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

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Half the stocks in the market are now yielding more than fixed income. innovative alternatives.

Innovation 17

Innovation Trends Human Capital Venture Funding 17

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

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

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.’ Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Never take the blame.

Strategy 58

Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. As the underwriting weaknesses of subprime portfolios became known, banks stopped lending to each other, paralyzing credit markets. Rockefeller and others to pony up enough cash to stabilize the markets.

Banking 50

Banking Crisis Morale System 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2014

As someone who’s been involved in marketing breakthrough innovations, I’m convinced Google’s approach is the right one. Google is focused on possibility rather than profitability — a mindset that’s necessary to create innovations that transform categories. billion in net sales from 2008-2013. The derision is misplaced.

Innovation 9

Innovation Short-term Long-term Brand 9

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

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. Thus, most groupings may be valid only in the short run. Is that smart?

Marketing 8

Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 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.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Innovation Execution Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

But that will not in any way deter hedge-fund activists from demanding that companies do stock buybacks so that they can time their stock sales to take advantage of short-term, buyback-induced, stock-price boosts. A prime example is Carl Icahn, who began to accumulate his multibillion-dollar stake in Apple in August 2013.

Proposal 8

Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

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 20, 2014

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. So allow me.

Pharmaceuticals 10

Pharmaceuticals Banking Chemicals Trends 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

While every other player in the electric car space was focused on innovating individual pieces — vehicles, batteries, charge spots — Better Place''s strategy was unique in innovating the larger puzzle to deliver an affordable drive-anywhere, anytime solution. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market).

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

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

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. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

But with robust growth rates and economies unburdened by legacy structures of the last century, Africans can innovate beyond what others are doing. The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. Innovating away from past exclusion.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 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. Moreover, the innovations lying at the heart of the unicorns’ success stories are digital innovations. Financed by VC firms.

Company 8

Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Business model innovation is hard. 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. Many customers asked for insurance not on a yearly basis but for very short periods for very specific activities.

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

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

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. Therefore, no managers should view digital — or any other major technological innovation — as their sure salvation. With innovative information technology, however, executives sometimes lose their rational decision approaches.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 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

AUGUST 11, 2014

In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. job growth and economic security.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Short of any singing, dancing, and costume changes, this sequence could have been taken from Bollywood, a movie industry widely known for its fantastical flights of fancy. Public policy for rooting out corruption calls for a systemic approach, with carrots and sticks to motivate cultural, institutional, and behavioral change in the long term.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Only a small percentage came up with anything that was truly innovative. This will lead to new business models, new processes, more meaningful business interactions, innovation, improved and faster decision making, and a more agile organization. What does it mean to view innovation as the only competitive advantage?

CIO 8

CIO Competitive Advantage Agility Hamel 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. of the world market, and the second-largest beef producer and consumer. These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. According to Barron's and others, China has already begun implementing its ambitious plan to increase installations.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The number of companies targeted by activist hedge funds has increased dramatically since then, to more than 200 in 2013. In a separate paper , two of the same researchers found that firms targeted by activists also became more innovative, despite spending less on R&D.). eBay is a recent example.

Hedge 8

Hedge Finance Short-term Document 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. Think BlackBerry, for example.

Drucker 9

Drucker Bottom-up Rogers Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

Nike is often praised for their innovative brand campaigns and grassroots community development via running clubs. Further, the forum ought to be an opportunity for Nike to gather the customer feedback that fosters product improvements, shorter product development cycles, improved marketing strategies, and new distribution channels.

Brand 8

Brand Content Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For example, in one of the experiments, participants read a short description of a 35-year-old man named Jeff. 2013 ) measuring the degree to which people view society as mobile and believe that work leads to success (e.g., “Hard work brings success in the long run,” “People have a chance to escape poverty”).

Brand 8

Brand Participative Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

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. By mid-2013, the company was chugging along at a $200 million annual revenue rate.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

So while two of the three judges (the Clinton appointees) agreed that the FCC had the right to regulate broadband providers’ relationships with content providers (the FCC term is “edge providers”) even if it classified broadband as an information service, they didn’t think the agency had done it correctly up to now.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

That''s fine for short bursts of communication, but would you trust a more complex discussion to the software? Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? Try thinking about this in terms of your own global business efforts. out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

Globalization 8

Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 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. In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. • Adaptive: Be fast.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

You’d have this beta with the market, so you have the riskless rate plus beta times the equity premium. A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.].

CAPM 8

CAPM Discount Price Finance 8