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 73

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. This was the context when on Christmas day 2013, the then designated Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa offered me the aforementioned thankless and non-lucrative opportunity. Turbulence.

How To 50

How To Chief Information Officer Tourism Politics 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Love it or hate it, office politics is an inevitable part of organizational life. Many people associate political behavior with backstabbing and manipulation — but there is a constructive side to being politically savvy. AnthonyRosenberg/Getty Images. Recent research does not support this idea.

Politics 8

Politics Cooper Mentor Diversity 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Too often, startup CEOs cling to old business models as their reason for success, when in reality it was their innovation and risk-taking that helped them succeed in the first place. Bobby Campbell is a successful entrepreneur with a deep understanding of how to monetize emerging digital markets. About the Author.

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Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

There is a level of sincerity and empathy that underlies these expressions of gratitude—even when there may be little understanding of the soldier’s true reasons for joining the military, disagreement with political or national policy, or a lack of agreement as to the reasons for military action in the first place.

Emotional Intelligence 150

Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2013

These are just my observations and successes based on the past four years of my participation. Insincere politeness and phony thanks makes you sound like a bad flight attendant, reading from a script, into a bad microphone, behind a wall. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Followers – 60,580. But should.

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Open-book Follow-up Customer Loyalty Reputation 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. We are not the political party we vote for. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. The Emerging Strategy of Innovative Service. We are not the company we work for.

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Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Witness the grassroots political movements that are increasingly shaking up "stable" political regimes around the world. In this environment, we must re-examine the basic assumptions that drove our business success in the past, starting with the most basic question of all: why do we even come together in institutions such as firms?

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. Zimbabwe’s largest telecommunication company Econet Wireless has found success with its online payment platform that helps Zimbabweans manage the challenges of its multi-currency system.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber built up staff, procedures, and software systems whose purpose was to enable and mobilize passengers and drivers to lobby regulators and legislators — creating political disaster for anyone who questioned Uber’s approach. But as Lyft began offering cheaper service with regular cars, Uber had to respond.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. He highlights the consequences of the well-intentioned but damaging approaches we sometimes take to prepare our kids for success in life. A S LEADERS we must learn and grow. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. kevin phillips/Getty Images. As a group, the largest U.S. Policy can help through measures like capital access programs, business accelerators, or tax incentives. But the future trajectory of U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. The first priority must be a renewed commitment to innovation. But just as U.S.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Innovation and change.

Innovation 8

Innovation Policies Technology Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Let’s borrow some language from political philosophy and think in terms of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. They’ve missed almost every technological breakthrough of the past decade — and yet they earned $237 billion in operating income from 2001 to 2013 working off a strategy that was in place in the mid-1990s.

Sull 10

Sull Competitive Advantage Porter Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Though many would call that decade NASA’s golden age, we’d argue that NASA’s innovation and influence is even greater today. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration.

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Budgeting Technology Innovation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Throughout the world, it has become a proxy for success and for failure. government released its revised estimate for GDP for the last three months of 2013. Economy Government Innovation' No single number has become more central to society in the past 50 years than GDP — Gross Domestic Product. This past Friday, the U.S.

GDP 8

GDP Education Industry Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After two decades of failed efforts to spur innovation and competition in Europe’s lagging communications sector, the European Commission has promised “an ambitious overhaul” next year as part of its far-reaching Digital Single Market initiative. As a result, the U.S. based, with the rest coming from China.

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Price How To Policies Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. Marketers, credit card companies, banks, local government agencies, political campaigns, and many others can harness SVPAs to both deliver critical information and to better read and understand constituents. Innovation Internet'

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Like Silicon Valley, Singapore has strong research institutions and limited enforcement of noncompete clauses, a condition that academics now suggest can be a major driver of innovation. Like Israel, Singapore is small, with limited natural resources, which means economic growth requires innovative macroeconomic approaches.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Venture Capitalist Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Most Americans — and both political parties — have come around to the view that attracting skilled immigrants is good for the U.S. A strong and growing body of research shows that diversity on teams — especially at the leadership and decision-making levels — drives greater marketplace innovation and profitability.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Competitive Intelligence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

But the cure to the pathologies of past-sickness does not lie in the equally romanticized vision of modernization and innovation we have been offered for the last 40 years — something that might be called future nostalgia , or modernization-sickness.

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Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In a mini political tipping point, six Republican senators publicly supported an extension to the wind production tax credit in the U.S. PepsiCo has had great success with the method , finding ways to reduce cost and risk for key brands, but execs wanted to apply the tool across thousands of products. The share of U.S.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

The successful ones have, at least. Having navigated globalization and rapid technological change, businesses may be scuppered by the social and political responses to them. When the public and politicians see businesses as agents or enemies of social policy, businesses cannot avoid becoming political. Donald Trump won the U.S.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

These information services, the thinking went, were better left free to innovate and compete largely exempt from FCC regulation. There is widespread agreement among economists that the current open, modular nature of the Internet has stimulated innovation and growth. An open Internet does seem like a good thing.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Open-book Content Information 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

public school classroom, he approached the task with the mentality of a successful serial entrepreneur. Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world. Communications.

System 8

System Entrepreneur Telecommunications Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Antitrust came to represent the Magna Carta of free enterprise – it was seen as the key to preserving economic and political freedom. The competition ideal was the belief, in line with democratic principles, in dispersing economic and political power from the hands of a few, to foster greater opportunities to compete, improve, and win.

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Policies Politics Stephenson Industry 8