The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 13, 2019

The middle class is defined as having a disposable income of between 75% and 200% of the median, which in the UK would translate as an after-tax income of between £13,500 and £36,100 for an individual or £27,000 and £72,200 for a couple with two children (based upon 2016 prices).

Class 64

Class Trends Politics Policies 64

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2016

Indeed, defensive registration of a new domain is an exciting opportunity for a brand to tell its story, and perhaps more importantly, to attempt something bold, innovative, and exciting. Augment the client’s Search Engine Marketing (SEM) efforts. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved.

Audience 50

Audience Brand Content Policies 50

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

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The trust of many in a system that has been the most spectacular generator of innovation in history was damaged by the unbridled greed of a few. At Boeing, Alan Mulally was hired right out of college as an engineer and went on to become its CEO before becoming the chief executive at Ford. Reproduced by permission of AMACOM.

Kaplan 100

Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

Agility 50

Agility Pharmaceuticals Self-aware Crisis Management 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. Roivant was addressing some sobering realities: In 2016, only 22 new drugs were approved by the U.S.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

It turned out that knowing about couture, the art of constructing garments perfectly fitted to the body, was more important to helping humans survive the vacuum of space than the aerospace engineers initially understood. They set up the creative, collaborative environments that foster crossovers and the innovations that come from them.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Fashion Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

This is the beauty of “creative destruction” – the term coined by innovation prophet Joseph Schumpeter almost a century ago. Incumbents have to keep innovating, lest they be overtaken by a new, more creative competitor. Instead, innovation will be a force that furthers them. That’s a significant jump.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Learning-by-Doing Creativity 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I was fortunate that my father had an opportunity to be a student in the famed four-day seminar, while working as an engineer at the Cadillac division of General Motors, in the late 1980s. Edwards Deming.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Maximize engineering productivity. Engineers love continuous delivery environments because they can immediately see how their work adds value to the organization. By August 2017, it took an average of 3.5

Agility 8

Agility Development Organization Software 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. Mark is also the Vice President of Improvement & Innovation Services for the software company KaiNexus. Guest post by Mark Graban. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

At Pinterest, we understand that diverse teams yield smarter , more innovative results, which are essential in the competitive, dynamic tech industry. For example, while women typically make up roughly 16 % of software engineers in the U.S. I joined Pinterest as the company’s first Head of Diversity in January of 2016.

Diversity 8

Diversity Engineering Goal Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. Small Firms Are Not More Innovative.

Long-term 10

Long-term Innovation Technology Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Other companies known for their capabilities are similarly focused on building growth engines.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. In 2016, the U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In his landmark 1985 book, Innovation and Entrepreneurship , famed author and educator Peter Drucker wrote about an entrepreneurial society and its impact on economic development. Innovation precedes regulation, not the other way around. In entrepreneurial societies, innovation always precedes regulation.

Drucker 11

Drucker Entrepreneur Innovation Banking 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

” But, when it comes to more complex and creative tasks such as innovation, the question still remains whether AI can do the job better than humans. After its March 2016 victory, the Google-owned program racked up over sixty wins against online opponents, a streak which sent the world’s top players into a tailspin.

Creativity 9

Creativity HCI Video Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2012

Indeed, writes Aaron Hurst in a Stanford Social Innovation Review blog, there is an increasingly popular perspective that supporting business is a charitable act. By 2016, four out of ten jobs will require advanced education or training, and many hiring managers are already finding that the talent they need is hard to find. "If

GDP 11

GDP Sports Short-term Education 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

political system, including the 2016 U.S. ” But absent “demonstrable harm to competition and consumers,” the DOJ is “reluctant to impose special duties on digital platforms, out of [its] concern that special duties might stifle the very innovation that has created dynamic competition for the benefit of consumers.”

Company 11

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla. They deliberately separate out innovation units that are charged with disrupting the status quo from those parts of the business that focus on leading in core markets. They consistently reinvent themselves.

Industry 8

Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers. One of us works for and the other advises General Assembly.)

P&L 12

P&L Agility Fashion Media 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In 1985, Peter Drucker made a hopeful case for an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and the creation of new businesses would more than compensate for job losses stemming from the retreat of manufacturing industries in the U.S. This “VUCA” environment rewards innovation but it also punishes failure more harshly.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Creativity Drucker Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

In March 2016, Thales purchased Vormetric, the growing cybersecurity firm, for $400 million, which was 5.7 In fact, by the end of December 2016, Thales traded at a 21.8 When your company ultimately becomes a more legitimate digital player, you can be more flexible in how you finance future deals.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Social entrepreneurship, social innovation, and public-private partnerships must play their part here.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The team that implemented the initiative was led by a physician and a scientist-engineer, and its members were drawn from Mayo’s Emergency Department (ED) and the Clinic’s Robert D. During the first half of 2016, ED-CELL will use it to automate the reporting to government agencies and regulatory bodies of key quality metrics (e.g.,

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

For the 2016–2017 season, thousands of constraints needed to be taken into account related to travel, player fatigue, ticket revenue, arena availability, and three major television networks. Innovate more effectively? Before starting any new data analysis initiative, ask: Is the goal to help improve business performance?

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

What if disruption comes instead — as I outline in the April 2016 issue of HBR — from the supply side? Supply-side disruption arises when a new innovation or technology offers a better way of providing consumer value than the old technology does.

Film 8

Film Christensen Short-term Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

Per capita spending will be the engine of consumption growth. The 2016 McKinsey Global Sentiment Survey of more than 22,000 consumers finds that nearly 30% of these Chinese consumers are willing to pay more for new and innovative household products—double the share of their counterparts in North America and Western Europe.

Marketing 8

Marketing McKinsey Globalization Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

It employs over a million workers and is expected to hit $25 billion in revenues in 2016. The median age is 24, and local universities produce over 130,000 graduates in information technology and engineering each year. The Philippines has a huge business process outsourcing industry.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

According to Deloitte’s 2016 Global Human Capital Trends study , 51% of global executives surveyed said their organizations plan to increase or significantly increase the use of contingent workers in the next three to five years; only 16% expect a decrease. This percentage is expected to grow in the coming years.

MBO 8

MBO Long-term Human Capital Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2018

In 2016 it was acquired for $429 million, a mere 5% of its peak value. Craigslist is another great example of an early platform company that failed to innovate and curate, and is quickly losing market share to added-value platforms like OfferUp or even Facebook Marketplace. At its peak in 2000, Monster.com was worth nearly $8.5

Strategy 8

Strategy Business Model Content Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

Is it more imagination or innovation? Adopting an agile method of customer testing and rapid iteration, they worked with engineering to rethink the product and bring a “minimum viable product” to market for these new buyers. What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur?

Creativity 14

Creativity Marketing Agility Budgeting 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

” Their new building “is really designed to spark not just collaboration but that innovation you see when people collide.” As Scott Birnbaum, vice president of Samsung, told HBR , “The most creative ideas aren’t going to come while sitting in front of your monitor.”

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Travel Cost Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Domain expertise at an automaker includes things like mechanics, telematics, structural engineering, design, and so on. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after. Make the tough calls on people.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Taking that leap, though, has opened doors for us to create a path for customer conversations around solving business issues and accelerating the pace of product innovation. One example is our Design for Sustainability program for product managers and design engineers, which we developed with Underwriters Laboratories Environment.

Energy 8

Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8