The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

One could certainly be forgiven for not recognizing such a picture, especially if you’re a regular reader of the technology press, which features a daily exposition of the vast sums being raised by startups around the world. An environment of creative destruction most definitely is not present. A different picture.

Entrepreneur 119

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 119

Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2013

When high overtime use occurs, leaders should resist the temptation to hire more workers and instead focus on the adequacy of management practices; employee training and behaviors; work identification, planning, scheduling, execution, and closure processes; and supporting technologies to optimally deploy employees to maximize work output.

Resources 62

Resources Management Newsletter Article 62

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

In the real world, of course, change is not easy, and resistance is not only common, but to be expected. They tend to think of innovation as a shiny new product or service that incorporates a major advance in technology—something like the Model T or the iPhone. Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. 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. -Daniel Kahneman.

Power 95

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

But after meeting internal resistance, we integrated elements of going tribal to create a new company, Division-D. As digital technology disrupted Kodak’s business, they held onto the film business as everyone was going digital. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. It was clear it needed a tribal approach.

Business Model 73

Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Use technology to identify and address barriers. High-density RFID readers were installed in the ceilings.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. Consider leaving a comment!

Crisis 59

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2013, Google took a step towards understanding the intent of their users with the Hummingbird algorithm. Against the technological backdrop described above, it’s more important than ever that the modern knowledge worker makes good business decisions based on good information: factual, unbiased, broad-based.

How To 14

How To Ethics Media Content 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

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. Creating a professional virtual network that would be high quality, participatory, and trusted required some trial and error both in terms of the content and technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

But with the rise of digital technology, and with it the ability to get immediate feedback from customers and communities, crowdsourcing has become a powerful alternative for driving important decisions. 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

AUGUST 23, 2012

without any compliance process or technology in place.". The combination of the right policy and the right technology can render even the most delicate of communications compliant. Adopting technology that keeps pace with regulatory requirements is equally important. You will likely see thousands of them.

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. Conglomerates resist this approach, combining more diverse businesses and allowing them separate decision-making structures. The article, by J.

IPO 11

IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

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. To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

It existed in over half the companies in 2013 with 20% officially allowing it, but both these numbers dropped a year later; by 2014, just over one-third said it existed, and only 7% officially allowed it. BYOPC truly exploded, nearly doubling from 44% to 80% between 2013 and 2014, with a jump in unofficial use making the big difference.

Trends 8

Trends Telecommunications Survey Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Though technology would have allowed for a significantly virtual enterprise, it was important to Ruh to have a physical building where people could actually be located together. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Our research and client engagement experience has shown us that generating strong returns from the digital sensors, wireless communications devices, digital cameras installed in buildings and other smart, connected devices does not come down to writing big checks or being technologically savvy. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Wireless Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

The newspaper industry is a good example of just how difficult it can be to thrive when business goes digital, especially if that business is chronically resistant to change. One question is: How do you make a living in that kind of environment?” ( The Washington Post ; September 3, 2013). The technology is there. Reputation.

Price 9

Price Content Reputation Advertising 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In 2013, Julian Birkinshaw and I found that knowledge workers spend 67% of their time in meetings. Using the tablet technology, we asked “did your least meeting have an agenda?” The next time you’re tempted to send out an email – or have a meeting – reminding people how to run a meeting, resist.

Conference 8

Conference Learning-by-Doing Budgeting Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Many CMOs see their digital future, but struggle to make the case across the executive ranks, where resistance is born of unfamiliarity, fear, or misperceptions about what digital marketing means for the brand.

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s easy to make a case that Apple is now positioning itself to become more of a provider of luxury-level technology. Finally, for fun, we couldn’t resist adding one more chart. At launch, they cost about 10-12% of median monthly income, far less than desktops (40%) and notebooks (50%) of the same general era.

Mass Marketing 11

Mass Marketing Marketing Brand Meyer 11

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

JUNE 20, 2018

Since March, schools in West Virginia , Oklahoma , Kentucky , Arizona , Colorado and North Carolina have either been shut down or turned into sites of resistance. ” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Teachers have had enough.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

For decades now, every major environmental regulation has met significant resistance from the industries most affected. What about the companies and entrepreneurs that create cleaner ways of operating or provide the pollution-reducing technologies? Just because something may be difficult doesn't mean it will be expensive as well.

Cost 10

Cost Industry Constraint Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

In Lean In , her 2013 manifesto about how women need to forge ahead professionally, Sandberg credited her husband, David Goldberg, for providing the support she needed to thrive professionally. Even 20 years ago, before technology made it so easy, I felt you could do knowledge work from wherever you needed to be.

Chief Technology Officer 8

Chief Technology Officer Travel Chief Operating Officer Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. However, rather than rolling out the red carpet, city governments have resisted many of these new entrants issuing subpoenas and cease-and-desist orders.

Business Model 9

Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

Here is a brief synopsis of what we missed: Under Chinese stewardship, a new and potentially disruptive player in the development banking landscape, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), which was initially proposed in 2013 by President Xi Jingping, gathered steam. resistance to the AIIB is founded on rational principles.

Banking 8

Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

Last year, Germany had a slight increase in the number of female executives among its top compani es , which are fiercely resisting the fast-spreading EU quota legislation (from 6% to 9%). Should we celebrate a country where the key message of one of its top female executives in 2013 was for other women to ‘lean in’ and try harder?

Execution 10

Execution Committee Diversity Operations 10

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

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.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” The leading digital payments players have experienced a bump since the demonetization experiment began.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Supply Chain 8

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.

Class 9

Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

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. companies have had to boost productivity with new technologies and supply chains, while offering new products. manufacturing has adapted and grown, not declined.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Politics Policies Globalization 8