The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. in 1985 to 5.3% This has made the once-fabled unicorn a much more frequent sight, with recent valuations hitting the frothy heights of 40-50 times revenue.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 94

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. An organization’s customers, transactions, operations, and reports can all be affected by its data integrity. References: Cosgrove, T.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

And yet, the undeniable truth is that the longevity of today’s organizations is no longer dependent on what technologies you use, where you operate, or even what you create. If so, I’m looking forward to seeing what ideas come to mind in the weeks and months to come.

Leadership 271

Leadership Mentor Long-term Audience 271

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

In the two decades from 1990 to 2010, our country fell from having the sixth-highest rate of female labor-force participation among 22 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, countries to 17th on the list. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Diversity 66

Diversity Competitive Advantage Participative Committee 66

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. Best Leadership Books of 2014. Best Leadership Books of 2013. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015.

Books 150

Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2014

Peter Fingar, co-author of Business Process Management : The Third Wave , then asks these measurement corollaries in his 2013 article “How Do Your BPM Metrics Measure Up?”. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right things? Are we measuring things right?

Metrics 52

Metrics BPM Process KPI 52

Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2014

Find certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSB), Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSB), 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Businesses or those operating in areas designated as Historically Underutilized Business zones (HUBZone) within related industries and connect with them to pursue contract awards within these categories.

Open-book 58

Open-book Budgeting Proposal Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment.

How To 50

How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Building Personal Strength

JUNE 11, 2014

The tiny town of Gruene has three or four different venues, including Gruene Hall, the oldest continuously operating honky-tonk dance hall in Texas. Strong for Performance , introduced in 2013, supports Step Two, the long-term coaching effort to ingrain automatic behavior patterns. Copyright 2014. Post by Dennis E. Coates, Ph.D.,

Long-term 44

Long-term Learning-by-Doing Technology Training 44

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2014

The ‘lead’ is rightfully labeled as MQL, or SALs which helps a marketing operations person understand the definition for each defined stage, but it doesn’t help a practitioner understand if the customer segments being targeted are over indexing or under indexing, based on their investment and executional plan.

Marketing 51

Marketing B2B Due Diligence Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

As a 2013 company report* stated, “Navistar was selected as a name with a strong sound, a resonance to Harvester, and a connection to its root words “navigate” and “star.” Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). 3% of those polled (57 million individuals at the time of the study) admitted to intentionally ramming another vehicle (AAA 2014). Alston, the UN Study). It is hilarious.

How To 106

How To Bond Positioning Stress 106

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

And this is understandable if we appreciate that – thanks to the faster-pace by which we now have to operate – it’s become harder for people to make those connections for themselves.” They want to understand the connections between their efforts and the larger shared purpose that defines why we do what we do.

Leadership 100

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Environment Succession 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In 2013, Ashley Stewart was on the brink of bankruptcy — its second in a little over three years. Decades of operating losses and rampant turnover in both the employee base and ownership group had cemented a fearful culture. To give her a chance, I resigned from the board to become CEO in August 2013.

Fashion 8

Fashion Operations Brand Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

Checklists describe several standard critical processes of care that many operating rooms typically implement from memory. In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. following the introduction of checklists.

Hawthorne Effect 16

Hawthorne Effect Airlines Efficiency Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 9

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

An estimated 21% of carbon emissions in the United States are attributable to companies, and yet to date there is scant research on how to make firm operations more efficient in terms of reducing pollution. However, the numbers suggest that getting employees to change their behavior could significantly impact climate change.

Hawthorne Effect 8

Hawthorne Effect Efficiency Metrics Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Between October 1 and 17, the federal government ceased all nonessential operations because of a partisan stalemate over Obamacare. noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08

Health Care 8

Health Care Budgeting Pharmaceuticals Review 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. Specifically, are companies from advanced economies failing to keep up with the big shift?

Globalization 8

Globalization Altman Sample Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

As I described in my 2014 and 2015 reports, for two years running, BYOD existed in over half the 300 companies surveyed: 35% of organizations officially allowed it and 20% did not officially allow it but acknowledged its existence. It’s also more common among the high performers in that category. BYOA showed a different pattern.

