The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation. in 1985 to 5.3%

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 95

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought. I Think Not.

Blog 345

Blog Content Media Brand 345

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I’m not an MBA.

Blog 411

Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 411

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

Blog 404

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

ability to see the interrelationships between elements … such as, how decisions made in engineering impact other functions). The personal computer revolution was started by putting together existing technologies in a way never done before. These leaders are innovators. Systems thinking (ie., Patterns recognition (ie.,

Strategic Planning 131

Strategic Planning Content Covey Industry 131

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Too often, leaders focus only on current operations because it is the performance engine that generates the funds necessary to stay in play. Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. Futurists call them “weak signals.”

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

According to a new study from Stanford, once a company goes public, innovation declines. technology firms between 1983 and 2006 — a data set that includes Microsoft and Google, among others. technology firms between 1983 and 2006 — a data set that includes Microsoft and Google, among others.

Innovation 8

Innovation Finance Technology Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

In 2006, when the company launched a new line of foundations intended to address a wider variety of skin tones, Atis saw that they still didn’t measure up. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements. It lit a fire under her. They don’t go it alone. The prize?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute.

Media 407

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

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. In IBM's 2006 jam, the company assembled 150,000 people from 104 countries and 67 client companies.

Process 15

Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

Blog 414

Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The cap-and-trade program is the centerpiece of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, also known as AB 32 — a suite of clean energy solutions that has proved to be the engine of an astounding economic transformation that drove statewide growth at twice the rate of the U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

Price 15

Price Energy Transportation Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

“Social design,” a term whose roots go back several decades, fully entered the lexicon around 2006. Planning, especially facilities planning, almost inevitably stifles ongoing innovation. It refers to the design of relationships, including those that are invisible and intangible. Experiment continually.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

While the technology supporting sales process have clearly evolved, the traditional sales strategies proffered by sales gurus 20 or 30 years ago have not kept pace with market needs. Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale.

Blog 409

Blog Ryan B2C Brand 409

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. Engagement systems are powered by business rules and complex event processing engines. Users can change the flow of a task using visual tools.

Directory 15

Directory System Media Video 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Disney, which bought Pixar in 2006, knows what infinity looks like: copyright protection. Google Books represents a major victory for Internet search engines and consumers. The court viewed the two as functionally equivalent and held that this technology similarly does not infringe on the copyright of the broadcaster.

Technology 8

Technology Open-book Information Technology Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. Readers in industries where the pace of change has slowed and ambiguity has decreased , please stop reading. This post isn’t for you. Everyone still here?

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2012

Private R&D spending has also tailed off since then, when it brought us breakthrough innovations like laser printing, the Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the mouse. And that was just from one company's private R&D engine, Xerox's PARC. But each of us as individuals can also work to optimize our innovative capacities.

Creativity 16

Creativity Groupthink Stress GDP 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The contrast could not be clearer: Amazon – fearlessly making big, risky bets like a serial entrepreneur; and Microsoft, eschewing disruptive innovation in favor of remaining the “ fast follower ” it has always been, wringing profit from previously proven technologies.

Company 8

Company Software Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. Platforms of engagement, based on human experiences, are the new loci of value creation and therefore the new engines of capitalism.

CEO 10

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Similarly, about one-fourth of all technology and engineering companies started in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. In the U.S., immigrants are almost twice as likely to become entrepreneurs as native-born U.S. Immigrants represent 27.5% And this pattern extends beyond the U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. Matthew Eyring , Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer of Vivint Inc.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Indeed, much of the distinction in a powerful capabilities system stems from the sparks created when people with different backgrounds, skills, technologies, and perspectives build practices and processes together. The most important capabilities systems do not fall neatly into groupings designed many decades ago.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

In 2006, 26-year-old Frank Wang started up DJI in a dorm room at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. As part of his graduate thesis, he perfected an electronics flight controller, a critical element of drone technology. But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. Specifically, what is the role of the leader in creating and sustaining an innovative organization? Or, as Hill puts it, “Conventional leadership won’t get you to innovation.”

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

While most corporate cultures are focused on engineering the most common goal of every business, some employers are repositioning their cultures to address social inequality as well as drive diversity & inclusion. Our people are our greatest asset, they are the reason that we’re here today.

Globalization 40

Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Global supply chains can cut across many “cultures”: national, industry, technology, market segment, and more. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Collins Golden Handcuff Pharmaceuticals 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Always appreciate your insights Peter… [link] mikemyatt Hi Elliot: The four items mentioned in your list regrettably happen to exist in many domains far beyond the engineering field. Thanks Brian. elliotross Allow me to echo the 'spot on' comments above!

Blog 420

Blog Engineering Brand Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8