By 2018, 485,000,000 wearable computing devices will ship globally, including smart watches and smart clothing, according to ABI Research. MORE
Publicis now gets 50% of its revenue from digital—that’s ahead of its 2018 target. Even for experienced deal makers, a first digital acquisition is bound to be an education. Companies acquire to accelerate their overall strategy and digital transformation, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for $3.7 billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one. MORE
Ask each member of your team to write you a letter, as if it were January 2018. If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag. MORE
SpaceX, taking a page from NASA’s playbook, just announced that it will fly tourists around the moon in 2018.). Project Apollo Archive/NASA. In January Google ended Project Titan, an initiative to blanket the earth in Wi-Fi with the help of solar-powered drones. It was the latest in a series of Google’s moonshot projects being closed. With the announcement, some in the media concluded that the Google moonshot was essentially dead. MORE
million new small business jobs” by 2018. There is no greater demonstration of the impact that businesses have on cities and regions than what has been occurring in the Midwestern Unites States. MORE
In response, the ABIM announced it would offer a new assessment option starting in January 2018, allowing doctors to be recertified through shorter, but more frequent, assessments. A debate has erupted within medicine over how to ensure that physicians maintain their clinical skills throughout their careers. The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has long required internists to pass Maintenance of Certification exams every 10 years to keep their board-certified status. MORE
In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. No one doubts that the future belongs to the Internet of Things. MORE
” (Harvard Business School Press, April 2018). How will AI change strategy? That’s the single most common question the three of us are asked from corporate executives, and it’s not trivial to answer. AI is fundamentally a prediction technology. As advances in AI make prediction cheaper, economic theory dictates that we’ll use prediction more frequently and widely, and the value of complements to prediction – like human judgment – will rise. MORE
Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that SET jobs will increase by 17% between 2008 and 2018, a growth rate nearly twice that of non-SET employment. Virginia Rometty at IBM. Marillyn Hewson at Lockheed Martin. Meg Whitman at HP. Ellen Kullman at DuPont. Marissa Mayer at Yahoo. MORE
Stringer’s website observes that “These costs are projected to rise over the next four years to $782 million by FY 2018, a figure that is greater than the FY 2015 budget for the Parks Department, Department of Aging, and New York Public Library combined.”. MORE
Mexico’s fast-approaching July 2018 general election, of which the populist leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is the current frontrunner, is further making the case for incremental investments by multinationals corporations. YOY in 2017–2018. In this case, NAFTA negotiations remain undecided beyond Mexico’s 2018 elections, but the populist surge fails to materialize in the country and the center-right PAN narrowly defeats López Obrador. MORE
For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. MORE
Early-stage planning is under way to introduce the methods in other regions in Scotland, beginning in 2018. While there have been significant strides in providing frontline clinicians with quality information, these clinicians still lack the tools they need to play an active role in controlling the costs of the care they provide. MORE
These preferences are reflected in the outlines of tax proposals released in the past year by the Trump campaign, the Trump administration and House Republicans, and the budget proposals of the Trump administration and the House Budget Committee’s 2018 budget resolution. The current U.S. presidential administration and congressional leadership have spent months talking about tax reform. MORE
However, Tesla recently said that its gross margins on the Model 3 could hit 25% in 2018, which is comparable to the Model S and X and nearly twice as high as gross margins from Ford and GM. Laura Schneider for HBR. Elon Musk is having a moment. Tesla just delivered its first Model 3, the affordable model that he envisioned in his “secret” strategy some 11 years ago. He wanted to build a sports car, then build a more affordable car with zero emissions. MORE
Assuming the company can overcome its “manufacturing hell,” Tesla may well deliver all the 500,000 pre-ordered Model 3s by the end of 2018. Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders. MORE
Note that the table implicitly projects limited investment and a slow start to the new growth initiatives, with no new revenues in 2017, modest new revenues in 2018, and significant new revenues really only beginning in 2020 and 2021. If the firm sought to drive serious growth in 2017 and 2018, a lot more resources would be required much earlier. Many executives are fond of promising to deliver growth, but far fewer realize those ambitions. MORE
It’s estimated that by 2018 the average employee will send and receive 140 messages per day. MORE
State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The draft law is expected to be published in October and includes sanctions for companies that don’t comply, including fines, exclusion from government tenders, and a ban on public subsidies. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7 MORE
The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. jennifer maravillas FOR HBR. In the early 1930s, cars in Europe were still a luxury for the rich. MORE
