The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The problem is, these technologies don’t appear to be making a difference to productivity figures, or subsequently the wages and wellbeing of people. It’s a refrain with a strong heritage, with Robert Solow famously remarking that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics” back in 1987.

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Innovation Productivity Products Technology 102

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

If you want your customers to care about product quality, give them a choice. Especially in situations where consumers typically refine their preferences at the point of purchase, we can expect that choice engages interest in innovation and quality differences.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Retail Price 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. Hammer's thinking was very powerful, but I'd challenge that last point.

Process 12

Process Innovation Hammer Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As a practitioner of a design-led form of product development, and in my own research and writing about an empathetic approach to product design, I’m overtly critical of the Lean manifesto. The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. Simpson quickly shifted her focus away from the hard candies line and launched new gummy products using existing excess capacity in a plant. Small brands are important here for a few reasons.

Brand 10

Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Today, companies usually envision singular product offerings for the Internet of Things, resulting in store shelves with things that do not connect very well to other things once the consumer gets them home. Each product functions perfectly well on its own, but doesn’t connect to other things in ways we might expect.

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Hammer Fashion Sample Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Gordon Mass Marketing 9

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Retraining requires extra time they often don’t have,m and it can grind productivity to a halt. Innovative Appearance. If you take advantage of the broad range of new technologies on offer, you can demonstrate to customers and investors that you are an innovative business that looks towards the future.

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Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge. Innovation Technology'

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. As a result, Belvedere’s greenhouse gas emissions have dropped by 40%.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

They hope AI can improve productivity, automate existing process, provide predictive analysis, and extract meaning from massive data sets. For them, AI is a competitive advantage, but not part of their core product. The very nature of the role aims at bringing the hammer of AI to the nails of whatever problems are lying around.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

These are the products and infrastructure elements such as solar panels and smart electricity grids that are reducing our reliance on petroleum and coal. This healthy, innovative sector holds out vast promise, but missteps now could cost the United States its lead. could lose its edge quickly, both in innovation and deployment.

Energy 11

Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. ” You may know the sage souls who offer quiet, invisible productivity to your organization. rawpixel/unsplash. Recognize your “wisdom workers.”

Wiseman 10

Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

But I think the interesting part comes when they start to see it as an opportunity for innovations that are financially beneficial as well as socially beneficial. When we asked them about why they care about sustainability, they did mention the business case we’ve all been hammering home for years — and they do believe it.

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Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. In transition periods, during big technological shifts or the ends of recessions, companies often turn their aspirations to growth through innovation. As the U.S.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization.

Brand 8

Brand Banking Strategy Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

These are the kinds of innovations being implemented in the Netherlands, which has moved beyond a dams-and-dikes mentality to embrace the country''s relationship with water, because in Holland, water is everywhere and rising all the time. The company hopes that these employees will then be able to make automated processes more productive. "We

Automotive 8

Automotive Hammer Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. If there are continual changes in a company's markets or strategy, that company will most likely need to make productivity improvements part of everyone's job. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The businesses most at risk from platforms powered by rapidly improving online technologies aren’t, in fact, traditional businesses that sell products and services to consumers. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. But we think these conclusions are overwrought — and miss what’s really going on.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? They create resentment among employees who are giving it their all, and they drag down productivity. MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’ There can be no reward without risk.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

When Uber entered the Chinese market, it soon learned it had to change its core product. Yet even after making its core product more attractive to Chinese customers, Uber had to spend hugely to attract drivers and riders. There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.”

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Heifetz agrees: “The hiring manager is the buyer, you’re the product, and you need to give him a reason to buy.” ” Here’s how to write a resume that will be sure to win attention. Further Reading. How to Write a Cover Letter.

How To 15

How To Career Sample Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Abigail Noble: The other thing that we’re seeing is from the customer side — that they want things that have social impact and environmental responsibility and products that serve those needs. Whether it’s Warby Parker eyeglasses or Method home products or any one of a variety of other consumer products.

Insurance 9

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 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

JANUARY 20, 2017

To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. A study of cross-functional product teams revealed that when leaders treated members of their team well and fairly, the team members were more productive individually and as a team. You and Your Team Series. Collaboration. Amy Jen Su. Kevin Kniffin.

Cooper 8

Cooper Hammer Training Film 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Process gurus such as Michael Hammer , Jim Champy , Geary Rummler , and Alan Brache have long maintained that companies must appoint process owners to ensure that processes are improved across functions. Air Products, Nokia, and Shell, among others, followed this advice and created top-level process owners. And they succeeded wildly.

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Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15