The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. There are risks of course, not least in the potential for significant income inequality if some sections of society are working more traditional hours and some are working heavily reduced hours.

Osborne 67

Osborne Long-term Proposal Technology 67

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Succession Self-aware Storytelling 65

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2019

In the course of my years partnering with web developer and SEO specialist Sagapixel, I’ve learned a lot about how to market my firm. I am a busy Philadelphia appeals attorney and had to learn the hard way that running and marketing a law practice has nothing to do with the practice of law. What Are the “Four P’s” of Marketing?

Marketing 11

Marketing Advertising Price Real Estate 11

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology' Here’s the list.

Management 19

Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Scale – Expanding potential through technology, delegation and partnership. Around 2013 we began to notice an exciting renaissance in the SF tech scene as startups and entrepreneurship took off. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. DAVID: Yeah. I should say we were talking off the air about- Thanks for ruining Everett Rogers’ curve for me.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2013

However, universities, and the job market, often argue that a college degree is necessary to succeed in life and obtain a high paying job. The Competitive Job Market. For example, in the field of medicine, new technologies are constantly being developed to help aid and assist patients. More Money Available. All rights reserved.

Education 59

Education Letter Competitive Advantage Talent Management 59

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013.

Technology 8

Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Given the number of baby boomers expected to retire between now and 2030 (the last group of baby boomers reach of the age of 65 in 2030, and, of course, some may choose to work past age 65) organizations need to prepare others to take over leadership roles. Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study.

Case Study 228

Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

Trends 265

Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Investing in technology can help lift people out of poverty, and investments that use technology for development are good for business, creating millions of new customers. Using information and communications technology (ICT) for development is fairly common, but surprisingly, most digital divide projects don’t generate revenue.

Technology 8

Technology Globalization Project System 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. Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. This is an excellent way to share each other's progress and give understanding for courses of choice. Civil Rights Act, 50th.

Case Study 50

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

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

Disruptive Innovation 22

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. ” Of course, this theory predicts that skill requirements should fall when the labor market tightens.

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Take technology providers' technical support, with its long hold times "hopelessly complex interactions." The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. VCs barely invest in their own funds.

Venture Capitalist 18

Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

We investigated this topic when we studied how Nokia executives dealt with the company’s severe strategic challenges between 2007 and 2013. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. Not until there’s an option.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Her company has the bold goal to attract and train hundreds of thousands of new networking professionals by offering certification courses in networking technology and other training resources. Last August, they pledged to hire 1,000 veterans and spouses of active duty soldiers by the end of 2013 - a noble commitment.

Discount 15

Discount Training Insurance Education 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact. Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

But that doesn’t mean that new technologies aren’t going to usher in a lot of disruption to the financial system. Traditional economists (and, yes, that label could well describe both of us) often ignore a crucial separation between money (the “what”) and the payment technology (the “how).

Banking 8

Banking Technology System Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

New products are, of course, the province of R&D teams or research partners. The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

without any compliance process or technology in place.". The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant. Employees, particularly those in the sales and marketing functions, need to know the rules of the road," Langford says.

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. But in 2013 it was comfortably beaten by Singapore and Hong Kong and by four other countries: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland. Well, it’s not about the people.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

October 2013) The Dark Side of Generic Drugs Dirty Medicine Fortune Generic drugs can be inexpensive and effective alternatives to their branded counterparts. In it, he traces the intersection of science and marketing that''s made junk food so delicious, so profitable, and so very bad for you. And we all know what happened next.

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

On November 15, 2013, China announced dramatic new social and economic policies contemplating much greater reliance on market forces than it has in the past and inviting private-sector participation and foreign competition in industries long previously controlled by the central government. China will grow faster in 2014 than in 2013.

Policies 8

Policies Class Health Care Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

And while there is an abundance of courses, books, articles and opinions on the process of strategic planning, the focus is typically on an isolated process that might happen once or twice per year. In 2013, Management Research Group (MRG) completed a large scale global study addressing this question. A strategic approach takes time.

Organization 15

Organization Development Tactics Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Census data from 1990 to 2013. See More Videos > See More Videos > Where you work matters, not just for how much you make, but for your economic mobility — how much you rise or fall in income over the course of your lifetime. skills, experience, etc.) and how much are attributable to the firm where they work.

Class 9

Class Video Bottom-up Skills 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

As a member of a start-up advisory program, I regularly hear pitches from aspiring technology entrepreneurs. billion IPO valuation in 2013) can be attributed to its continued focus on that target. They chart their own course and invite the world to navigate around them. Branding Marketing Strategy' How – personality.

Brand 10

Brand IPO Marketing Strategy Airlines 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

It was the first time a vice chair would be based in an emerging market. Such decisions might be unpopular and break a lot of traditions, yet they set the future course of the company. Today most if not all industries are impacted by digitization—mobile technology, big data, and the like. We are shifting our center of gravity.”

P&L 8

P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Data scientists, supported by the stunning growth in the gathering and processing of so-called big data, can extract patterns from massive stores of browsing and sales data in order to predict our likes and dislikes and tailor marketing experiences to us. Marketing Retail Technology' Even Netflix has come around to this.

Banking 8

Banking Engineering Loyalty Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

There was a heartening rally between 1996 and 2004, when growth returned to its 1950s/1960s levels of 3% — a performance almost universally attributed to the efficiency gains from information technology. decline on the back of a flat 2013 and +0.7% markets was to systematically reduce prevailing price levels.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, a 7% increase over the previous quarter. Of course, simply spending more is not a strategy. This may not be a big surprise; many of the early Big Data technologies such as the Hadoop Big Data system came from Internet companies themselves such as Yahoo and Google.

ROI 8

ROI Company Learning Curve Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. At the same time Amway and L’Oreal thrived in the same market and personal care sales boomed across most of India. And rarely is an American product or service the low-price leader in India’s market.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 12