The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We found that the energy and carbon footprints of this automated parcel delivery in suburban areas was similar to that of conventional human driven vehicles. The last mile is traditionally the most expensive leg of the product’s journey, both in financial and environmental terms. Optimizing the last mile.

Parcell 94

Parcell Analysis System Technology 94

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Take Sarah, the head of IT at a global technology company. Her job was to develop new engagement technologies in her organization, but instead of embracing critical feedback on her ideas, she ignored it. There’s no question that an ability to manage conflict is part and parcel of all three. And it hurts your image as a leader.

Parcell 13

Parcell Agility Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A large part of NAF’s effort with farmers is to help break their initial emotional barriers to new technologies. The success of these measures has had a demonstrative impact on the farmers’ willingness to adopt and internalize new technologies. This has provided the platform to launch into other initiatives.

Innovation 9

Innovation Microfinance Parcell Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

Some old technologies, after being rendered obsolete by better and cheaper alternatives (indeed even after whole industries based on them have been decimated), manage to “re-emerge” to the point that they sustain healthy businesses. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Supply Chain Technology Parcell 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Many British firms have been slow to recognize the direct correlation between corporate empathy and growth and productivity. Technology.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Many of the nation’s most beautiful and productive cities — New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and others — abut the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. What will this adaptation look like? economy be crippled?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Here are six ways to change that.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

How many organizations would rely mainly on intuition when taking a new product to market? ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." When successful, these companies improve the productivity and capability of their workers — and that's a good thing. A man who is. Take Sprint.

Metrics 12

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

And that is part and parcel of professional life. “People spend so much time in their own heads, thinking about their idea, that they fail to draw the connection to how the product will improve someone else’s life,” he says. ” But that notion is outdated. ” Here’s how to get better at it. .”

Skills 21

Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Working to find and fix errors is part and parcel of most operational processes, and once they turn a harsh eye on non-value-added work, most leaders can root it out. You spend a lot of time and effort, but you are no better off than you would be if you'd billed the customer correctly the first time. These costs are estimable.

Quality 14

Quality Parcell Cost Deming 14

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). If you are not building an organizational culture that rewards “Successful Failure,” employees will not take the initiative to experiment and invent new products and services.

Letter 85

Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models. This annual pool of resources and money is parceled out to the various initiatives in the innovation portfolio as those projects evolve and grow in importance over time.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

McKinsey and Company reported similar findings from its Organizational Health Index as did Timothy Devinney at Australia’s University of Technology in a recent experiment. Taken together, this research points to the fact that most leaders just don’t get what their organizations are trying to do.

Strategy 8

Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

When Nokia's boss declares a state of emergency because the company is caught between a surge of low-end products and the runaway success of other mobile telephony platforms, you know that his organization is crying out for 2-in-1 leadership. It became the most successful product launch in the company's history. Valuable enough?"

Parcell 11

Parcell CEO Airlines Trends 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Growing up, he’d constantly tailed Grant around the fields, watching him experiment with crops and technologies that would help the farm survive dry spells. A 25-year lease to put solar panels on a parcel of land would generate the same returns as growing tomatoes—without any irrigation headaches. But not water.

Case Study 8

Case Study Parcell Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

By Paul Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Ocado. Across the retail landscape, a war is going on, and the battles are being fought on multiple fronts: business models, channels, brands, customers, technologies, and more. Some of these are old scores reignited by new protagonists armed with new weapons, but quite a few are new clashes.

Retail 8

Retail Technology Content Chief Technology Officer 8