Mills Scofield

JANUARY 12, 2013

My friend, Doug Sundheim’s new book, Taking Smart Risks , is an early winner for 2013 Must Reads. We rarely look at the risk of NOT doing, of NOT innovating, of NOT trying. I see this everyday in my work – organizations that see innovation as a risk instead of seeing not innovating as a bigger risk.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

According to the October 2013 Harvard Business Review, the major obstacles to business model innovation are fear and uncertainty. Eighty percent of corporate executives rank business model innovation ahead of the development of new products and services in terms of importance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Innovation, Especially the Disruptive Kind, Seemed as Difficult as Ever. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate. Maxwell Wessel. James Allworth.

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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. Unregulated and a relatively new innovation, trusts were the ‘ toxic assets ‘ of the 1907 crises. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. earlier this month.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Over the years, innovations in distribution, media, and technology have enabled buyers to use non-sales force channels for various steps of their buying journey. Innovation eliminated certain responsibilities for salespeople; yet at the same time, new responsibilities emerged, and entirely new kinds of companies and industries formed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. But Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is using the Internet of Things to resolve the uncertainty. In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. But Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is using the Internet of Things to resolve the uncertainty. In 2013, the company released a service called Virtual Technician to help existing drivers while also enabling new business models and revenue streams.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

The pace of change is accelerating and the degree of uncertainty increasing. Drucker didn''t quite frame it in these terms, but perhaps we need to expand our focus on innovation beyond the narrow frame of technology and product innovation. Business education Disruptive innovation Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

So you have to innovate, do things better, and customer service becomes more important. 82% of the CEOs in the survey said they were going to spend time changing their customer strategies in 2013. One thing is identifying the customer and what product offerings you want to make — there, the innovation piece is really important.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 6, 2022

The study was linked to the health of the economy and took place in Greece during the two major economic recessions experienced in 2013/14 and 2018/19. The figure for 2013/14 was 5.7%, however, and lept to 7.1% “Prejudices against minorities might rise during periods of economic uncertainty,” the researchers explain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

During the summer of 2014 alone $3 billion poured into India’s e-commerce sector, where, in addition to local innovators like Flipkart and Snapdeal, there are nearly 200 digital commerce startups flush with private investment and venture capital funds. Even Amazon localized its approach in India to offer COD as a service.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

In my research on innovators, I like to draw the distinction between “path finders” and “path creators.” He is the originator of the “social streets” movement now spreading across Italy, so the innovation he created literally involves a path: the street in which he and his family live in Bologna.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

In the European Union, government VCs allocated €3,621,000,000 to finance innovation and growth in small and medium-size businesses from 2007 to 2013. Male entrepreneurs were commonly described as being assertive, innovative, competent, experienced, knowledgeable, and having established networks.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

After a general election that saw an Islamist-led coalition rise to power, the country witnessed two political assassinations in February and July 2013. 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.

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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. The policy environment will provoke considerable uncertainty in the business environment in China in the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

and Europe far less vulnerable to disruptive innovators, even though their e-payment technologies may in some cases be clunky and unreliable. Circle, founded in 2013, provided a peer-to-peer payment system using bitcoin. This made traditional banks in the U.S. That’s just what two startups did.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

More than ever, it’s imperative that all employees make innovation a priority, not just the R&D staff or the “new products” team. There are clearly people who are more talented innovators than the rest of us,” he acknowledged. But each person in the organization, from top to bottom, needs to adopt an innovative mindset.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Although the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Bill of 2013 — introduced four weeks ago by a bipartisan group of eight U.S. That will create uncertainty, open the floodgates to litigation, and force companies to fill jobs rather than seek talent.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Innovation in Cities. But long before the city is completely underwater, chaos will begin.” I doubt it. How can I be so optimistic? Insight Center.

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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.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 9, 2014

September 11, 2013. The two industries least likely to add people are those two that are most affected by uncertainty and regulation—financials and health care. © Copyright 1998-2013 by The Herman Group of Companies, Inc., Herman Trend Alert: Skills Shortages Worsening. billion in economic activity and $3.7

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival. A focus on shareholder returns drives efficiency gains, but to get innovation and long-term success, an organization must delight its customers. This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

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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. Uncertainties could drag on for years. Companies who rely on innovative product design to separate themselves from their competitors must effectively manage these risks. Innovation Product development Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. In times of uncertainty, engaging leaders use higher purpose to keep people focused on their ability to shape the future of the organization. Or are they? Focus on a higher purpose. Leave no one behind.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Many women must face a harsh reality: The cost of growing their career in financial services outweighs the potential benefits, taking into account the greater uncertainty and obstacles they face. For the sake of profits, innovation, and fairness, financial services firms must actively seek to change their corporate cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2013

Yet, just as the Wall Street Journal reported on January 6, 2013, partners who aren't bringing in business are themselves being let go. Becoming a partner at a major firm used to be a guaranteed job for life, something like being a tenured professor.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

What traditional investors don’t like about any of this is the regulatory uncertainty; the high valuations and over-capitalization; the lack of control over financials, strategy, and operations; and the lack of business use-cases. It’s now worth approximately $1,1200 per bitcoin.

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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. It remains something that people turn to in times of financial uncertainty such as now. Then again, lots of important financial innovations start out like that. Economy Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Perhaps it is overlooked because clinicians are so busy focusing on the technical details of care, or perhaps it is due to their uncertainty about how to respond. Lee’s essay “The Word that Shall Not Be Spoken” in the November 7, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.). Leading Health Care Innovation. See Thomas H.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did. Instead what he says is let’s have financial innovation that is actually helpful. His vision of financial innovation is that by designing the right instruments, you could help people be more rational, because you could focus their attention on the things that matter.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

We must pay attention to the innovation bubbling up in our own organizations, and work to spread it further – not try to transplant what has grown up elsewhere, in very different contexts. This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

This uncertainty calls for political leadership. Between 1993-2013, the value of U.S. Most economists believe that technology, innovation, and consumer tastes are more significant sources of change than is trade. The United States should initiate a competition in policy innovation to help people work. manufacturing?

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