The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 6, 2020

The researchers analyze a range of interactive technologies, from roadside cameras to Google Maps, and find that effective use of them can help to manage traffic such that road expansion projects aren’t needed. Indeed, such Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) were found to save $4.7 Chicago and Houston. ”

Technology 82

Technology Transportation Travel System 82

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 26, 2013

If you consistently overload your best people with “important projects” three things might happen. 7 Principles of Leadership Development: Strategy for Leadership Development. Development Belongs to the Manager of the Person Being Developed NOT Human Resources! Even Mind-Readers are not mind-readers.

Team Building 136

Team Building Article Team Case Study 136

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2015

” This year will fly by, and as you gaze at 2015 in your rear view mirror, you may ask the same question then that you’re asking about 2014 now. Your team members can & will become the innovators in your industry when they are led well. Point out specific projects, causes or milestones you believe your team can reach.

Learning-by-Doing 150

Learning-by-Doing Incentives Mentor Industry 150

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. DDI Senior Vice President and study co-author.

Human Capital 103

Human Capital Conference Metrics Talent Management 103

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I am very excited to announce the selection of the 100 Coaches in our pay-it-forward project! For those of you who haven’t heard of the project, here is a little back story. I made a 30-second video about the project for LinkedIn. Three iconic leaders inspired the 100 Coaches project. 100 COACHES.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

A December 2014 report in Forbes magazine explains that emotional intelligence is the act of understanding and responding to one’s own emotions and dealing with and overcoming stress, while knowing that their words and actions at a critical moment will directly impact the overall composure of the team. It might sound easy, but it’s not.

Emotional Intelligence 120

Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Leadership Quality 120

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

The CEO will become less of a doer and innovator and more of a leader of leaders. The day-to-day execution style had delivered excellent results in product development over the years, but we had begun to bring strategy to bear in the company. May On How To Encourage Creativity & Innovation What Will Your Leadership Legacy Be?

Leadership 217

Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 217

Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

To be innovative is to act with creativity by experimenting with how things get done in ways that are good for you and for the people around you--taking realistic steps aimed at scoring four-way wins. HE ENCOURAGES INNOVATION IN HIMSELF AND OTHERS. Leading by example, he inspires others to be creative.

Learning-by-Doing 129

Learning-by-Doing Audience Open-book Innovation 129

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

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. In-N-Out Burger.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

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

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

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

This allows employees to request the resources they need to fulfill their project commitments. If, as a result, the project fails, each side is likely to blame the other, producing a mood of distrust and resentment. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. budget, staffing, and time) are made available.

Chief Executive Officer 57

Chief Executive Officer Delegation Competitive Advantage Project 57

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

There is one best way to get big projects done. To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. Developing and deploying new technology requires building a supportive ecosystem surrounding it. Classic leadership lessons apply. Enter a coalition.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

Innovation 8

Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

For instance, leaders can connect with the millennial, which constitutes the largest and most diverse generation in the US employee population, according to a 2014 U.S Employers will need to optimize their workflow to examine those tasks that are repetitive, necessary, strategic or project-based.

Brand 66

Brand Agility Technology Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2015

The “them” the leader was referring to were zombie projects: the nefarious enemies of well-intentioned innovation efforts around the globe. Every year scores of people spent months reviewing recent performance and sanity-checking future projections. Every project went under the proverbial microscope.

Project 8

Project How To Innovation Budgeting 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

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

OCTOBER 27, 2014

In innovation circles, empowerment is now a familiar theme; project teams working highly autonomously have been behind many of the world’s most innovative offerings. This, I believe, is why creating innovation platforms is so valuable. Yet it also matters to these businesses to keep launching innovative new offerings.

Innovation 8

Innovation Strategy Drucker Project 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Many try to come up with new ideas, but few are innovative without trying. If you are perceptive, you will pick up what people are thinking and develop your business to suit them. If you dive into projects too fast or make irrational decisions, you will find it hard to make the most of your business. Practicality. Resilience.

B2C 67

B2C Entrepreneur B2B Emotional Intelligence 67

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. Moreover, the skills that are cherished and rewarded for achieving current results differ from those that aid in discovery and experimentation, both of which are needed to drive innovation. First they agreed to shift funding from small, incremental acquisitions to innovation.

Innovation 9

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao Paolo, Lagos, New Delhi, Guangzhou, Jakarta, and many others. As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Such communities are particularly useful in recruitment, hiring, talent development, or in defining employee retention policies. This can be top down, (the company set up a particular challenge or new product) or bottom up (the company allows employees to develop their own creative ideas, and then choose the most convenient ones).

Innovation 8

Innovation Diversity Bond Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In late 2014, he joined forces with two other leaders in the space, Bryan Mazlish and Jeffrey Brewer, to form a technology startup called Bigfoot Biomedical. That passion not only fuels innovation, but it also brings together communities that have common hopes and challenges, and are willing to float ideas and resources.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Business Model System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis began to work on the issue as a side project. In order to support corporate hackers like Atis and Windham and foster internal innovation, companies need to identify these individuals and understand what makes them tick. Windham recently won Stanley Black & Decker’s Breakthrough Innovation award. The prize?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The remainder work for Orange (née French Telecom), which launched VBN in 2014 to teach its programmers and engineers how to work with and learn from people outside of the company. Projects that would have taken months of calls are finished in weeks, demonstrating the importance of co-location in innovation.

Company 10

Company ROI Metrics Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation. So how does it work?

Venture Funding 14

Venture Funding Entrepreneur Agility Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

percent of the 2014 global medical device market—behind the U.S. One project is a remote intensive-care patient management program. This also includes innovative systems for patient-requested care, promotion of self-medication, cloud-based record availability, and remote monitoring of patients in their homes.

Health Care 8

Health Care Industry Pharmaceuticals Content 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

They’ve allowed the “You’re just lucky to have a job” post-recession mindset to linger and hamper innovation, and they’ve continued to marginalize anything related to flexibility as a “mother’s issue.”

Project 8

Project Participative Goal ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

” In other words, today’s innovators don’t “go global”—globality is baked into their origins. Innovation isn’t merely outsourced to low-cost providers, it’s globally networked between peers and partners. from 2012 to 2014. For Silicon Valley, however, that proportion rises to 45%.

Globalization 8

Globalization Entrepreneur Innovation Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The Federal Reserve is projecting GDP growth of 2.8 to 3 percent in 2014 (U.S. Economic Outlook for 2014 and Beyond, January 13, 2014, About.com), and our own research , “CEO Briefing 2014 –The Global Agenda: Competing in a Digital World,” found widespread optimism in the C-Suite about companies’ growth prospects.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Looking ahead to 2014, one of the most urgent issues will be a new war for talent: not yesteryear’s broad-based need for all top talent but an increasing demand for the right kind of talent. How can leaders leverage and develop diverse talent in 2014? What does it take to consistently drive growth and innovation?

EPS 13

EPS Diversity Innovation Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

Software gurus are assessing whether to get into th e development game for 3D printers. In 2014 alone, the 3D-printing industry grew by 35.2%. And although the industry saw a slight slowdown in 2015, innovations with 3D-printed products are visible among a wide range of industries.

Health Care 8

Health Care Technology Software Cost 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

Looking to increase the homeownership rate and “foster affordable housing,” the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department issued regulations that required 55% of all government sponsored entities (GSEs) to purchase “affordable” loans from banks, either directly or through packaged MBS. . All rights reserved.

Insurance 52

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8