The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2020

While the authors are keen to point out that they don’t have evidence that Russian authorities were using Twitter sentiment analysis in their military planning, they nonetheless believe their findings showcase the potential for such intelligence gathering.

Media 60

Media Public Relations Analysis Information Technology 60

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For instance, in 2013 the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued guidance on the development of the robotics industry, with this then supplemented by the Made in China 2025 program, which was launched in 2015. The analysis emerged from an exploration of occupations and salary from the U.S.

Automotive 74

Automotive Banking Industry Information Technology 74

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. The manipulation, followed by careful observation and analysis, yields insight into the relationships between cause and effect, which ideally can be applied and tested in other settings. I enjoyed my discussion about all things experimentation. “If

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The researchers compared the reach of junk news stories with their mainstream peers, whilst also attempting to explore how fake news has developed over time. The analysis revealed a distinct emotional profile for those who share true stories and those who share fake ones. Delving into fake news.

Politics 68

Politics Sample Proposal Analysis 68

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so. Adapting to change. Technology at Work. I was understandably curious therefore to see if Technology at Work 4.0

Technology 64

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 64

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. This can be part of your strategy. 656,952 tons of CO2 offset.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Prahalad Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. Each participant was assessed with the Leadership Effectiveness Analysis (LEA), a 360-degree assessment tool measuring 22 leadership practices and more than 20 measures of effectiveness. To be sure, it’s not an easy task.

Organization 15

Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

But the reality is that the youth who will be tomorrow’s innovators, educators, politicians, and business professionals aren’t ready to meet such competitive expectations — not so much because they’re untrained, but because they’re unequipped emotionally. If the U.S.

Emotional Intelligence 8

Emotional Intelligence Development Cost-Benefit Analysis Education 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. Lastly, if you don’t have a capabilities brochure already, develop one now. Strive to become known as a thought leader in your space.

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It shouldn’t happen, but it does: You realize much too late that your innovation project is in deep trouble. In a recent analysis of a massive, expensive innovation failure, Kim van Oorschot of BI Norwegian Business School, Henk Akkermans of the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, and Kishore Sengupta and Luk N.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. To answer that deeper question, we carried out a systematic analysis of the 146 unicorns identified by The Wall Street Journal. Financed by VC firms.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. We analyzed the data along several dimensions and for this analysis compared a breakout of New Zealand directors with their global counterparts.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

During the summer of 2014 alone $3 billion poured into India’s e-commerce sector, where, in addition to local innovators like Flipkart and Snapdeal, there are nearly 200 digital commerce startups flush with private investment and venture capital funds. But our analysis revealed other interesting patterns.

Constraint 8

Constraint Marketing Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Orica used the data to build pre-blast modeling and post-blast measurement and analysis, packaged in a user-friendly online system called Blast IQ. Data-Driven Marketing.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

In the European Union, government VCs allocated €3,621,000,000 to finance innovation and growth in small and medium-size businesses from 2007 to 2013. The initial aim of our work was to study financial decision making and help the group to develop their processes, not to look for gendered discourse.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

But the conditions seemed to be ripe for one to develop. Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. “Yes, but Israelis and Americans are innovative by nature.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In fact, MGI analysis of financial data shows that large publicly traded US manufacturing firms, most of them multinationals with revenues greater than $500 million, averaged returns on invested capital of 22% from 1997 to 2013. As a group, the largest U.S. These costs are significantly higher for U.S. But the future trajectory of U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

In Q2 2013, mobile revenue per 1K listener hours was $34, up 50% from $22 in 2012. Although increasing mobile revenues are driving down royalty costs as a percent of revenues (52% in 2013 Q2, compared to 61% in FY2012), royalties have risen in each of the past three years, and these cost increases are slated to continue.

CEO 8

CEO Advertising Disruptive Innovation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Take Sovaldi, launched by Gilead Sciences in late 2013 as a treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and recently superseded by Gilead’s newest drug, Harvoni. To illustrate the problem, let’s start with an example from October 2013, when Express Scripts decided to exclude 46 drugs from its formulary. In one analysis , Gordon D.

Cost 8

Cost Committee Insurance Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Take Sovaldi, launched by Gilead Sciences in late 2013 as a treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and recently superseded by Gilead’s newest drug, Harvoni. To illustrate the problem, let’s start with an example from October 2013, when Express Scripts decided to exclude 46 drugs from its formulary. In one analysis , Gordon D.

Cost 8

Cost Committee Insurance Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. Last July, after years of work, the Bureau of Economic Analysis declared that the U.S. The Kingdom of Bhutan was the first — and still the only — country to reject GDP as its primary measure and instead developed a Gross National Happiness index.

GDP 8

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Not really, suggests our analysis. For instance, ever since Goldman Sachs coined the term BRIC, China and India have pulled ahead of Brazil and Russia, whose growth fell below the group average between 2001 and 2013. We call that process the A-B-C (which stands for Analyze-Benchmark-Calibrate) of developing a globalization strategy.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

An analysis of holiday letters indicates that references to “crazy schedules” have dramatically increased since the 1960s. We think that the shift from leisure-as-status to busyness-as-status may be linked to the development of knowledge-intensive economies. ” This is more than just a subjective impression.

Brand 8

Brand Participative Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

An analysis that we conducted of disclosures made by 50 American financial services companies revealed that women occupy only 20% of executive committee roles and 22% of board positions. Career progression analysis also shows that at each level, men are promoted at materially higher rates than women. financial firms are women.

Chief Executive Officer 8

Chief Executive Officer Committee Career Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. That’s the good news.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. Keep your gaze on the customers.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

When companies in these countries seek to gender balance, they often over-focus on this analysis and ignore the bigger issue that underlies the challenge facing the private sector: That the dominant group in companies is men, and that this group sets the rules, the norms and the expectations for how leaders look and behave.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. We then developed over 50 care pathways to guide care and use of resources, to prompt specific interventions, and to inform ordering decisions. physician assistants) in the ED. Set the standard.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

The f ive forces framework for strategy may be valid in one arena, blue ocean or open innovation in another, but each approach to strategy tends to be presented or perceived as a panacea. Positional advantage is sustainable in a classical environment: the environment is predictable and develops gradually without major disruptions.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

But more important than the growth of a market are the big trends driving that growth and propelling companies and innovation forward. This is also why in 2013, the only major company to exit in this space is Chegg, a rental company that has a direct to student go-to-market. Some mega-trends are, well, mega.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Marketing Venture Capitalist Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Better analysis of those insights can improve marketing return on investment (MROI) by 10-20 percent and drive average profit growth of 14 percent.

P&L 11

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. Campbell’s work has also made liberal use of the analytic tools developed by Hansen.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

They have deep resources for innovation with the ability to accelerate the penetration and adoption of digital products. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness. In 2013 85% of the world’s transactions were in cash.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Develop a Project Management Plan for the Pilot.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The problem is that to date there has been little work to document the extent of Arab contributions to American innovation. We recently set out to remedy that, and our analysis suggests that Arab inventors play a major role in U.S. innovation. Our approach has been used before, in a study of ethnic innovation in the U.S.

Innovation 15

Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 15