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. go over relatively old ground one more time.

Technology 64

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 64

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Focus obsessively on the short run. Define long term ‘something we can focus on once the basics are in place.’ Try to join as many steering committees as possible, but avoid taking on responsibility as a sponsor or project manager. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Never take the blame.

Strategy 59

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Morning greetings arose from the Captains at the door to my office, both of whom had dutifully pre-prepared their tasks for the morning so they could pre-empt the short-term needs before the staff meeting that would begin within the next half-hour.

Emotional Intelligence 150

Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Talk about some of the ideas that kind of led you both to wanting to write this book, and then we’ll get into what this term big bang disruption means. I’ve really enjoyed that for this book. LARRY: Sure. Thank you, by the way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! presents High Performing Organizations Manage Change Well. Regardless of the talent management and retention strategies you employ, this post shares three tips that will help you build a foundation of trust with your top performers.”. Karin Hurt.

Leadership Development 249

Leadership Development Development Leadership Lewin 249

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

But because emotional communities are held together as much by the likes as by the dislikes of members, they can be unpredictable and difficult to manage. Emotional communities will emerge in organizations, whether management likes it or not, and will have a life of their own.

Innovation 8

Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

However, under-investing in marketing is short-sighted, and this article will explain how “smart marketing” can be a key driver of business growth. In short, it works. Seek to send out a press release once a month (as a long term goal). Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. So how does it work?

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

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. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In August 2013, Icahn bought more than $1 billion worth of Apple shares. But with his open letter to Cook, Icahn has let the public know once again that however much Apple buys back, he feels it has the current cash, borrowing capacity, and long-term profit prospects to do much, much more. trillion on dividends (35% of net income).

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. The role of management can be broadly thought of as the processes that tie these components together to produce value. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage? Most of these benefits have been achieved.

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. But managers make it harder when they think about it only as radical industry reinvention. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. Why is that?

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2006, they hired an experienced president to manage their rapidly growing business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1981, Peter Drucker delivered a lecture at New York University titled “ Managing the Increasing Complexity of Large Organizations.” What is value to the customer,” Drucker wrote in his 1999 book Management Challenges for the 21st Century , “is always something quite different from what is value or quality to the supplier.”.

Drucker 9

Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

in 2013 to 3.7 In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. While Welch bequeathed a strong pension plan to GE, he also left the company with a dubious legacy of what is now called earnings management. The average size of U.S.

Committee 8

Committee Welch Finance Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

But we recognize that, in many businesses, resources are often allocated according to short-term, bottom-line pressures. From 1993 to 2013 the cattle herd in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest — covering most of country’s northern region — expanded by nearly 200%, to more than 60 million head.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. For example, when P&G was making its digital push in 2012 and 2013, it was already well ahead of most companies—and perhaps all of them—in the consumer products industry.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

The English grandmaster Nigel Short recently declared that computers are stripping chess of its mystery; by crunching reams of data, computers can deconstruct once-obscure board positions in a matter of seconds and reveal the optimal move. As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Take my company, athenahealth.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Are you in a broken professional relationship — with a manager, coworker, or employee — hoping the other person assumes blame and fixes the issue? Many managers perceive them as needing guidance, structure, and constant feedback. Many of us were conflating the two terms: fault and responsibility. Sales dropped 15%.

Short-term 9

Short-term Case Study Learning-by-Doing Productivity 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That sounds easy, but the bigger you get, the harder that is to manage. I''d need a standing army of translators to manage now, and my plan involves adding many more countries. That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Managers in these companies understand that agile, fast, and lean strategies require that they think in new ways about accessing and leveraging key strategic talent and filling critical gaps in strategic capabilities. ” Most managers would never dream of treating externals like internals. Internal-external competition.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

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. Thus, most groupings may be valid only in the short run. Country groupings tend to conceal more about a nation’s growth than they reveal.

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

But as good managers have discovered in so many realms of human need, pure philanthropy is not the only means for addressing social challenges. Where a business has engaged in “upstream” education, it has usually limited its involvement to short-term placements or CSR programs in the developing world.

GDP 8

GDP Education Finance Globalization 8

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. What went wrong?

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. DJI’s first hit product was the Phantom in 2013, and ever since, DJI has introduced new products at a rapid-fire pace.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

My business would be to advise SME on how to be sustainable in the long term applying quality principles right from the very beginning. The result is that only a small portion of startups survive in the long term. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A. Join the Conversation.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. Improving the transition to long-term acute care rehab.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Hiring managers often view newcomers to their organizations as not only long-term assets but also short-term burdens: people who need to be inducted, trained, and given lighter loads as they get up to speed, inevitably slowing everyone else down. Take Jeff, an IT manager at the financial services firm Vanguard.

Team 12

Team Learning Curve Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In 2013, Ashley Stewart was on the brink of bankruptcy — its second in a little over three years. The fast-turning nature of the company’s inventory and the constant specter of insolvency undermined long-term investments and strategic planning. In short, I felt Ashley Stewart stood for kindness and embodied community.

Fashion 8

Fashion Operations Brand Retail 8