Candidate vaccines for Zika won’t begin large-scale trials until 2017 and, assuming they work safely, would not be available until 2018 or later. As Congress plays politics over emergency funds requested months ago , Zika is on the verge of spreading across the United States. MORE
By 2018, if today's college graduation rates hold as steady as they have for decades, the U.S. As Harvard Business Review has focused this month on U.S. competitiveness , one theme has been the challenge of training the next generation of leaders. MORE
Gartner recently estimated that through 2018 “80% of IoT implementations will squander transformational opportunities” and fail to monetize IoT data. Many companies begin an internet of things (IoT) journey with great expectations, only to end up with disappointing business results. And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success. MORE
The only numbers we have so far is that the companies expect $150 million in annual savings by 2018. Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn is big and bold — and likely to be consequential. Precisely how consequential and in what way is still a puzzle to observers. MORE
Business users sent and received on average 121 emails a day in 2014, and this is expected to grow to 140 emails a day by 2018. MORE
In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. MORE
In the US, around 70% of small businesses have a website, but over 90% of those that don’t have a site plan to have one up and running by 2018. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve probably noticed that putting your business on the map is no mean feat. MORE
” The last time November 2 fell on a Friday was in 2012, and the next time is in 2018; essentially, the clock was off by about three years and eight minutes! HBR STAFF. Managers use measurements every day to guide their analyses, decisions, and planning. MORE
FirstBuild revenues and profit margins are on track to make it a fully self-funded enterprise in 2018. Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation. MORE
By the end of 2018 it will be 50%. In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare diseases. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” ” Likewise, she determined that just 29% of her 56 outpatient doctor visits were useful. MORE
While we expect the first to occur by 2018, the Cuban government has already begun to slowly move toward unifying its two currencies. MORE
New York recently became the fifth state to pass paid parental leave. Obviously, this action has major implications for U.S. employers, since the United States is the only developed nation without paid maternity leave. MORE
Our IT leaders also served on Obama Administration committees that wrote requirements for patient-generated health data into 2018 federal health care IT regulations, thereby ensuring the concept’s longevity. MORE
Another 24% of companies plan to make the transition by 2018. Is the next statement true or false? Enterprise-wide analytics is REALLY difficult. It’s difficult to set up, difficult to maintain, and difficult to determine its impact on the business. What do you think? MORE
million new jobs to be created in the SME sector by 2018 will be created by woman-owned SMEs. Women''s entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point. MORE
But to win in the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential election, the opposition does not need to convince everyone who voted for Trump. To succeed, the opposition needs to treat each of these four types differently, with an eye to how they will affect Trump’s popularity by the 2018 and 2020 elections. MORE
According to the Consumer Electronics Association , drone shipments will increase from 250,000 units in 2014 to nearly a million by 2018. MORE
State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The draft law is expected to be published in October and includes sanctions for companies that don’t comply, including fines, exclusion from government tenders, and a ban on public subsidies. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7 MORE
mid-term elections in November 2018? Does the new Cuban leader , who takes over in February 2018, accelerate economic reforms? President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. The move made it possible to imagine an end to the U.S. embargo of Cuba (which remains firmly in place) and a consequently sharp improvement in Cuba’s economic conditions. MORE
A 2013 Towers Watson survey found that the percentage of employers expecting voluntary benefits to be very important to their rewards strategy will jump from 21% in 2013 to 48% in 2018. MORE
The new administration should not back away from current goals to, by the end of 2018, shift half of Medicare fee-for-service payments to alternative models that explicitly reward value. On January 20 Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. How exactly he and the Republican-controlled Congress will reshape U.S. MORE
The Ethiopia Experience is one of the initial projects and begins January 2018 in Addis Ababa. In addition, selections for the 2018 Coaching Grant will match pioneer Ethical Coaches to Ethiopian organizations. MORE
For example, in a downside scenario, in which Venezuela resembles Cuba, the current government could decide to cancel presidential elections slated for December 2018 indefinitely and take control over private sector activities with the aid of the military. In a slightly less pessimistic scenario, President Maduro’s government would maintain presidential elections in 2018, only to allow hand-picked candidates from its own ranks and the opposition to run for the presidency. MORE
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JANUARY 24, 2017
Ask each member of your team to write you a letter, as if it were January 2018. If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag.
