The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once.

Osborne 73

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 73

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But far more important than heroic reputations are the values these captains of industry personified and instilled within their organizations. When reading the news these days, I sometimes wonder if we have completely forgotten the tenets these titans used to shape American industry. And that would be a good thing. * * *. Eich , Ph.D.

Decentralization 284

Decentralization Organizational Behavior Short-term Public Relations 284

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 22, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. On the other hand, businesses in the hospitality industry that are currently looking to sell may have products as their weakest component due to the current pandemic. What’s the best time to sell my business?

Exit Strategy 65

Exit Strategy How To Strategy Operations 65

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 21, 2013

03-26-2013 3:00 AM, EDT. 1) Productivity rises: Gallup performed a meta-analysis across 199 studies covering 152 organizations, 44 industries, and 26 countries – which was featured on the Harvard Business Review blog – and found that general productivity was 18% higher at companies where employees were more engaged than not.

Human Resources 153

Human Resources Talent Management Motivation Analysis 153

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

As you might suspect, Sam Walsh is a widely recognised name within the mining industry. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. What few may appreciate is Sam’s love for classical music, ballet and opera, art, antiques.

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 12, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. On the other hand, businesses in the hospitality industry that are currently looking to sell may have products as their weakest component due to the current pandemic. What’s the best time to sell my business?

Exit Strategy 65

Exit Strategy How To Entrepreneur Strategy 65

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2021

Read this book even if you don’t plan to sell your business but want to learn how to operate at peak performance. On the other hand, businesses in the hospitality industry that are currently looking to sell may have products as their weakest component due to the current pandemic. What’s the best time to sell my business?

Exit Strategy 65

Exit Strategy Strategy Operations Entrepreneur 65

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Why is marketing important for your business? Writing is a key element of marketing.

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Many new international competitors were taking away market share. They also felt they were operating at cross-purposes every single day. First, you must set the bar high and aspire to build the best leadership in your industry. There were many multiple competing and shifting priorities. They felt rudderless.

Human Capital 244

Human Capital Commitment Discount Conference 244

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. Over the past three decades, the U.S. Consider leaving a comment!

Payback Period 50

Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

In his book, he explains that to be successful you need to know more than your industry and just the basic concepts of leadership, management and operations. If you don''t market your business, you won''t have one. Author Bill McBean has spent nearly 40 years as a successful business owner. His advice?

Books 56

Books Storytelling Delegation Tactics 56

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC and NTE Solutions partner to provide energy industry executives and managers with asset lifecycle management and regulatory compliance advisory services. Asset management and operational programs improvement. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management. About StrategyDriven.

Energy 57

Energy Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Compliance 57

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

Chief Executive Officer 50

Chief Executive Officer Execution Operations Asset Management 50

Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

In today’s fast-paced world, new technologies change industries overnight. million around the concept and produced an infomercial aimed at the women’s fitness market. The product failed, largely because consumers found it too complicated to use, and because Alden had targeted too small a corner of the fitness market.

Magazine 106

Magazine Bottom-up Self-aware Marketing 106

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 I recently spoke to John about his research.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

Some commentators felt the move to New Coke was a marketing gimmick to regenerate interest and sales in the brand after sales erosion due to the “Pepsi Challenge” taste test campaign. Similarly, Philip Morris renamed itself Altria when it was trying to position the company more as a food marketer and less as a tobacco company.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

As the IT industry continues to evolve, the question becomes more relevant: how does one build an IT organization that is both impactful and lasting? Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries.

Organization 58

Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

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

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.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Dig hard into your operation to see what’s wrong. You know the US market well, as do your people, because it is your only market, even though you are pretty sure your product could be applied internationally. But be sure he is an expert in your particular industry. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Price 92

Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 92

Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . Much of their business relies on what they call “relationship marketing.” every afternoon to work. . Keeping Clarity.

Training 71

Training Mission Statement Open-book Positioning 71

Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2014

Get out from behind the computer and meet other firms across industries. Marketing & Sales American Express American Express OPEN American Express OPEN for Government Contracts government contracting Lourdes Martin-Rosa marketing and sales strategydriven' Don’t be afraid of the competition. Drill or hole?

Open-book 58

Open-book Budgeting Proposal Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Technology has prompted tremendous change in the advertising industry—change that would have been inconceivable even a decade ago. People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers.

Advertising 9

Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan. In the U.S.

Ohno 50

Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering. How the stock market responds. New information is provided to the market on the announcement date, as opposed to the issue date.

Bond 10

Bond Company Long-term Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

After an unprecedented decade of growth, analysts wrote off 2013 as a year to forget for Apple. But in our view, Apple faces a deeper problem: the industries most susceptible to its unique disruptive formula are just too small to meet its growth needs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation.

Industry 9

Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. ” Another benefit is that the sensors are located at a distance and are detached from the monitored equipment so do not interfere with on-going operations or processes. Sponsor Content Insight from GE.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

The pattern that simple, convenient, low-priced solutions would grow from humble beginnings to create and transform industries had not yet been identified. When a disruptive idea is first born, typically far away from the market's mainstream. What disruptive innovations are set to take similarly big strides in 2013?

Trends 8

Trends Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Trends Brand 8

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

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Finally, operating conditions differ significantly within the country groups.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. The fight for new recruits is intense — not just in the tech sector, but across all industries. ” message and think, Hey, maybe it’s time for a change. What’s the trick?

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Forbes’s mathematical approach, which calculates an “Innovation Premium” baked into a stock price, suffers from market capriciousness. Both trace their success to bringing new business models to their respective markets. Amazon continues to be the world’s best example of a serial business model innovator.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013.

Restructuring 11

Restructuring Fixed Costs Consensus Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

With a business model of at-cost hardware and software up-selling, it recently raised its 2013 sales targets from 15 million smartphones to 20 million, and is now gazing abroad. The “jobs-to-be-done” theory articulates the gap between how producers view and market a product and how customers actually use it.

Marketing 8

Marketing B2B Levitt Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Emerging market diaspora populations have been on the rise, thanks to the continued march of globalization, and today’s diaspora communities are better connected with their homelands than ever before. Emerging markets and their indigenous companies should see this as an opportunity to boost their competitiveness.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Metrics Incentives 8