Trends 8

Trends Survey Telecommunications Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While consumers are rightfully worried that their personal information may be compromised, shareholders and companies’ management have a wider set of concerns, including loss of intellectual property, operational disruption, decreased customer trust, tarnished brand, and loss of investor commitment. The stock price declined 0.3%

Price 8

Price Long-term Banking Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. According to Reuters reporting , until a few years ago the bank operated in Sudan, a country whose government was under U.S. sanctions, like Iran.

Politics 12

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management. To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. How Google manages.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

At these locations, any money made goes first to fund operations, and additional profits go to local charities. North American restaurant chain Panera Bread is experimenting with a nonprofit variation, where the company donates a number of existing stores to its "Panera Cares" foundation. BONUS BITS: Telecommunications Takedowns.

Apparel 8

Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

We’ll see industry consolidation continue in 2014 and witness the rise of open platforms that will make media planning and buying a whole lot simpler for all involved. 2014 will be the year that marketers demand device agnostic advertising. Operational convergence will drive strategy. Mobile will drive sales for marketers.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

There is a lot at stake here for GE’s operations strategy. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” and compete successfully.

Ries 10

Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Take the example of Harvey Norman , an Australia-based household-goods retailer that operates under various brands and has stores in several countries. The company’s 2013 annual report contained the usual statements on income, changes in equity, and cash flows — standard stuff. Its revenue comes from franchises ($AU4.77

Report 10

Report Franchising Guidelines Analysis 10

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike. By April 2014, Nike was waving the white flag by laying off most of the FuelBand’s development team. It comes down to respect and fairness, and many leaders fail the test.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Using the same formula, Apple’s intangible assets in 2014 were $280 billion — or almost twice the value of its 2015 calculation. Between 2013 and 2015 cyber-crime costs quadrupled, with the reported incidence rate growing exponentially. Such costs are expected to quadruple again by 2019, to in excess of $2 trillion.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

” A quarter century later, not much seems to have changed: fewer than five out of the 100 CEOs on HBR’s 2014 list of best-performing CEOs even mention “return on capital” on their official biography — and none of those five lead companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or in the EuroStoxx50.

CEO 8

CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

business ended 2014 with 39.1 This allows you to better manage operating and capital expenses. In early 2014, Starbucks said consumers loaded $1.4 According to Bloomberg Businessweek, in 2013 Starbucks made $146MM on interest investing the float, or 8% of total profit. Netflix just announced its best quarter ever.

Business Model 8

Business Model Loyalty Brand Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The transition to a global digital economy in 2014 was sporadic – brisk in some countries, choppy in others. This is happening in a country where online vendors largely operate on a cash-on-delivery (COD) basis. By year’s end, the seven biggest emerging markets were larger than the G7 , in purchasing power parity terms.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Roughly 80% of individuals and families who bought their health insurance through an SBM or FFM in 2014 received a tax credit to defray the cost of premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 This reduction will affect all of our operations, including staffing, customer service, outreach, and marketing.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. In sharp contrast, European network operators who are unable to recover their investments continue to fall farther behind. network operators invested $600 per household compared to $389 in the EU. The result is that the U.S.

Price 8

Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Beginning in 2013, a handful of tech companies (including Yelp, where some of us work, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook) began to research and release data on the diversity of their workforces. For instance, in 2014 only 10% of Yelp’s engineers were female. The numbers were grim. Yelp now sets explicit targets for diversity.

Diversity 8

Diversity Engineering Committee Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. But the key was knowing when to stop growing. Measure success.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Our data shows that from 2004 to 2014, WPP made a staggering 271 acquisitions — which averages to more than one every two weeks — 60% more than the next busiest acquirer during that decade, Google (now Alphabet). After that, however, WPP practiced programmatic M&A, turning it into a strong muscle.

CAGR 8

CAGR Due Diligence Industry Bottom-up 8