The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Research from Harvard Business School explores which places are actually best for remote working, whether in terms of industry, location, or even skill set. This training data was then used to enable WHAM to process more than 250 million job listings and categorize them according to location, job type, industry, and more.

Automotive 113

Automotive Advertising Industry Trends 113

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

“Our global assessment showed no significant differences of future readiness of SMEs at the regional or the industry level,” the authors say. The key takeaway from these results is that SMEs are neither disadvantaged by their geographical location nor industry space in moving towards future-readiness. Organizational agility.

Company 127

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 127

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. Satya Nadella.

Innovation 82

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 82

Talent Anarchy 1

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The rapid advancement of technology has given rise to an array of innovative solutions designed to streamline our lives and businesses. Applications of SmartEdge The versatility of SmartEdge technology lends itself to a wide range of applications across various industries. Here are some notable use cases: 1.

Technology 78

Technology Retail Resources Efficiency 78

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership.

Brand 193

Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

The findings emerged from a study of the automotive industry in nine developed countries, which collectively underwent 205 collective layoffs from 20 major brands over a 15 year period. It’s likely that the merit of the firm’s prior actions will be called into question, however, as will their future prospects.

Advertising 102

Advertising Automotive Restructuring Price 102

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2022

The researchers tracked the impact of robots in 741 regions across the United States and found that there was a noticeable fall in gender inequality in both income and workforce participation after the introduction of industrial robots. These results were consistent across industries, from the automotive to the electronics sector.

Long-term 67

Long-term Automotive Participative Influence 67

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2020

The changes in the automotive industry are massive. Automated cars may be experiencing a few snags right now, but there’s no doubt the technology will be on the market in the future. By partnering with manufacturers such as these, you can piggyback off their innovation. 21st Century Practices.

Automotive 69

Automotive Short-term Brand Self-aware 69

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

How To 100

How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. Data-Driven Marketing.

Automotive 8

Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

As you might suspect, Sam Walsh is a widely recognised name within the mining industry. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. Sam Walsh: At Rio Tinto, we had an innovation programme called “Mine of the Future”.

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 billion and is estimated to be worth $48 billion by 2026, with the Covid pandemic driving growth, especially in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, but also in sectors such as automotive and defense. “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps.

Stephenson 109

Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 109

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program. ’ Game.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Over 150 companies, including Durkee, Cremora, San Giorgio, Ronzoni, and McCormick, now use the entire line of Flapper products, and Weatherchem continues to lead the industry in offering the widest, most innovative array of closure products.

Committee 140

Committee Automotive Ethics Productivity 140

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

Innovation 12

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities.

Innovation 9

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 9

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus were dialed in to this focus long before social scientists and authors put a name to it; they used this deep sense of purpose to build The Home Depot and revolutionize the entire home improvement industry. Both men had recognized that global markets were opening and posed a risk to the company.

Leadership 97

Leadership Automotive System Motivation 97

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped?

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

In a country where academia and industry usually tread separate paths, it’s unusual to see the two innovate together. However, for such a technology to spread widely, a company like Saint-Gobain is needed to manufacture various materials on an industrial scale.

Industry 8

Industry Construction Energy Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Retooled industrial-age machinery sits alongside robotic-manufacturing equipment. Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry. But just as U.S. They employ 12.3

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And it is strangling both US competitiveness, and the ability for US firms to innovate. One of the prime drivers of economic growth inside America over the past century has been disruptive innovation ; yet the phenomenon that Lessig describes is increasingly being used by large incumbent firms as a mechanism to stave off the process.

Innovation 20

Innovation Transportation Disruptive Innovation Price 20

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Apple fanboys and Samsung’s “Next Big Thing”ers would hoot with derisive laughter if The Wall Street Journal or Financial Times reported that GM or Ford planned to rewrite the rules of smartphone innovation. They should. Could Sir Jonny Ive be the next Battista Pininfarina , Harley Earl, or Akihiro Nagaya ? I don’t.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

This shift is starting to pose an existential question for the automobile industry: What sort of cars will we need in 10 years? If the answer really is electric, autonomous ones, that will pose a huge challenge for an industry that has not fundamentally changed since the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line.

Industry 8

Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries. The five largest automotive companies in the world generate more than 750 billion euro in annual revenue. The names in the industry are global brands – BMW, Ford, Daimler. Information technology, however, is one of those industries.

Industry 8

Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

The fact that any of these theories could be true – and based on the share price movement, all of them are being applauded – says three important things about the nature of industries and competition today: Industries are increasingly irrelevant; it’s now the ecosystem that matters. Is Tesla even an automotive company?

Automotive 8

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets?

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. The second installment moves Tesla beyond the traditional car market, with a plan to reconfigure our cities, energy systems, and our impact on the environment. The first installment had been written in 2006.

Strategy 8

Strategy Automotive Mass Marketing Business Model 8

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.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

“What matters is the pace of innovation — that is the fundamental determinant of competitiveness.” Much of the pioneering work in that discipline was concerned with identifying which industries and which positions within an industry give companies an advantage by making them hard to copy.

Strategy 9

Strategy Competitive Advantage Porter Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The incubation system, the ecosystem and the environment are important, but sometimes, it can be a very simple "latent factor" ingenuity that redesigns not just a company, but an entire industry. Consider the software industry, where we have successful brands like Windows and Oracle. You can't resell that CD, legally.

Licensing 16

Licensing Software Automotive Incubator 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. This is certainly true. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

Gordon 8

Gordon Transportation Tourism Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win?

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Gulf Coast, an announcement by Flextronics of plans to create a $32 million product innovation center in Silicon Valley, and a decision by Airbus to build a $600 million assembly line in Alabama for its jetliners. And the New York Times recently ran an editorial by Steven Rattner entitled “The Myth of Industrial Rebound.”.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8