The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

By contrast, firms operating in areas such as online retail, pharmaceuticals, and information and communications technology, have all thrived. Smaller firms were especially affected by the virus because they rely far more on face-to-face interactions with customers for both marketing and transactions. Face-to-face interactions.

Pharmaceuticals 68

Pharmaceuticals Transportation Retail Long-term 68

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That we’re still largely waiting for such an immersive world to take hold, despite much-hyped initiatives, such as Second Life, perhaps underlines the difficulties the technology has had in keeping pace with such a vision. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 Digital twins.

Stephenson 85

Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 85

Engaging Leader

APRIL 13, 2014

Provisions of employer-sponsored health care coverage that influence how health care services and pharmaceuticals are selected, purchased, and used. People, technology, programs, and activities designed to promote healthy lifestyles, prevent the onset or acceleration of disease, and improve recovery from illness or injury.

Health Care 138

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Long-term Education 138

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

The current political conditions make Britain a unique test market; the more local independent entrepreneurs we can attract to join our global community, the more interesting and innovative applications we can build with British businesses through e-Residency.

Pharmaceuticals 62

Pharmaceuticals Entrepreneur Politics Globalization 62

HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2020

They offer hosting and management services, along with marketing and customer service management. It conducts clinical trials on behalf of its pharmaceutical clients and provides regulatory, consulting, and market access to expedite the drug approval process. It offers Linux, cloud, container, and Kubernetes technologies.

Company 85

Company Insurance Travel Software 85

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” In other words, Larry Page sees Google as a broad portfolio of science, technology, and Internet-related resources that can be leveraged into almost any meaningful new venture. This is quite understandable.

How To 100

How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Former HR director with Pepsi Central Eastern Europe, and gained HR expertise at PLIVA Pharmaceutical Company (now part of Teva Group).

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Recently, information technology research and advisory company Gartner compiled a list of top 10 strategic technology trends. This information improved marketing campaign targeting, as well as sales force targeting. In the pharmaceutical industry, technology is transforming the sales process. Computing everywhere.

Trends 8

Trends Technology Pharmaceuticals Team 8

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Here is the rub and the reason why adopting this principle is so critical: in our experience, the priority initiatives turn out to be on new product, service, customer, and technology initiatives accompanied by an assumption that the organization has the capabilities to execute them. Engineered to Win.

Process 150

Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 21, 2012

An entrepreneur and veteran of the computer industry, Frank Moss spent his career bringing innovative technologies to market. Ten years ago he set out to make a broader contribution to the world, leading him to cofound a cancer drug discovery company and then to the MIT Media Lab, where he served as director from 2006 [.].

Entrepreneur 80

Entrepreneur Media Technology Innovation 80

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Higher prices and reduced advertising created an opening for competitors to take away market share, which they did. So while profits were rising and ROIC was high, market share was declining.

ROIC 62

ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. Inside Intel.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Much of marketing is premised on companies delivering messages to customers to influence their purchases and consumption. But within a few years, this model of marketing, advertising, and shopping will become obsolete. What does marketing look like in a world where your machines talk to their machines? Insight Center.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Loyalty Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Venture capitalists are increasingly interested in emerging markets, and in working with local funds based in those markets (despite the fact that reverse innovation in venture capital seems counterintuitive). In contrast, emerging-market VCs such as Nadathur Holdings (established in 2000 by N.S.

Marketing 15

Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

This is particularly true for the marketing department, which is changing at such a break-neck pace that marketing success now depends heavily on support from HR to identify and train new skillsets. On the flip side, success in HR could use a major assist from marketing, or at least HR professionals who think like marketers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Content Pharmaceuticals PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market. Draetta of IACS has found many of the same issues arise in pharmaceutical research.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

For years, there has been a push within the pharmaceutical industry to move “beyond the pill” — in other words, to build and deploy complementary services and solutions to diversify revenue sources. However, many beyond-the-pill efforts have sputtered or died. Regulatory environment.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Health Care Industry Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The difference between displacement (outperforming existing market incumbents at their own game) and disruption (changing the game) is strategically important, no matter how similar the pain they cause is. Displacement generally is easier to combat than disruption.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). (The imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S.

Competitive Advantage 11

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

Why the Pharmaceutical Industry Is Booming in Japan. Japan already enjoys the world’s second-biggest market in medical devices. percent of the 2014 global medical device market—behind the U.S. Philips, the Dutch electronics and health care corporation, is among the foreign companies attracted to Japan’s market.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry Pharmaceuticals Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. In the guitar business , too.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 11

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Numerous companies are now addressing market and regulatory demands by actively seeking to enhance the demographic diversity of their corporate boards. Moderna, a prominent pharmaceutical and biotechnology firm, adopted an unconventional approach utilizing RNA technology to develop one of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Diversity 95

Diversity Innovation Biotechnology Short-term 95

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. Medical supply and equipment costs are abating under market pressure.

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Firms engage in political “rent seeking”—lobbying for regulations that provide them sheltered markets—rather than competing on innovation. Perhaps profits are rising because firms are increasingly making profitable investments in new technology, in IT, or in their organizational capabilities.

Pharmaceuticals 11

Pharmaceuticals Politics Price Chemicals 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. The second play is to try to use its technological aptitude to create a vehicle that solves a particular problem. Some of them may never enter the car market, or may at least significantly delay a move toward ownership.

Transportation 10

Transportation Sports Pharmaceuticals Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. In the early 1920s, as a result of a growing market for Idrolitina, Gazzoni decided to automate the packaging process. .”

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. They’re also sharing risk.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

But China also has a huge domestic market for fake goods: many consumers who buy counterfeits do so deliberately, because they want to pay a lower price for goods that look expensive. Do not wait until you actually enter the Chinese market. Invest in anti-counterfeit technology. Fake merchandise accounted for 12.5%

Brand 8

Brand Supply Chain Merchandising Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. So reducing investments in low-value care services means spending less on doctors, hospitals, and other health care technologies. rawpixel/Getty Images.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

They might make a targeted acquisition here or there, form an alliance now and again, or license in some specialized technology, but by and large they made their own drugs, supporting big, fully staffed research labs, which they would then market themselves. As yet, the facts don't seem to substantiate the fears.

Licensing 13

Licensing Depreciation Pharmaceuticals Budgeting 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

” In the article, a marketing expert explains why societal shifts would render the door-to-door salesman obsolete. Buyers used the salesman’s help to evaluate what products to purchase, especially for new technologies like clocks and sewing machines. ” That 1916 prediction didn’t prove true.

B2B 8

B2B B2C Uncertainty Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Strategic cash provides more flexibility concerning the timing and pricing of potential acquisitions; having cash on hand is the best insurance that CFOs will be able to respond with alacrity to opportunities and not be subject to the vagaries of the financial markets. Facilitate Investments. Arguments Against Strategic Cash.

Company 14

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His company is quite respected in the sustainability community both for its progressive social equity policies and for green technology that limits the environmental impacts of his company's manufacturing activities. So I asked: Do you foresee a time when you'd willingly provide access to your leading green technology to your competitors?

Co-Opetition 14

Co-Opetition Company Brandenburger Game Theory 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. Medical supply and equipment costs are abating under market pressure.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Retail Long-term Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. In the last year, however, early-stage investments in clean energy production technologies have fallen substantially (see the table at the end of this piece for more detail).

Energy 11

Energy Finance IPO Biotechnology 11