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). A policy concern.

Class 70

Class Trends Politics Policies 70

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The consequences of this labor market disenfranchisement are all too clearly evident throughout the western world. The analysis, which focused on the United States, explored the current political landscape through the lens of both the Great Recession of 2008 and the 2014 immigration crisis. Wider consequences.

Participative 83

Participative Analysis Politics Crisis 83

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

This article was written by Jennifer Horn for the June 2016 issue of Strategy Magazine. Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. competitors are entering the market.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 22, 2019

Indeed, research led by Oxford’s Carl Benedikt Frey went as far as to suggest that Trump and Brexit supporters are more susceptible to automation, with those whose jobs have been disrupted by technology significantly more likely to support Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Risk of automation.

McKinsey 70

McKinsey Technology Ethics Report 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In 2016, the Venn diagram of what we were proudest of and what you spent the most time reading overlapped more than ever. management thinking applied outside the sphere of what we ordinarily think of as management to help make sense of global risks, political choices, and economic, social, and technological shifts.

Management 8

Management Diversity Globalization Class 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

For instance, Snapchat’s recent IPO filing revealed that the company grew revenues by 600% (to $404 million) in 2016. The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. ” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Then came 2016. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. For most of 2016, the world moved quickly on climate. For some, it’s about the commercial opportunity to appeal to a new or growing market of rights-focused consumers. days of innovation).

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%

Innovation 8

Innovation Drucker Policies Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

But while it feels like a lot of our political conventional wisdom is getting turned on its head, one thing that hasn’t appeared to move forward is how we talk about the economy. Hillary Clinton has a tech and innovation agenda. based companies plan to innovate to meet the competitive challenges of tomorrow.

Politics 8

Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. Partisans from both sides of the aisle believe it transformed presidential politics. All these near-real-time "market" data helped determine resource allocation. They're right.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Did India just pull off a monetary and political miracle? The original reason given for the drastic demonetization action was to expose the so-called “black” market, fueled by money that is illegally gained and undeclared for tax purposes. Innovation and Creativity Emerged Around Digital Payments.

Banking 9

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

According to an October 2016 Pew poll , only about half of Americans believe that climate change is due to human activity. But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Aggregate Demand Incentives Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits. political system, including the 2016 U.S. The velocity in acquiring and exploiting this personal data can help these companies obtain significant market power.

Company 10

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

But certain types of decisions — particularly those related to strategy, innovation and marketing — will likely continue to require a human being who can take a holistic view and make a qualitative judgment based on a personal consideration of the context and facts.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Tools Marketing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These have forced AirBnB, Tesla, and Uber to make costly concessions to their operating practices or to exit certain markets altogether. As expected, Calgary’s city council voted overwhelmingly against Uber in February 2016, forcing the firm to leave the city temporarily. Partner organizations. In the U.S.,

Licensing 9

Licensing Proposal Retail Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. Industries dominated by information-rich assets (think publishing and music) were swept up in the early wave of internet innovation. No industry is immune.

Technology 8

Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

A sizable body of research establishes that these “Schumpeterian” entrepreneurs, those that are “creatively destroying” the old in favor of the new, are critical for breakthrough innovations and rapid advances in productivity and standards of living. If the U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Construction Industry Productivity 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. laura schneider FOR HBR. Peter Drucker called this a turning point in human history.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments.

Succession 8

Succession Construction Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

On the one hand, there is widespread fear that innovation will lead to a loss of jobs and rising income inequality — the “race against the machines” narrative. On the other, the slowdown in productivity growth across advanced economies has led some economists to argue that new innovations have no impact on growth.

Video 10

Video Technology Education Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Up to 85% of women report that they have been sexually harassed at work, according to a 2016 report by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Whether the industry is media, entertainment, politics, technology, or something else, these women say things like: “ I quit.” ” Or, “ I left that place.”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Gordon Industry Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. Traditionally, it has been government’s role to provide equality of opportunity (particularly through education), an effective safety net, and social, political, and economic stability. These are the seven areas: 1. Shape the next wave of globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

the approach to digital privacy has been more piecemeal: in effect, it is predicated in part on the idea that the ability of companies to collect, analyze, sell and monetize user data with minimal restrictions is the basis for an innovative digital industry; new users are drawn by free services and companies make money from the data collected.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Constraint Self-aware Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

°F) — a level that seemed politically feasible, but still leads to vast damage, including the death of all coral; even more deadly storms and heat; and rising oceans covering low-lying island nations and major coastal areas. So, to go even further, companies need to also consider who they support for political office.

Efficiency 11

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Competing for scarce labor in a tight market, they will have trouble continuing to shift medical bills onto employees as they have for several decades. To address these challenges, they will have to band together in purchasing coalitions that give them the local market power to force health systems to reform. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

This week, Facebook took advantage of this asset for political purposes. Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles.

Politics 8

Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 It is true that Kalanick consistently called China the most important market for Uber. Uber truly wanted to succeed in its fastest-growing market, one where taxi drivers outnumber their U.S. trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Brexit, as the British referendum to exit the EU is widely called, has caused turmoil in politics and stocks and head-shaking among the UK’s partners. ” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Most plans have fewer than six: one or two financial metrics, such as sales growth or earnings per share, and two or three nonfinancial metrics, in areas such as quality or innovation. It can generate political capital with government regulators, who may then grant the company greater freedom of movement.

Execution 10

Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. This group should represent a variety functions within the organization exposed to Brexit: supply chain, channel managers, procurement, marketing, sales, public affairs, governance, and financial controlling, among others. How to Plan for Brexit.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

European nations, so often criticized for stifling innovation in a tangle of tradition and regulation, have decisively leapfrogged the United States on this issue. France plans to impose a 20 percent quota by 2012 and double it to 40 percent by 2016 for the country's 2,500 largest companies. As of 2010, women held just 15.7

Competitive Advantage 15

Competitive Advantage McKinsey Resistance Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

But the cure to the pathologies of past-sickness does not lie in the equally romanticized vision of modernization and innovation we have been offered for the last 40 years — something that might be called future nostalgia , or modernization-sickness. As of 2016, that had fallen to 22.8%. of America’s total wealth.

Class 9

Class Bottom-up Arkes Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

” This is what the back end of AI looks like in 2016. We call this ever-moving frontier of AI’s development, the paradox of automation’s last mile : as AI makes progress, it also results in the rapid creation and destruction of temporary labor markets for new types of humans-in-the-loop tasks.

Content 8

Content Trends Media Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

and China take the lead in tech innovation. ” The proposal is to create a “Digital Single Market” in the EU. The goal of the Digital Single Market is an ambitious one: to deliver by the end of 2016 the equivalent of US$ 471 billion per year to the regional economy and 3.8 million jobs.

Crisis 8

Crisis McKinsey Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

There’s pain as companies go out of business and people lose jobs, but ultimately there’s gain as the new market establishes itself. Each and every choice and process can be made more efficient, more responsive to market conditions, and more persuasive to users. Old ways of doing things are replaced by better ones.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8