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 6, 2017
In the US, around 70% of small businesses have a website, but over 90% of those that don’t have a site plan to have one up and running by 2018. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve probably noticed that putting your business on the map is no mean feat.
Strategy Driven
JUNE 15, 2015
Business users sent and received on average 121 emails a day in 2014, and this is expected to grow to 140 emails a day by 2018.
Strategy Driven
JULY 2, 2015
A 2013 Towers Watson survey found that the percentage of employers expecting voluntary benefits to be very important to their rewards strategy will jump from 21% in 2013 to 48% in 2018.
The Kini Group
AUGUST 8, 2016
Another 24% of companies plan to make the transition by 2018. Is the next statement true or false? Enterprise-wide analytics is REALLY difficult. It’s difficult to set up, difficult to maintain, and difficult to determine its impact on the business. What do you think?
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2012
By 2018, if today's college graduation rates hold as steady as they have for decades, the U.S. As Harvard Business Review has focused this month on U.S. competitiveness , one theme has been the challenge of training the next generation of leaders.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
For example, in a downside scenario, in which Venezuela resembles Cuba, the current government could decide to cancel presidential elections slated for December 2018 indefinitely and take control over private sector activities with the aid of the military. In a slightly less pessimistic scenario, President Maduro’s government would maintain presidential elections in 2018, only to allow hand-picked candidates from its own ranks and the opposition to run for the presidency.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2017
” (Harvard Business School Press, April 2018). How will AI change strategy? That’s the single most common question the three of us are asked from corporate executives, and it’s not trivial to answer. AI is fundamentally a prediction technology. As advances in AI make prediction cheaper, economic theory dictates that we’ll use prediction more frequently and widely, and the value of complements to prediction – like human judgment – will rise.
Marshall Goldsmith
JUNE 28, 2017
The Ethiopia Experience is one of the initial projects and begins January 2018 in Addis Ababa. In addition, selections for the 2018 Coaching Grant will match pioneer Ethical Coaches to Ethiopian organizations.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 13, 2014
Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that SET jobs will increase by 17% between 2008 and 2018, a growth rate nearly twice that of non-SET employment. Virginia Rometty at IBM. Marillyn Hewson at Lockheed Martin. Meg Whitman at HP. Ellen Kullman at DuPont. Marissa Mayer at Yahoo.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2014
Stringer’s website observes that “These costs are projected to rise over the next four years to $782 million by FY 2018, a figure that is greater than the FY 2015 budget for the Parks Department, Department of Aging, and New York Public Library combined.”.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
million new jobs to be created in the SME sector by 2018 will be created by woman-owned SMEs. Women''s entrepreneurship has hit a media tipping point.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 8, 2017
However, Tesla recently said that its gross margins on the Model 3 could hit 25% in 2018, which is comparable to the Model S and X and nearly twice as high as gross margins from Ford and GM. Laura Schneider for HBR. Elon Musk is having a moment. Tesla just delivered its first Model 3, the affordable model that he envisioned in his “secret” strategy some 11 years ago. He wanted to build a sports car, then build a more affordable car with zero emissions.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 16, 2017
Assuming the company can overcome its “manufacturing hell,” Tesla may well deliver all the 500,000 pre-ordered Model 3s by the end of 2018. Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders.
