The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

It’s an argument that economists such as Robert Gordon believe carries little weight, and the problem is not so much that the various benefits provided by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution cannot be captured, but that the technologies themselves are not utilized enough. The new products, new technology, new startups.

Innovation 125

Innovation Productivity Products Technology 125

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

I’ve always loved the contrast between Moore’s Law – Gordon Moore’s pronouncement that silicon chips’ power would double every 18 months – and Peter Drucker’s much more sober statement about the art of managing people: “We are not going to breed a new race of supermen.

Technology 8

Technology Management Drucker Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

He''s also just written a book, Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. I wrote the book on the conviction that innovation is important for having a healthy economy, for having an economy that will deliver prosperity. There''s nothing about innovation there. Yankee ingenuity?

Open-book 8

Open-book Innovation Policies Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Inside the company, we sometimes refer to this initiative as “The Death of McKinsey,” an identifier not-so-loosely inspired by a blog post from Gordon Ritter and motivated further by a 2013 Clayton Christensen HBR article.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We hope this will serve as a powerful motivator to improve leaders’ decision making and bring sustainable business practices further into the mainstream. The Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation provided partial funding for the research. Brazil’s Beef Industry. Brazil is the world’s biggest beef exporter, with 19.6%

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I realized I was quite good at telling them how to create an organized business and motivating them to make it real, so I decided I wanted to actually use these skills to build a real business for myself. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. As a graduate with a degree in business, at first, I helped students build business plans.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Gordon Brown said during the campaign that Scotland’s fight should not be with London but with globalization. But where the motivation for independence is at least partly economic as opposed to cultural, the economic realities are generally likely to mean devolution short of full independence. Scotland’s economic future is bright.

Consensus 8

Consensus Globalization Politics Policies 8