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.

Technology 66

Technology Short-term Osborne Long-term 66

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1994 having ostensibly completed this successfully I was transferred to the mining side of the business, in iron ore, then aluminium – running the Aluminium Product Group, back to Iron Ore to run this Product Group and then in early 2013 I was promoted to Global CEO. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Curious Cat

MAY 20, 2015

Toyota’s belief in a strong management system contrasts with the self worship many USA executives practice. Even with a proposed 19% pay boost the top 21 executives at Toyota would get a combined US$14.9 million in the proposal for this year. Toyota proposed 1.52 billion yen ($14.9

Execution 40

Execution Proposal CIO CEO 40

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2016

My believe is based on the damage done to the management of our organizations due to the practice of vastly overpaying executives. Related: Business 901 Podcast: Two New Deadly Diseases for Business (2013) – Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. But that is just my opinion (not a position of The W.

Execution 45

Execution Deming System CEO 45

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

If businesses exist, as the father of Business Management Peter Drucker proposed, “to create and keep a customer,” then success is defined by the relationships you establish with your customers. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. CRM pioneer Mike Muhney, the co-creator of ACT!

Succession 57

Succession CRM Competitive Advantage Drucker 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I want to propose one: Instead of identifying goals, consider identifying areas of focus. It's simple: identify the things you want to spend your time doing — or the things that you and your manager decide are the most valuable use of your time — and spend your time doing those things. How do you do it?

Goal 20

Goal BHAG Wilde Class 20

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The typical request for proposal (RFP) has a bunch of standards about what has to be offered by the vendor, but far too little (or nothing) about what happens after the company takes ownership. This is not as difficult as it sounds, especially if you can apply internal pressure to senior management where your product will be used.

Proposal 58

Proposal Price Long-term Customer Loyalty 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

They learned and practiced how to communicate effectively and resolve conflicts, build teams to succeed, lead meetings that didn’t waste time, lead change that would stick, walk the talk with our organizational values, and finally how to engage and manage our talent. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Leadership 64

Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Thankfully, I also had some very good managers who still fell victim to conventional wisdom management ideas, such as a store manager creating special sales incentives and contests that seemed silly and unnecessary. I proposed that we scrap our existing points-based attendance system and the requirements to attend.

Deming 46

Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

That’s why many of them, particularly the largest ones, rely on full-time “talent management” professionals, who work in coordination with other parts of HR. These talent management people create processes for assessing leadership capabilities and set the strategy for upgrading leadership talent over time.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Delegation Management Document 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” Senior management at the new company knew him, his successful track record, and the companies he’d worked for. Slam dunk, right?

Management 8

Management Proposal CEO Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

So far in 2017, our firm, Semler Brossy, has identified 200 shareholder proposals on the environment among the Russell 3000 companies, already exceeding 2016’s total. Average investor support for such proposals has reached a new high of 29%. Four proposals received majority support, more than in the previous six years combined.

Execution 12

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. But manage it, and you become the industry leader.

Management 9

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

Amazon came under fire last week after its board opposed a shareholder proposal to increase the diversity of the board. But Amazon’s board recommended voting against the proposal. ” Currently, all 10 of the directors on Amazon’s board are white, and seven are men.

Diversity 11

Diversity Proposal Groupthink CEO 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If businesses are to continue using personal data to create value for themselves and for their customers, they will need to manage it as carefully as they would money, in four key ways. Similarly, trust erosion triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations of government surveillance in mid-2013 are estimated to have cost U.S.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development. Still others offer different deciding factors, like whether management is supportive. That is the question Glass is asking, and I hope in the end that is how it will be judged.”.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Though many HR managers would take exception to those findings, they do, overwhelmingly, want more of a strategic voice than they have now. A few months ago, Ram Charan proposed splitting HR into two parts: one to oversee leadership and organization, and one to handle administration. Hiring Human resources Talent management'

Human Capital 14

Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last year, for example, Russell 3000 companies received 144 shareholder proposals requesting action on social and environmental issues. Meanwhile, in a survey of 89 institutional investors by Callan , 43% of respondents said they incorporate sustainability factors into their investment decisions — up 21 percentage points from 2013.

Execution 10

Execution Incentives How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

s Co-operative Bank in June 2013. One section highlights the problems the bank encountered as it attempted to replace its core banking systems, a program that was cancelled in 2013 at a cost of almost £300 million. IT management Leadership Project management' billion capital shortfall announced by the U.K.’s hedge funds.

Banking 8

Banking Project Enterprise Architecture CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Employees are invited to propose ideas for new products and services that have a business case and promise to make a positive impact on society. Consider Barclays and two examples of intrapreneurs from programs run by the bank in 2013 and 2015. Hundreds of employees (the majority of them millennials) have applied in the two companies.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. Each 60-day stretch is followed by a short period of “white space,” including an offsite meeting where employees think strategically and propose new rocks. Entrepreneurship Strategy Time management' The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

While many managers and employees would probably say the power dynamics of a prison and a workplace are completely different, I have seen enough of both worlds to disagree. In one study of managers, the ability to identify harassment did not improve among those who received training. Power is power, wherever you are.

Policies 8

Policies Ethics Training Library 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They also have to contend with long-drawn-out internal processes to generate proposals, quotes, and contracts that can impact deal momentum. Salespeople complained that excessive updating of CRM systems, time consuming forms/reports required by management, and post-sales administration activities sapped valuable selling time in the field.

CRM 16

CRM Telecommunications Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

in 1999 with the dream of: “changing people’s lives with science and technology” — and then he delivered this in a big way, becoming probably the richest person in China, and the only Chinese member of Forbes ’ “top 12 most powerful entrepreneurs for 2013”. . For those operating in China, this is, indeed, a quandary.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 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

DECEMBER 6, 2013

For a time, having a BlackBerry was the ultimate status symbol in business, as well as the ultimate addiction: One former global account manager recalls a CTO referring to the blinking red light as "digital heroin." He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I Everyone laughed."

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

There’s something compelling about those who manage to preserve such anonymity, and the inclusion of their absence adds intrigue to the visualization. The retirement of Mariano Rivera in 2013, the last player allowed to wear the #42, secured the zero value in the chart above.

How To 10

How To Project Proposal Examples 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

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. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W. The chair of the new three-person committee, Richard L.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 11

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013. A brand manager at a Fortune 100 company expressed deep frustration to me: “We want to connect to our customers in a new way. But these companies aren’t getting rid of marketing – they’re just bringing it in-house.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Trends Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A recent HBR blog proposed to deliver “ The Cure for the Common Corporate Wellness Program.” Today, nearly 80% of people who work for organizations with 50 or more employees have access to a wellness program, according to a 2013 RAND study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Absenteeism Presenteeism Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

One outside manager of many endowments I spoke to confirmed to me that there has been “no mandate” from clients to be investing in the future of higher education. “I Those who manage money for higher education, I propose, need to get much more interested in the market they are in. I haven’t heard that at all,” was the quote.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 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

Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2015

A typical manager is interrupted approximately seven times an hour, which adds up to 56 interruptions a day, 80% of which are considered trivial, according to time management experts. It doesn't matter if you're working on the most important proposal of your life or an email to your manager. . Tosi on April 1, 2013.

eBook 70

eBook Efficiency Open-book Quality 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led.

Hostile Takeover 8

Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

What would it look like if managers were as polite and nurturing to one another and their subordinates as they are to customers? So we propose a three-step solution to properly value the office tending work that lubricates its operations: identify it; understand its impact; and find ways to assign it value. Identify the tending work.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Attrition Absenteeism Social Capital 8