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The draft law is expected to be published in October and includes sanctions for companies that don’t comply, including fines, exclusion from government tenders, and a ban on public subsidies. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
State-owned companies would be required to introduce the quotas by 2018 to set an example for other firms.” NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: A European Union (EU) proposal could require that corporate boards include 40% women by 2020.The draft law is expected to be published in October and includes sanctions for companies that don’t comply, including fines, exclusion from government tenders, and a ban on public subsidies. Aoife White explains on Bloomberg Businessweek: “Some 13.7
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2015
According to the Consumer Electronics Association , drone shipments will increase from 250,000 units in 2014 to nearly a million by 2018.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 22, 2016
The Volkswagen leadership set a new overarching goal for the company: to become the world’s largest automaker by 2018. jennifer maravillas FOR HBR. In the early 1930s, cars in Europe were still a luxury for the rich.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 17, 2016
” The last time November 2 fell on a Friday was in 2012, and the next time is in 2018; essentially, the clock was off by about three years and eight minutes! HBR STAFF. Managers use measurements every day to guide their analyses, decisions, and planning.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2016
It’s estimated that by 2018 the average employee will send and receive 140 messages per day.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 15, 2016
The only numbers we have so far is that the companies expect $150 million in annual savings by 2018. Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn is big and bold — and likely to be consequential. Precisely how consequential and in what way is still a puzzle to observers.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2017
FirstBuild revenues and profit margins are on track to make it a fully self-funded enterprise in 2018. Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 12, 2017
Note that the table implicitly projects limited investment and a slow start to the new growth initiatives, with no new revenues in 2017, modest new revenues in 2018, and significant new revenues really only beginning in 2020 and 2021. If the firm sought to drive serious growth in 2017 and 2018, a lot more resources would be required much earlier. Many executives are fond of promising to deliver growth, but far fewer realize those ambitions.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2016
In the manufacturing sector alone, market intelligence firm IDC expects the IoT market to grow to about $100 billion by 2018, a five-year combined annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18%. No one doubts that the future belongs to the Internet of Things.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 16, 2016
While we expect the first to occur by 2018, the Cuban government has already begun to slowly move toward unifying its two currencies.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2017
Publicis now gets 50% of its revenue from digital—that’s ahead of its 2018 target. Even for experienced deal makers, a first digital acquisition is bound to be an education. Companies acquire to accelerate their overall strategy and digital transformation, as Publicis Groupe did when it acquired Sapient for $3.7 billion in 2014 to help it make the leap from a traditional advertising company to a digital one.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2017
For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc. launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 10, 2016
The new administration should not back away from current goals to, by the end of 2018, shift half of Medicare fee-for-service payments to alternative models that explicitly reward value. On January 20 Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. How exactly he and the Republican-controlled Congress will reshape U.S.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 24, 2017
By the end of 2018 it will be 50%. In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare diseases. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. So unlike your average patient, she described one 12-hour wait in the ER as having a “7% process cycle efficiency.” ” Likewise, she determined that just 29% of her 56 outpatient doctor visits were useful.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 11, 2017
Early-stage planning is under way to introduce the methods in other regions in Scotland, beginning in 2018. While there have been significant strides in providing frontline clinicians with quality information, these clinicians still lack the tools they need to play an active role in controlling the costs of the care they provide.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 16, 2013
By 2018, 485,000,000 wearable computing devices will ship globally, including smart watches and smart clothing, according to ABI Research.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 13, 2016
New York recently became the fifth state to pass paid parental leave. Obviously, this action has major implications for U.S. employers, since the United States is the only developed nation without paid maternity leave.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 18, 2016
Candidate vaccines for Zika won’t begin large-scale trials until 2017 and, assuming they work safely, would not be available until 2018 or later. As Congress plays politics over emergency funds requested months ago , Zika is on the verge of spreading across the United States.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 7, 2017
Gartner recently estimated that through 2018 “80% of IoT implementations will squander transformational opportunities” and fail to monetize IoT data. Many companies begin an internet of things (IoT) journey with great expectations, only to end up with disappointing business results. And a new survey by Cisco found that one-third of all completed IoT projects were not considered a success.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2016
In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
But to win in the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential election, the opposition does not need to convince everyone who voted for Trump. To succeed, the opposition needs to treat each of these four types differently, with an eye to how they will affect Trump’s popularity by the 2018 and 2020 elections.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2017
In response, the ABIM announced it would offer a new assessment option starting in January 2018, allowing doctors to be recertified through shorter, but more frequent, assessments. A debate has erupted within medicine over how to ensure that physicians maintain their clinical skills throughout their careers. The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has long required internists to pass Maintenance of Certification exams every 10 years to keep their board-certified status.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 14, 2015
Our IT leaders also served on Obama Administration committees that wrote requirements for patient-generated health data into 2018 federal health care IT regulations, thereby ensuring the concept’s longevity.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 22, 2017
These preferences are reflected in the outlines of tax proposals released in the past year by the Trump campaign, the Trump administration and House Republicans, and the budget proposals of the Trump administration and the House Budget Committee’s 2018 budget resolution. The current U.S. presidential administration and congressional leadership have spent months talking about tax reform.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 4, 2017
SpaceX, taking a page from NASA’s playbook, just announced that it will fly tourists around the moon in 2018.). Project Apollo Archive/NASA. In January Google ended Project Titan, an initiative to blanket the earth in Wi-Fi with the help of solar-powered drones. It was the latest in a series of Google’s moonshot projects being closed. With the announcement, some in the media concluded that the Google moonshot was essentially dead.
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