The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ever since Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne published their paper on the potential for jobs to be automated in 2013, a groundswell of concern has emerged about the impact of the various technologies of the 4th industrial revolution might have on the jobs market. Missing out.

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Osborne Report Marketing Technology 106

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results. Women lean in The other big story in the 2013 Thinkers50 was the increased number of women featured.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 250

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises LLC and Xen Wireless form StrategyDriven Analytics to provide utility industry executives and managers with asset management program benchmarking data supporting operational and investment decisions and fleet and individual plant performance assessments. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Wireless Benchmarking Asset Management Industry 58

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. General Business'

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Decentralization Organizational Behavior Short-term Public Relations 284

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2014

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. A world in flux, now : And it is happening, right now, to businesses in almost every industry, everywhere in the world.

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Competitive Advantage Resistance Business Model Consensus 267

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. These have coincided with a clear desire from the government to try and lead the 4th industrial revolution.

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Automotive Banking Industry Information Technology 75

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.

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Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 78

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is a wonderful and unique technology that can transform our lives as well as business ideas. Men are currently dominating the AI industry and 71% of new applicants in this field are male…. AI continues to be a growing source of startups and as technology evolves it will continue to grow. Come on ladies!

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Banking GDP Insurance Globalization 74

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 10, 2013

Finding the Next Steve Jobs: How to Find, Hire, Keep and Nurture Creative Talent Nolan Bushnell with Gene Stone netminds (2013) Ignore the title and focus on the wealth of information, insights, and wisdom Bushnell provides Nolan Bushnell is a technology pioneer, entrepreneur and engineer.

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Review Books Creativity Engineering 85

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Amar told me in 2013 that some factors have changed since he first published his findings, for example, access to capital is more widespread through crowd-funding, along with a mainstream popularization of entrepreneurship and rise of a global startup ecosystem. You don’t have to be Bezos or Branson, Einstein or Jobs. 40% of Inc.

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Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 257

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

On Thursday, November 7 from 1:30 to 2:45 pm EST, Herrmann International CEO Ann Herrmann-Nehdi will be part of a technology panel at the 2013 Americas NeuroLeadership Summit in Washington, DC, discussing how our understanding of the brain can provide new possibilities for improving leadership and organizational performance.

Human Capital 70

Human Capital Brainstorming Human Resources Technology 70

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 20, 2013

This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. 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. His advice?

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Books Storytelling Delegation Tactics 56

HR Digest

AUGUST 24, 2023

The impact of the labor shortage is being felt in many industries, including agriculture, construction, and healthcare. Japan, known for its technological advancements and economic prowess, is facing a significant challenge – a labor shortage. What can Japan do to solve its labor crisis?

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Crisis Chemicals Policies Trends 52

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. 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.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Succession Self-aware Storytelling 65

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2012

What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? More organizations will study their top salespeople in 2013 to understand how they formulate their winning account strategies based upon customer politics, evaluator psychology, and the human nature of executive decision makers that are unique to winning every account.

Trends 17

Trends Analysis Politics Technology 17

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? Over the past three decades, the U.S.

Payback Period 50

Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. 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.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category. 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.

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. If your knowledge-based industry hasn’t been disrupted yet, get ready. Technology offers real hope for Africa’s economic future.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 19

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The

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Quality Health Care Case Study Education 70

HR Digest

MAY 1, 2019

The contribution of technology in improving customer experience is well documented, but little has been done in using it for enriching workplace experiences. Diane Gherson is a trailblazer when it comes to introducing agile technologies in the gamut of Human Resources. Digital technologies forced-disruption of all that.

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Agility Self-aware Innovation Human Resources 90

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Over the past two decades, technology has advanced exponentially; and with that burgeoning growth, IT organizations have seen tremendous expansion. 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?

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

By 2003, not all industrial companies were fully committed to accommodating their organizations to new tools and following the principles described in Experimentation Matters. For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. ” -Stefan Thomke.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Deming Institute

MAY 26, 2016

Kentaro Toyama, Associate Professor, University of Michigan – School of Information and Author of ”Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology”. Related: The W. 2014 conference presentation).

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Deming Conference P&L Seminar 28

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Retooled industrial-age machinery sits alongside robotic-manufacturing equipment. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. We call this super-sector “advanced industries.”

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Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013, Professor at INSEAD, best-selling author Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Prakash Venkataraman – Senior consultant executive development LinkedIn, coach, facilitator, leadership development expert. Feyzi Fatehi – Inc.

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Disruptive Innovation Executive Coaching Human Resources CEO 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

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. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. Companies often see the disruptive forces affecting their industry.

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

With a market size of $8 billion in 2013 Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) is becoming big business. million as of 2013. The MMOG that epitomizes the birth of this new industry is perhaps League of Legends (LoL). LoL’s 2013 World Championship garnered online viewership of 32 million on Twitch.tv

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Industry Sports Advertising Strategy 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. can be summoned in all sorts of industries and all walks of life, if leaders can reimagine what’s possible in their fields.

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Fortunately, companies are becoming more aware that a data integrity insurance system is a necessity and are implementing new technologies into their business processes in order to safeguard against a data breach. Reports, customer transactions, and revenues can all be affected as a result of bad data.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

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 quickly became the largest music retailer in the U.S.

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Industry Wireless Advertising Content 9

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. 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. In the U.S. All rights reserved.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

In today’s fast-paced world, new technologies change industries overnight. Copyright © 2013 Mark Divine, author of The Way of the Seal: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed. A New York native, she leads a team of content professionals from her home near Baltimore, Maryland. What Can Leaders Learn From Tim Tebow.

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Magazine Bottom-up Self-aware Marketing 106

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. When you scan for innovations, it is imperative that you look beyond what you see as your industry. Max also oversaw the TW:IN trend spotter network until 2013, hosting meetups everywhere from Johannesburg to Manila.

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Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

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.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265