The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Despite the tremendous investments in quite noticeable technological breakthroughs since then, productivity growth in many G20 countries has been sluggish for some time. The authors argue that digital technology has certainly led to productivity growth, but mismeasurement may not be capturing those gains successfully.

Productivity 79

Productivity Products Technology Report 79

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

.” Fighting spirit For instance, consider Apple’s situation in 2001 just before launching the iPod, when the company was facing difficult times. However, Apple’s commitment to innovation and its collective underdog identity revolutionized the way people interact with technology.

Motivation 52

Motivation Team Telecommunications Apparel 52

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Think of Peter Drucker who topped the first Thinkers50 ranking in 2001.

Blue Ocean Strategy 220

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 220

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The notion of the on-demand workforce was first brought to popular attention by Dan Pink in 2001 when he published Free Agent Nation, in which he predicted a future dominated by independent workers. This has been especially so in digital domains, where the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation efforts across the economy.

Agility 95

Agility Business Model Survey Policies 95

Coaching Tip

JULY 16, 2015

Kodak's technology was also far ahead of Fujifilm's. After I left Kodak, as a marketing specialist, to take a new leadership position in another industry in 1973, Fujifilm's technology was catching up with Kodak's and by the 1980s Fujifilm had technically surpassed Kodak in nearly all varieties of film. What happened?

Film 70

Film Crisis Innovation Brand 70

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Many years later I learned the technique for using black light technology. This was the time to bring paint in 50 gallon drums, roll out a canvas the size of Texas, and put brushes in the hands of innovative designers. If you remember the eras of 1987 or 2001-2002 or 2007-2008 your experience might be similar.

Attrition 317

Attrition Compliance Delegation Audience 317

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Their ability to “deliver happiness” and release unexpected ‘must-have’ technologies respectively, are clearly not mere responses to the challenges they incur from their competition. If there’s one fault that can be ascribed to Apple’s competition, it’s not their lack of innovation or creativity.

Succession 210

Succession Goal Objective Technology 210

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy! I Think Not.

Blog 352

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 352

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2011

Forbes recently published our list of the world's most innovative companies in which we ranked companies based upon their innovation premium. But why do some companies have a high innovation premium while others do not? This expectation helped foster an innovation focus throughout the company.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Disruptive Innovation Restructuring 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. percent while the overall unemployment rate is 4.9 percent.

Agility 50

Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods. Disruptive technologies were terrorizing slow-footed competitors. Once the Snowbird meeting had canonized a creed for agile innovation, the agile movement spread rapidly.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Before Mark Zuckerberg wrote a line of Facebook’s code, Kodak made a prescient purchase, acquiring a photo sharing site called Ofoto in 2001.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

As Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — and Tim Cook takes over — many folks are wondering whether Apple can keep its innovation engine humming. During Jobs' absence from 1986-1998, Apple's innovation premium dropped by 30% as the company quit innovating and its investors lost confidence. Can he do it?

Innovation 13

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Restructuring Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

The declines in manufacturing jobs during the downturns of 2001 and 2007, which totaled over 5.8 Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT). Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2017

Innovation could come to the rescue by boosting the productivity of the remaining labor force. Innovation is the means; economic growth is the end. Innovation is the means; economic growth is the end. Can we plausibly expect aging societies to be as innovative as they need to be? Accordingly, GDP per capita tends to fall.

Innovation 8

Innovation GDP Health Care Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts. Why wasn't it copied immediately?

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

As a soldier deployed for my ninth time since the events of September 11, 2001 I’ve seen firsthand the amazing impact something as simple as a letter can have on the human spirit. Afghanistan Air Force Culture Innovation Kabul Leadership Military Networking Service Strategy Switch and Shift USAF Virtues'

Emotional Intelligence 150

Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

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? Where will this period of discovery take the company?

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Change is innovative. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. I’m the person who planted the ideas and strategy.

Case Study 50

Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S. why is everyone smiling?

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. When Jack Welch stepped down as CEO in 2001, GE’s defined benefit (DB) plan was sitting on a surplus of $14.6

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Once again, it has started in the bowels of technology companies and startups. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images.

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

One of the strengths of visionary CEOs is that they build an executive staff of world-class operating executives (and that they unconsciously force out the world-class innovators among their direct reports). Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. And that brings us to Apple, Tim Cook and the Apple board.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

innovation, engagement, creativity, and fulfillment. And collaboration technologies like shared calendars too often create a chock-a-block schedule of meetings, many-sided conversations, and a tangled skein of emails, IMs, and tweets. So it goes with collaboration these days. No one works any longer, they collaborate. Sound extreme?

Energy 15

Energy Performance Review Creativity Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. While our research found that firm-level innovation is high, we also note that policy plays an important role.

Depreciation 8

Depreciation Long-term Short-term GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Intrigued by technology and innovation, Achan took the initiative to develop two iPhone apps. Indeed, the Center for Talent Innovation’s research on sponsorship shows that one of the best ways to attract a coveted senior-level sponsor is to develop a strong personal brand. How did he make this unusual career leap?

Execution 8

Execution Hedge Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. I studied IBM and HP (and your former company, eBay) for my 2001 book, Evolve. Get the best advisers.

Tips 11

Tips CEO Software Drucker 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Of course, being a dominant film provider became increasingly irrelevant in light of recent technological shifts. Early in the 2000s it made a bold bet: buying photo sharing site Ofoto in May 2001. This is the title of the first day of the 28-day training program in the back of The Little Black Book of Innovation.

Gilbert 15

Gilbert Film Incubator Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. ” Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits, and raise the dividend. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. It's not just standardizing and streamlining.

Agility 8

Agility Process Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. The technology was great. Ironically, a much more creative and experimental approach to innovation had been central to making Hewlett Packard into a market-leading behemoth.

Ries 11

Ries Agility Market Segmentation Christensen 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology.

GDP 8

GDP IPO Venture Capitalist Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

As organizations transition from product-centric to customer-centric, CI leaders are ideally positioned to build a data-driven business case to justify the organization's marketing technology and business intelligence needs. Turning Customer Intelligence Into Innovation. The ability to describe customers realistically and actionably.

Company 14

Company Business Intelligence CRM Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

since 2001 — which lends a helpful perspective to the often downbeat discussion over the economic future here: In fact, productivity growth has been outstripping wage growth in the U.S. Disruptive innovation Economy Productivity' The lines are flatter in the U.S., as befits an already very developed, very rich economy. for decades.

GDP 11

GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

In the race for opportunity and influence in Africa, no competitor looms larger than China, which has increased its total trade with Africa twenty-fold since 2001. has the potential to create more skill, technology, and innovation in Africa than a Statist partner could. Can the U.S. disrupt our competitors’ models?

Comparison 8

Comparison Policies Influence Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8