The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. Of course, a study from a few years ago suggests that such fears of widespread job displacement may be somewhat overblown.

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Automotive Banking Industry Information Technology 73

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Over the course of these months I’ve seen the various routines and moves be practiced over and over. My “aha” moment for you as we close 2015 and look toward 2016 is this: What are the foundations you are laying down? I always knew the moves would come together at some point.

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Succession How To Strategic Planning Training 150

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. In the meantime, here are my Top 10 leadership insights of 2017 as chosen by you, the readers of my award-winning leadership blog.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas. Liz Wiseman – Bestselling author of Multipliers, Thinkers 50 Top Ten Leadership Thinker 2015-17, Winner of the ATD Champion of Talent Award.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2016

in 2015, according to the Kauffman Index. That’s why it makes sense to divide operational areas up and assign ultimate authority of each to one person. More than six million new businesses launched in the U.S. Given that volume, it’s certain that some of these new businesses were rolled out by people who had never led a company before.

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Operations Travel Productivity Products 50

Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Share on Twitter ] “Over the course of the past decade, we’ve come to learn that to motivate our employees through fear or incentives is not sustainable. Again, the importance of this can best be appreciated when we consider how our brain operates. I hope you enjoyed reading my Top 10 Leadership Insights for 2014.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2015

For nearly three decades, Ruth led the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations’ (INPO) Information Technology Division as Director, Computer Systems and Telecommunications and Director, Information Technology and Data Services. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Information Technology 50

Information Technology Telecommunications Committee Technology 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

It can also drag us off course, eroding our relationships, stalling our careers and keeping us from becoming the people we want to become. In my new book Triggers (Crown, May 2015), I make the case that relying on structure – even something as simple as the AIWATT question – is key to changing our behavior.

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Executive Coaching Tactics Video Positioning 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Of course, legal solutions are just one of the ways you need to protect your company. They’ll keep a check on your computer systems and ensure everything operates smoothly. But if the server breaks, then you will almost certainly run into issues operating your business. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Consultative Outsourcing Software Human Resources 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

On January 26, 2015, President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. Boeing India’s Dennis Swanson told Business Week that he expects to sign a new strategic partnership with an Indian company in 2015. America’s largest insurer, Allstate, announced plans to invest $1 billion in its India operations.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 22, 2015

As 2015 begins to wind down, many of us – myself included – are understandably eager to wrap up the remaining work threads of this year so we can shift our focus to what we’d like to achieve and move forward with in the New Year.

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Learning-by-Doing Goal Long-term Motivation 100

Deming Institute

MAY 14, 2015

In the paper, he describes statistical control of quality as a system, not a bag of techniques, focuses on statistical methods in improvement of operations. Unaided by statistical techniques, man’s natural reaction to trouble of any kind, such as an accident, high rejection-rate, stoppage of production, is to blame the operators.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

Amid improved consumer confidence, with the April 2015 confidence index of 95.2 Prospects want to know that the person who wrote the review really exists so be sure to list real names (with permission of course). This asks that we operate with openness, clear communication and accountability. well above April 2014's 81.7

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Crisis Strategy Brand Telemarketing 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Which, of course, negatively impacts performance. He is the founder of The Potential Project – a leading global provider of corporate based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. Rasmus is author of the book “One Second Ahead – Enhancing Performance at work with Mindfulness”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, October 2015.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Strategy Covey 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2015

As a result change and course corrections are easily implemented. It will be uncomfortable for some whose main desire is a smooth operation, but growth is not smooth. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. In initial structuring there will be a strong commitment to the leader’s vision and mission.

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Morale Bureaucracy Efficiency Participative 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 24, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) Course material is designed with ‘learning’ in mind (rather than content sharing/behavior change), and looks quite different from conventional training. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. How We Learn.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

I share this story with students in the courses I teach and I jokingly tell them, as I finish the story, that I learned one valuable lesson that day….not 2015, November). I asked with some frustration in my voice. But Mr. Stilwell, this is my real life, right now.”. Pause… “I guess it is,” I replied. End of conversation. Richardson, W.

