The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Undue influence Expanding upon the relatively limited scope of short-term, single-generation studies, the research from the University of Notre Dame delves into a comprehensive analysis spanning 35 years of data derived from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, encompassing the period from 1979 to 2014.

Short-term 59

Short-term Class Long-term Influence 59

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Many believe that a brand is a function of marketing. Marketers and marketing departments love ‘branding campaigns’ or ‘brand-building programs,’ because they are sexier and more exciting than their less attractive cousin, the product campaign. But a brand is much more than a component of marketing.

Brand 71

Brand Marketing Competitive Advantage Bottom-up 71

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. By adding digital without compromising the quality of the 160-year-old brand, Burberry regained market superiority in the new retail economy. Embrace disruption.

Company 150

Company How To Retail Banking 150

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Companies can take advantage of the shifting market forces by becoming thought leaders and champions of the values that are of growing importance to the expanding tribe of cultural creatives. Here’s what was found (Nielsen 2014): 67% of consumers prefer to work for socially responsible companies. Change creates opportunity.

Brand 225

Brand Commitment Globalization Survey 225

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

For instance, a few years ago, research from VU University Amsterdam showed that we tend to have an unconscious bias towards viewing innovation and creativity as a young person’s game. The results were pretty clear cut, with the proportion of students aged between 50 and 64 rising from 10% in 1995 to nearly 30% by 2014.

Entrepreneur 131

Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Competitive Advantage Innovation 131

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We need to continue learning long after we’ve tossed our caps into the air and received our diplomas, especially in a world where the speed of innovation has us adopting new technologies, standards, and best practices at breakneck speeds. Alan has spent his learning budget on books about agile development and software team management.

Execution 247

Execution Education Learning-by-Doing Agility 247

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2017

Through a decade of innovation-training work with global leaders (and in researching my new book, Why Simple Wins ), I’ve identified the unique mindset possessed by leaders who succeed in simplification. Characteristic #1: Courage When Dave Lewis became CEO at European grocery store giant Tesco in 2014, the company was struggling.

Short-term 260

Short-term Efficiency Brand System 260

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. in 1985 to 5.3%

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 94

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

Think about it: how organizations are run in 2014 is radically different from how they were run just ten years ago. And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage.

Blue Ocean Strategy 220

Blue Ocean Strategy Prahalad Christensen Leadership 220

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 28, 2014

In the CEO Challenge 2014 study carried out by The Conference Board , CEOs and presidents from over 1 000 organizations around the world were asked to identify what they saw as the top challenges for their organization.

Human Capital 245

Human Capital Long-term Conference Self-aware 245

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 30, 2017

And cultural innovation should be a top priority for your company. Or say he wants creativity and innovation, only to criticize every new perspective? Cultures that are toxic by their very nature are not innovative. In another 2014 study by Glassdoor they uncovered what people really cared about. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Brand 120

Brand Innovation Energy Follow-up 120

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

5, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Executive leaders, take note. After motivational ability, the senior executive traits most valued by organizations were: strong ability to manage change (51 percent); ability to identify and develop talent (46 percent); innovative thinking (30 percent); and consistent high performance (26 percent).

Execution 283

Execution Company Press Release Survey 283

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

As these six megatrends develop in parallel, each feeds on and intensifies the others. The financial market already recognizes it: In an academic study of 30 public companies that announced co-CEO arrangements, the average stock return that could be attributed to the announcement was 2.58 the top should be a crowded place. It can’t be.

Leadership 244

Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Location has always been vital for startups, both in terms of providing ready access to human capital to help develop the startup’s proposition, but also to provide ready access to a local market to help develop momentum. They examined nearly 2,200 startups who were created between 1990 and 2014. Movement of talent.

Biotechnology 56

Biotechnology Human Capital Travel Entrepreneur 56

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Leaders in companies prioritizing interaction skills are more effective at coaching and developing others; communicating and interacting; developing strong networks and partnerships; fostering employee creativity and innovation; and identifying and developing future talent.

Human Capital 103

Human Capital Conference Metrics Talent Management 103

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

How To 100

How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

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. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Information gathering and analytics acumen that looks externally at markets, competition, and the company’s reputation, and internally at the organization’s culture, teams, and performance levels. The CEO will become less of a doer and innovator and more of a leader of leaders. They made great products and brought them to market.

Leadership 217

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s not all negative however, as the annual Prosperity Index from the Legatum Institute suggests that the last decade has seen economies actually become more open, with every region of the world showing improvements, especially in areas such as market access and infrastructure.

Report 84

Report Globalization Social Capital Education 84

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The researchers tracked around 450,000 people who had settled in the United States between 2000 and 2014, and found that many refugees move to a different state shortly after their arrival in the search for better jobs or better social networks (but not more generous welfare!).

Policies 81

Policies Analysis Bureaucracy Short-term 81

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2014

Some commentators felt the move to New Coke was a marketing gimmick to regenerate interest and sales in the brand after sales erosion due to the “Pepsi Challenge” taste test campaign. The Miller heritage could not be lost, particularly because his founding products were innovative for their time. Classic Coke sales rebounded.

Brand 58

Brand Marketing Engineering Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. Control, one of the six core emotional needs I discuss in Empathetic Marketing , fuels our motivations in every aspect of our lives.

ROE 50

ROE ROI Letter Airlines 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Most businesses wouldn’t survive without driving demand for their products or services, either through marketing and advertising or through involving users so deeply in the design of the product that word of mouth spurs adoption. The same is true for social innovators. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself.

Innovation 9

Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

Innovation 11

Innovation Company Agility Workshop 11

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W. Many of the clients I worked with had had developed the idea for years, but they were reluctant to quit their Jobs, or were afraid of failing.

Deming 28

Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation. ” Weak signals — specifically Americans’ desire for flavorful, convenient, fresh coffee — in the late 1980s, inspired the development of the Keurig coffee system. The innovation was a bold move.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Engineering Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Innovation drives economic growth. This logic has risen to dominate the discourse in development circles, with government leaders, policy influencers, and development-minded business leaders fully embracing innovation as a panacea for unemployment and economic underperformance.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Business Model Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” The uncertainty that increasingly characterizes our world means that companies need to attract, retain, and develop motivated innovators who can help to imagine and realize new growth opportunities.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Innovation Centers.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

They’re independent businesspeople who are now marketing their sales and personal development services using my intellectual property, both online and in the classroom. In 2014 I will intensify the program and the process until there are 500 certified advisors globally. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Succession 50

Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Marketers are racing to create seamless customer experiences that make it easy for consumers to engage at every touchpoint as they navigate the “decision journey” and beyond. In addition, we took a fresh look at how our marketers are organized globally. Capability building puts an emphasis on developing “transformation champions.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Taylorism Taylor 8