The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 19, 2022

Working on the business model is a fundamental part of pretty much every “lean startup” program, which makes it a fundamental part of pretty much every accelerator and incubator. Research from INSEAD reminds us, however, that simply having a good business plan is not sufficient to make a startup a success.

Business Model 115

Business Model Entrepreneur Organization Agility 115

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Instead of signing a lease in an upscale neighbourhood, prefer renting in a cheaper area or use a business incubator. In some places, universities and other organizations offer low-rent spaces designed for new business ventures, especially when accompanied by innovative scientific ideas. Organize your system on the web.

Venture Capitalist 107

Venture Capitalist Budgeting Finance Advertising 107

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2012

Fast-casual food generally takes longer to prepare, so perhaps it could be a phone-in the order 1st, pick-up at the booth system. Incubation’ is more than just ‘sleeping on it’. A = Adapt – How about adapting the successful drive-through services that the fast food companies offer to the fast-casual market?

Incubator 238

Incubator Early Adopters Business Model Quality 238

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These often post-industrial towns have fallen from their heyday, and citizens have fought back against a globalized system they feel is not serving them well. The Zen incubator scheme requires staff to form a team of between 2 and 5 colleagues, each with at least 1 year of employment at the company. Rural innovation.

Incubator 49

Incubator Diversity Kaplan Objective 49

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. The asymmetrical aspects of America’s security, as well as the growing threat of flashpoints with China and Russia , require constant innovation at a quick pace.

Innovation 130

Innovation Software Industry Politics 130

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Obviously professionally produced, it highlighted the space the company had set up for innovation. But further investigation showed that the video was nothing more than a beautiful piece of “innoganda” — innovation propaganda describing an effort that had little hope of driving any material impact.

Innovation 8

Innovation PR Incubator Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

These three aspects of emerging markets require innovations that can subsequently be taken global — a phenomenon known as " reverse innovation." However, a fourth and powerful driver of reverse innovation is the comparative absence of intermediaries: an institutional gap.

Innovation 14

Innovation Health Care Incubator Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. The data in the graph above demonstrate the link between innovation, bureaucracy, and uncertainty. But Greece cannot stop there. National competitiveness Economics & Society Europe'

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A result that is exacerbated by the simultaneous decrease in the cost of innovation and the rise of new approaches, like Y Combinator's systematic incubation factory, Kickstarter's crowd-funding platform, and super angels like Ron Conway. Expect to see continued growth among incubators that support fast-cycle iteration.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. Giving managers more time to do deep thinking can unlock innovations that can have a significant impact on productivity. Yet, only one in eight employees are inspired.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

A result that is exacerbated by the simultaneous decrease in the cost of innovation and the rise of new approaches, like Y Combinator's systematic incubation factory, Kickstarter's crowd-funding platform, and super angels like Ron Conway. Expect to see continued growth among incubators that support fast-cycle iteration.

Venture Capitalist 13

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Similar fates often befall innovations within large companies. You must do that in the face of vast forces arrayed against innovation within an established organization, which include inertia, resistance to change, fear of failure, financial disincentives, and the tendency of people and organizations to favor what has worked in the past.

Cialdini 13

Cialdini Resistance Innovation Media 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It's just that they're often busy doing what they've always done, maintaining operational systems while reacting to the demands of an increasingly tech-savvy user community. The bottom left quadrant connotes building and maintenance work required for large systems from proprietary billing systems to legacy mainframe applications.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

based solar energy companies produce systems that compete on price, opening up huge new mass markets for renewable energy? will need radical and disruptive innovation to reinvent its clean-tech economy. Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides.

Incubator 13

Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

The bar was set high: The district would need to create jobs, engage the surrounding community, inspire connection between the existing neighborhood and the broader city, preserve historical identity, and incubate entrepreneurship — all while making economic sense as a development. Design for inclusion.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

“The medieval guild system was a primitive networking exercise.” “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator,” stated Francis Bacon. The major innovation lay in an extraordinary machine already in use in Lucca, about 150 kilometers southwest of Bologna.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The incubation system, the ecosystem and the environment are important, but sometimes, it can be a very simple "latent factor" ingenuity that redesigns not just a company, but an entire industry. That pursuit of technology innovation continues to change the world. You can't resell that CD, legally.

Licensing 16

Licensing Software Automotive Incubator 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. Innovation in Cities. Their innovation districts focus on quality of life, not just tax breaks. How do they do it? Insight Center.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Incubator Innovation Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

CEO 12

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Others see it as a giant economic engine spitting out startup after startup to capitalize on the region''s wealth of innovations. If there is one thing people in general here have learned from technologists, it is that things are hack-able — that the way we''ve designed various systems is not pre-ordained or immutable.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems. A focused effort to set national guidelines for taxation, grants, definitions, and so on would provide a more stable foundation for American innovators.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

” Other attempts to adapt to Apple’s innovations, such as the Zune mp3 player, didn’t gain traction either. To understand how, take a look at the innovation ecosystem that it’s built. It invests heavily into research and allows promising projects to incubate at its Google X division.

Company 8

Company Levitt Succession Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Starbucks invested in and partnered with Square in 2012 to bring mobile payment systems into its stores using Square’s Wallet app. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. Build it yourself. All three options require capital.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Or, if investors are enthusiastic about a new business that Liberty is incubating inside one of its existing companies, he can spin out that business as a “newco” with its own stock. If he thinks one of Liberty’s companies has a rich valuation, he can sell more stock to outside investors at a high price.

Examples 8

Examples Incubator Restructuring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

To help address it, ADO has, with the help of some innovative business firms, leapt to the forefront with a new approach to sourcing cybersecurity talent: “Dandelion programs.” Specially developed training provides unique preparation for the job. Though it remains early days, so far this works well.

Organization 8

Organization Analysis Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

LCPs bring firm-wide insights to activities like vetting or hiring CHROs within portfolio companies, encouraging leadership and organizational innovation in portfolio companies, and sharing best practices and learnings across portfolio companies. LCPs also participate in divestiture negotiations.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Instead of manipulating the tax code to encourage startups once they are profitable, we should do everything we can to remove these early costs in the system. Right now incubators such as Y Combinator and TechStars are performing this task for the best existing entrepreneurs. Picture something like a rotational program for innovation.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Licensing Telecommunications Incubator 14