The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Back in 2013, Oxford researchers Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne predicted that 47% of jobs would be automated within a decade. Such statistics have prompted some researchers to propose an optimum working time , from a productivity perspective at least.

Osborne 74

Osborne Long-term Proposal Technology 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Innovators such as Elon Musk and Jony Ive have become household names. ” Note that in order to feel open and confident enough to innovate, you have to ensure you aren’t dwelling too much on past failures or setbacks. For your best ideas, marshal the evidence and create a proposal backed by research and data.

Creativity 13

Creativity Forrester Proposal How To 13

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I proposed that we scrap our existing points-based attendance system and the requirements to attend. Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements , which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013.

Deming 46

Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. Average investor support for such proposals has reached a new high of 29%. Institutional investors are helping to drive these proposals.

Execution 11

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

It is one of the first products to launch out of Google X, the company’s research lab that aspires to “moonshot” innovations, and which is also developing a self-driving car. Some emphasize the importance of sticking to innovations adjacent to a firm’s core business. When Innovation Is Strategy. How Boards Can Innovate.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here’s what we’ve learned from three pioneering companies about how to identify, grow and retain leaders to meet today’s demands: Identify: Let them innovate. Both seek to create an environment where employees can pursue innovative business offerings to address problems that are personally meaningful.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Randy Schekman, whose first major grant was from the National Institutes of Health in 1978, said winning this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine made him reflect on how his original proposal might have fared in today’s depressed funding climate. “It Cuts to 2013 budget : $285 Million or 5%. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08

Health Care 8

Health Care Budgeting Pharmaceuticals Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. The Stanford Center for Internet and Society keeps an active list of laws proposed, passed, and defeated across the U.S.).

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

When venture capitalists (VCs) evaluate investment proposals, the language they use to describe the entrepreneurs who write them plays an important but often hidden role in shaping who is awarded funding and why. But it’s difficult to obtain VCs’ unvarnished comments, given that they are uttered behind closed doors.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Finance Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

My colleague Andy Hargadon noted this when he did an ethnography of the renowned innovation firm IDEO in the 1990s. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. BuildDirect encourages its people to propose imaginative, off-the-wall, and even downright weird ideas.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

During the presidential campaign, Americans will be bombarded with proposals to improve the U.S. These reforms should include increased regulations to promote price and quality transparency and payer innovations to introduce insurance plans with reference prices. All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

While we''re all familiar with the decline of Research in Motion, this oral history contains first-hand accounts of RIM''s glory days of innovation, followed by inglorious missteps. At most big companies, would-be innovators have to submit their proposals to review boards and then wait months for funding.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Data compiled for The New York Times by Glassdoor found that an average interview process in 2013 lasted 23 days versus an average of 12 days in 2009. The writer was asked to write a proposal, but wasn’t told that he was only one among many other people from whom they’d solicited proposals until midway through the process.

Management 8

Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

As part of the AIA, on March 16, 2013, the United States adopted a first-inventor-to-file regime. Typically, the launch of a new product design includes market research, independent testing, previews to select retailers and journalists, and discussions with suppliers about how to manufacture the proposed design.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Every organization needs strategic thinkers. My answer is always the same: You can’t have too many.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S. He has proposed reforms, such as tax breaks for mining firms and commercial farmers, aiming to assist export-oriented businesses and earn Zimbabwe much-need hard currency.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival. I''ll propose a few (and invite your additions in the comments): Communicate goals and let those doing the work self-organize. A focus on shareholder returns drives efficiency gains, but to get innovation and long-term success, an organization must delight its customers.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

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. 2) What is their proposed solution? Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

This is where the opportunity lies — in collaboration that includes the final approvers, embedding legal teams in the design and innovation process. Ironically, not including lawyers in the collaborative process perpetuates the idea that they smother innovation. Remind your company that there are risks to not innovating.

Innovation 8

Innovation Team Compliance Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

Innovation 11

Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. But by the end of 2013, I decided that I should teach by example, I had to be successful myself in my own business, and test my own theory in order to be convincing, so I did it. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

But eight months before completion, in August 2013, while presenting our expansion plan to the hospital’s board, we had an epiphany. If a team member could not articulate how a proposed change or an existing process benefited patients, it was not even considered. physician assistants) in the ED. Set the standard.

Health Care 8

Health Care Diversity Proposal Document 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , a 2013 dollar has one-tenth the purchasing power of the 1950 version. Bitcoin creation is thus a bit like Milton Friedman''s " k-percent rule ," which proposed that the money supply be made to grow automatically at a steady rate that averts both inflation and deflation.

Price 9

Price Constraint Real Estate GDP 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Lee’s essay “The Word that Shall Not Be Spoken” in the November 7, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation. E-mail us at healtheditors@hbr.org , and sign up to receive updates here. Fix the Handful of U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Quality Constraint System 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. The firm can innovate to address a tired industry business model or can recognize a megatrend before others see and act on it.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

For example, one of her key proposals is for shares to be held well beyond the current minimum period of one year before the profits from their sale are taxed as a capital gain. 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

APRIL 8, 2014

IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects. Given the success of the program in 2013, IBM’s CIO decided to invest $7 million to expand iFundIT in 2014.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

The witches are the rapid innovation in robotics and computing, slated to replace humans in performing increasingly sophisticated – i.e. “white collar” – tasks and so displace jobs across the employment spectrum. In the 21 st century, creating meaning and innovating will be democratized through technology.

Drucker 8

Drucker Technology Efficiency Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

This year, nearly 50% of those plans proposed using a for-profit model. According to a recent JPMorgan/GIIN report , impact investors invested nearly $11 billion across 4,900 deals in 2013, up 250% from 2011. And when we asked these entrepreneurs why, some of their reasons were just plain bad. They are not alone.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Choosing weaker environmental regulations actually makes our country less competitive and shows amazingly little faith in our business community to innovate. This law established the first major "cap and trade" system; it didn't restrict carbon dioxide as current iterations propose, but mandated reductions in acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide.

Cost 10

Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

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. in the fourth quarter of 2013. The immigration proposals on the table in Congress would do much to end this talent waste.

Diversity 8

Diversity Globalization Competitive Intelligence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

While concerns about conflicts of interest regarding President Trump’s business holdings have received a lot of attention, resulting in proposed legislation to end loopholes for the commander in chief , there has been much less discussion of another source of conflicting interests: the investments of members of Congress.

Conflict of Interest 8

Conflict of Interest Committee Collins Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Obama administration issued new standards to double the fuel economy of cars and trucks , and the National Resources Defense Council (an NGO) proposed using the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from power plants by 25%. Sustainability innovation opens up: Unilever, Heineken, and EMC ask the world for help. Five Questions For 2013.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10