The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation.

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 116

HR Digest

AUGUST 24, 2023

In 2013, Japan raised the retirement age from 60 to 65, allowing employees to continue working if they choose to do so. France, on the other hand, is grappling with the resistance to raising the retirement age but recognizes the need to address the financial strain caused by an aging population.

Crisis 52

Crisis Chemicals Policies Trends 52

Lead from Within

OCTOBER 29, 2013

For leaders, language is a vehicle for making decisions, resolving disputes, enacting practices, measuring results, and sharing innovation and creativity. Open will means surrendering to chance, allowing what may come to emerge without resistance. © 2013 Lolly Daskal. When we have credibility, we are trusted.To

Leadership 167

Leadership Restructuring Workshop Ethics 167

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Why do many business leaders resist it? The risk, of course, is that HiPPOs push bad ideas, either through status or persuasion, and resist experiments that prove them wrong. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. ” -Stefan Thomke.

Power 95

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

Granted, pretty packaging isn’t going to close a deal, but being up on graphic/design trends in print and online let perspective customers know that you’re in year 2013, and paying attention. Which of course is where it gets tricky. It’s not by lowering your pricing or throwing in extra products or services.

Public Relations 255

Public Relations Media PR Bottom-up 255

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 27, 2014

In those moments, it’s easy for us to resist the forces of change, insisting on sticking to what we know. This approach is something we often read about in terms of innovation – of how we can develop a new product or service offering by running various experiments or pilot projects to test the viability of these new ideas.

Leadership 278

Leadership How To Stage-Gate Learning-by-Doing 278

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They then resist any change, even positive change that requires them to do something new or different. Instead of learning, growing, and expanding their envelope of possibilities, they dig in their heels, justify and rationalize their resistance to change, and often sabotage the change efforts of others. Feeling Unable to Change.

Resistance 50

Resistance Business Model Learning-by-Doing Quality 50

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For instance, in 2013 the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued guidance on the development of the robotics industry, with this then supplemented by the Made in China 2025 program, which was launched in 2015. Unwarranted fears.

Automotive 79

Automotive Banking Industry Information Technology 79

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

moments that precede unique discoveries or innovations.” In those moments, it’s easy for us to resist the forces of change, insisting on sticking to what we know. Read more on this leadership insight here: How Vacation Time Can Make You A Better Leader.

Leadership 277

Leadership Learning-by-Doing Wiseman Long-term 277

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

But after meeting internal resistance, we integrated elements of going tribal to create a new company, Division-D. 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. Consider leaving a comment!

Business Model 73

Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 8, 2014

In fact, there’s almost a universal resistance to long-term thinking in many organizations because we’re so focused on today’s problems: Are we making our numbers? Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Did the products get shipped? Did we resolve the customer issue? FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Strategic Planning How To Planning Competitive Advantage 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

A case study we just published on Samsung’s European innovation team offers some helpful insights. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. Rather, it is to position themselves to create disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. All that is true, or least should be so, but companies are also forever having to reinvent themselves — IBM, Nucor, and Wipro bear only the faintest resemblance to their founding forms — and boards ought to be at the forefront of those transformations, not rearguard or resistant.

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Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

Even when companies do want to expand their product offerings, internal preparation and sequencing can matter more than the innovation itself. Back in 2013, PayPal had acquired the parent company of Venmo, the mobile app that enables people to transfer money even without bank accounts.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2013 study published in the Journal of Leadership Studies finds that men and women see themselves as equal in relation to their political abilities. Specifically, research published in the British Journal of Management in 2013 finds that women view organizational politics as an expression of masculine culture.

Politics 8

Politics Cooper Mentor Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

He had recently commented on a discussion on GHDonline.org regarding critical gaps in the diagnosis and treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis. The team launched GHDonline in June 2008 with public communities in tuberculosis-infection control, drug-resistant tuberculosis, adherence and retention, and health information technology.

Globalization 9

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. China’s new leaders face unprecedented challenges in terms of the complexity of policy measures and their implementation.

Policies 8

Policies Uncertainty Long-term Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Following an entrepreneurial strategy ultimately means that managers and employees of a firm act more proactively and innovatively, and they take more risks — all which is known to drive growth and increase a firm’s advantage against competitors. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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CEO Letter Retail Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

Would changing our ways be a panacea for the 80% of us smartphone users ages 18–44 who, a 2013 study revealed, check our phones upon waking, even before brushing our teeth? My new research-based innovation, then, is to always do email in the morning.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Webinar Fashion Energy 8

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. With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. The first step was to hire someone to run it.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

When it comes to innovation in cities, people often think of building clusters and innovation districts to attract new businesses and shift policies to favor entrepreneurship. Innovation in this case, and many others, requires invention. City innovators have to move fast before it does. Let me explain. But that took time.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2013

Beginning May 12, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. Arrogance breeds resistance; even if you really do have all the right answers, you need to bring people along with you. And preparation is an essential prerequisite for innovation. For, as Blaise Pascal said, "Chance favors the prepared mind.".

Self-aware 13

Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Advice Career 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

While these two facts are seemingly unrelated, an innovative program connects them in a meaningful way. I joined the inaugural class of the GSTW program at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in February 2013, where I, along with ten fellow veterans, received accelerated skills training in core manufacturing skillsets.

Skills 8

Skills Company Class Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Technological innovations have led to round-the-clock work schedules and mounting expectations. recommends blocking out time to work away from email, programming your phone to only ring for select colleagues, and resisting emails first thing in the morning until you’ve achieved at least one important task.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Tips Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting July 1st — the beginning of the company's fiscal year 2013 — the software giant will charge all of its 100-plus global offices and datacenters a fee for every ton of carbon they produce (mostly from plugging into the electric grid, so-called "indirect" emissions). We should put a price on carbon across the entire economy.

Price 13

Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

By identifying opportunities to fundamentally change how administrative services were delivered, the senior executives led by example and communicated a willingness to do their part in cutting costs by focusing on their own departments first – a messaging that helped dampen organizational resistance to change. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Frontline caregivers often react to new data-collecting technologies with caution and resistance. The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., Marys during the fourth quarter of 2015.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

We’ve used this data for public-health projects such as tracking the impact of the Affordable Care Act in practices , monitoring the spread of influenza, surfacing novel insights about pediatric mental health , and synthesizing the first national map of antibiotic resistance.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Short-term Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. How could this be?, Digital marketing provides targeted reach and measurable impact.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Resulting from inflexible conditions, obsolete policies-procedures, procrastination, attitude, resistance to innovation, failure to change. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Doing Things as We Always Have. Those We Bring Upon Ourselves. Ignore small problems when they occur. Consider leaving a comment!

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. I recently spoke to John about his research.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

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. It will surely meet resistance.

Software 8

Software CIO Early Adopters Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2013

There''s no question that Amazon''s innovation went right for the jugular of any volume- and price-focused retailer selling commodity goods like consumer electronics and household wares. But innovative retailers are responding to this threat by turning "showrooming" to their own advantage. Bring your brand to your customers.

Retail 8

Retail Reis Merchandising Download 8

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. For decades now, every major environmental regulation has met significant resistance from the industries most affected.

Cost 10

Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

Alarm waned toward the end of the 19th century, as experts came to believe that “modern industry” and “rapid communications” were making people more open to change and hence more resistant to the disease.

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Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 9