The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

. “We hypothesized that trademarks play two important roles: a protective role, leading to better product market performance; and an informational role, signaling higher firm quality to investors,” the researchers say. Trademark to success.

IPO 52

IPO Venture Capitalist Finance Advertising 52

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

” Support for adoption assistance has been growing among organizations, with data suggesting it has leapt from 7% in 2015 to 10% in 2019. Investment into these areas appears to be beneficial for companies due to the boost they provide to productivity, engagement, and loyalty.

Loyalty 106

Loyalty Policies Metrics Commitment 106

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A recent Mckinsey & Company survey shows that since 2015, America has seen only a modest growth in women’s well paid jobs representation in the corporate pipeline. In the five years since 2015, women in high paying job representation in C-suite positions jumped from 17 to 21 percent. Operations Research Analyst.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

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.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching Human Resources Magazine CEO 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. Drive Innovation. It is a competitive market in today’s economy. Engage Customers.

Strategy 50

Strategy Outsourcing Process Technology 50

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015. Blog Post ).

Books 150

Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

A recent tweet by 7billCORPORATE ( @7billcorp , part of @7billionideas ) really nailed the truth about innovation and business. On 30 January 2015 via Twitter, a brilliant graphic was added to a post that contrasted the perception many people have about the path to progress and what it’s really like. Porsche image from [link].

Innovation 70

Innovation Tools Operations Engineering 70

Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

A recent tweet by 7billCORPORATE ( @7billcorp , part of @7billionideas ) really nailed the truth about innovation and business. On 30 January 2015 via Twitter, a brilliant graphic was added to a post that contrasted the perception many people have about the path to progress and what it’s really like.

Tools 70

Tools Innovation Operations Engineering 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation.

Budgeting 12

Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 12

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened. 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. billion euro.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations. The firm’s leaders, convinced the U.S.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

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. Consider that 86 million U.S.

Innovation 9

Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 9

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. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Business leaders often think of “efficiency” and “productivity” as synonyms, two sides of the same coin. When it comes to strategy, however, efficiency and productivity are very different. At first glance, the definition of productivity appears remarkably similar. Let me explain.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Productivity Products Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. “Maybe what you think is the best idea you’ve ever had actually isn’t.”

Innovation 8

Innovation Entrepreneur Content Education 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

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Websites that sell products are digital platforms, not the arbitrators of quality in the business world. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. They arbitrarily disable accounts.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

.’ Distinctions must be drawn into three consulting categories (and percentages of their occurrence in the marketplace): Vendors selling products which were produced by others. Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17%).

Mentor 50

Mentor Consultative Strategic Planning Entrepreneur 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation. What’s more, many of the innovations originate in relatively poor, underdeveloped regions or are designed to serve low-income customers, which means that the innovators have no choice but to be frugal.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Arizona, one of the leading cities for autonomous vehicles, is the proving ground for this transformative innovation. This fleet of driverless cars — 600 Chrysler Pacifica mini-vans, operated by Google’s Waymo — can be seen today daily on the streets where companies like GM and Ford also are testing autonomous innovations.

Transportation 8

Transportation Content Committee Technology 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. I call this new breed of companies the “inclusive innovators.” Some goals may be too broad or too distant. Segment the SDGs.

Development 11

Development Company Innovation Goal 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies.

Goal 8

Goal Short-term Insurance Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. There is an ocean of difference between people innovating or designing new offerings inside a large company, and actual entrepreneurs. Fear of failure.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

Transportation 10

Transportation Health Care Venture Capitalist Advertising 10

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Well, 2015 has now arrived, and earlier this month, investors, entrepreneurs, and other drone supporters gave two cheers when the agency at last released a draft of its proposed regulations.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

For most of 2015, I was the director of Rhode Island’s SBM, known as HealthSource RI, which more than 32,000 Rhode Islanders use to purchase health insurance. Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. Fostering innovation.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). output comes from fracking operations that have cut costs dramatically since slumping prices in 2014 forced dozens of companies into bankruptcy.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Last year during Climate Week, my company took the opportunity to publicly announce a commitment to increase the energy efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of our operations and product portfolio. In Year One, we have avoided 1.5 By 2030, we expect to reduce our carbon-footprint equivalent to the energy used by 4.6

Energy 8

Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

Banking 14

Banking Strategy Film Operations 14

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Today, workplaces are undergoing a digital revolution which is helping to transform entire industries and forcing companies to change the way they operate. Digitisation has the potential to increase productivity and efficiency, while also improving communication, and remote working is no longer an exception but an expectation.

Leadership 150

Leadership Technology Consultative Operations 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8