have with Europe’s innovativeness? Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Let’s look at innovativeness. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This could include specialized staff, such as nurses and junior doctors trained to research and identify clinical trials and therapy options, as well as technology that can automate the search process much as has been done with legal discovery. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Peer Review Information 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

What happens to innovation and segmentation when serious organizations are challenged to assimilate and integrate 10X, 100X or 1000X more information about customers, clients, prospects and leads? For example, brand managers and advertising agencies alike increasingly make sentiment analysis part of how they assess public perceptions.

Due Diligence 11

Due Diligence KPI Loyalty Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

For example, what kinds of recommendation engines would be of greatest interest and use for both customers and key suppliers? How might Kickstarter-like innovation initiatives facilitate new conversations and collaborations between clients and employees? Information & technology Leadership Social media'

Management 8

Management Supply Chain CIO Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

For example, if your organization wants to run an experiment seeing if certain words, images and memes can influence the social media communications of your best customers, you better make sure that relevant family members, friends and colleagues are similarly exposed and monitored. Ethics Information & technology Innovation'

Ethics 8

Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

New predictive analytics tools promise to reduce waste and improve care by forecasting the likelihood of an event — for example, a patient being readmitted to a hospital or developing a life-threatening infection — and allowing providers to tailor treatments and services accordingly. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Tools Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology. For example, Dr. Bazile began reading GHDonline daily in 2010. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Globalization 9

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. There’s no need for highly-specialized, hospital-based care teams, for example, to waste their time on what is often considered basic community treatment—for which hospitals charge twice or three times as much.

Health Care 8

Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

For example, successfully deploying CRM software on time and to budget will deliver little unless sales, customer services, and fulfillment processes are redesigned, staff trained to have the right conversations with customers, data quality improves, and marketers build the right competencies to use all the data that will now be available to them.

CIO 8

CIO CAPEX Budgeting CRM 8