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2015

We all operate out of unique, internal systems comprised of mental models (rules, beliefs, history etc.) Course material is designed with 'learning' in mind (rather than content sharing/behavior change), and looks quite different from conventional training. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. How We Learn.

Training 50

Training Resistance Learning-by-Doing System 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Of course this is necessary – but only as the final stage of issues buyers have to address. operate with the new solution without facing major disruption. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Indeed, it’s possible to make money AND make nice. Selling and Serving. define the criteria they must ultimately meet.

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Servant Leader Influence Incentives System 50

Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

The theory of knowledge helps us recognize that someone decides what data to collect and what operational definitions to use. For example, how a teacher is going to be evaluated may influence the timing and methods of assessing student learning as well as content coverage in courses.

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System Education Comparison Influence 28

Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

And our open curriculum is the University trusting in us saying “we don’t know every course you’ll need to make your impact on the world. And then a friend in the Class of 2015, Yao Lui, was visiting Ghana with a Brown-founded medical nonprofit. Only you can discover that.” It was a beginning.

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Class Education Construction McKinsey 70

Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

And our open curriculum is the University trusting in us saying “we don’t know every course you’ll need to make your impact on the world. And then a friend in the Class of 2015, Yao Lui, was visiting Ghana with a Brown-founded medical nonprofit. Only you can discover that.” It was a beginning.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Without mapping a course, how can any organization reach a destination? Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Quality should be viewed as a journey, rather than a destination.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

In contrast, under employment, the hiring party basically calls all the shots: what the individual does, how they do their work and when they do it, what they are permitted to do and not do, what performance is deemed acceptable, and of course the rate of pay. Hence the issuing of our now-retracted guidance in 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

A trainer may recommend courses for human behavior, believing that these constitute a Visioning process (of which they are a small part). No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Let the buyer beware. Consider leaving a comment!

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Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

On March 3, 2015, hyperlocal social network Nextdoor announced that it had raised $110 million in venture capital. Over the course of three months, Nextdoor’s different permutations made clear that certain versions of the app worked far better than others. chuttersnap/unsplash. This last step proved to be the thorniest.

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Agility Report Storytelling Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. STOCK4B-RF/Getty Images. Medicine involves leadership.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

It’s a story as old as business itself: a company generates a byproduct in the course of its routine operations, then discovers that another company is willing to pay for it. Data is, of course, a prime example. Businesses are already generating it in the course of normal operations. zettabytes. (A

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Software Industry Operations Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Of course, all companies need robust networks, to communicate among their parts as well as to connect to the outside world. Especially for operating around the globe, electronic communication has become essential. Is crowdfunding in this global village quite the same?

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Drucker Information Technology Globalization Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But the strengthening creates a serious challenge for the big American multinationals with large foreign operations. The real problem is that the earnings from their substantial foreign operations are translated back to the home country financials to produce fewer dollars of net profit.

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EPS Short-term Cost of Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Unilever, for example, has found that its sustainable living brands are growing 30% faster than the rest of its business and in 2015 delivered nearly half the company’s total growth. ” Of course, the SDGs are meant to be comprehensive, a systemic approach to complex problems of sustainable development at a planetary level.

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Development Company Innovation Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

That’s valuable information, of course, but it shines no light on the problem of how to respond to potentially threatening innovation that has yet to generate a dominant new business model. electric utilities during 2008-2015—a period in which the decentralized model was in its uncertain, nascent phase.

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Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Executives are usually taught that data is an objective and critical input for strategic planning and operations. Applying this, however, is much easier said than done — especially among companies operating in emerging markets. Of course, these issues can cause a headache for any company, in any market. Alpha’s U.S.

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Marketing GDP Industry Objective 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples). Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.

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First-mover Advantage Globalization Content Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. Of course, the shuttered stores, depressed execs, and tanking stocks suggest otherwise. Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble.

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8