The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That we’re still largely waiting for such an immersive world to take hold, despite much-hyped initiatives, such as Second Life, perhaps underlines the difficulties the technology has had in keeping pace with such a vision. Digital twins. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 You simply cannot do that with 4G or with Wi-Fi. .”

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 85

Change Starts Here

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

About twenty years ago, I was an engineering co-op student at Delco Electronics (now Delphi), an automotive electronics company that at the time was a subsidiary of General Motors. One summer, the company put on a Technology Expo to show off all the futuristic technology they were developing. Meet Minimal Expectations.

Early Adopters 92

Early Adopters Automotive Technology Cost 92

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

While data is most powerful when it’s used across the organisation – from management and administration through to frontline workers – few organisations are actively investing in their employees’ ability to confidently use data.” ” New roles.

Skills 87

Skills Report Technology Long-term 87

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

In my new book “ The 4 Lenses of Innovation ”, I outline four proven ways to generate the new strategic opportunities that will power your company’s future growth. In other words, Larry Page sees Google as a broad portfolio of science, technology, and Internet-related resources that can be leveraged into almost any meaningful new venture.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. He is credited with inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and, most importantly, the electric light bulb and the accompanying distribution system for electric power. Innovation Capital. Moreover, it’s hard.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

An automobile industry trade consultant , for instance, observes that “Today, a typical automotive design cycle is approximately 24 to 36 months, which is much faster than the 60-month life cycle from five years ago.” This second graph, by Michael DeGusta of MIT’s Technology Review, presents similar results. Innovation Strategy'

Technology 17

Technology Automotive Competitive Advantage Innovation 17

Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. ” The Power of Questions. Talk about the power of a good question to crack complexity. “A A really, really good question has the power to be your anchor in that boiling sea of doubt. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity. ” -Komlos, Benjamin.

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Sull How To Insourcing Sharpe 70

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Dilenschneider, author of A Briefing for Leaders: Communication As the Ultimate Exercise of Power. It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” Bob Waterman has written a penetrating little book, Adhocracy: The Power to Change.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Black Enterprise Magazine ‘Top 100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America’ and ‘50 Most Powerful Women in Corporate America’. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Faculty of Columbia Business School.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies. Helping to effect this reversal are any number of new technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. To understand where this new mobility might take us, it’s important to distinguish between two types of AI-powered motor vehicles: self-driving and driverless.

Automotive 10

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 10

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Dilenschneider, Author of A Briefing for Leaders: Communication As the Ultimate Exercise of Power There are many fine values, such as courtesy, confidence, ingenuity, thrift, and so on. It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out."

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 15

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. The workers standing near him applauded. But we play in the real world.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

” In the automotive industry, we see the same thing: the best quality is associated with the greatest speed. This is why parts and processes developed for race cars are later used in leisure vehicles: “ the automotive industry has always relied upon motorsports-borne technology [i.e.,

Automotive 15

Automotive Quality Productivity Products 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In the tech startup world, technology is important for success, but it does not disproportionately determine winners and losers. Two companies can invent similar technologies; one will win and the other will lose. Focusing on technology supremacy alone is a model for failure. You can't resell that CD, legally.

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Licensing Software Automotive Incubator 19

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The automotive industry has opened up again. But what’s more likely is that in order to take full advantage of this new technology, everything will have to change. But what happens when the technology is good enough that accidents can be avoided entirely? With Apple’s entry, it’s clear.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

But, as Elon Musk surely understands, it is not always the best technology that wins the innovation race. Rather, it’s often the one that best fits with existing dominant technologies, so that the success of the two becomes interrelated. Powerwall therefore has all the characteristics needed to succeed in this market.

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Price Energy Technology Automotive 8

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. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Gordon Transportation Tourism Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Robots have been doing tough jobs for over half a century, mostly in the automotive sector, but they’ve probably had a bigger impact in Hollywood movies than on factory floors. Some of them are no longer bolted to the factory floor, and they’re moving beyond automotive manufacturing. That’s about to change.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Engineering System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2014

Shortly after, BMW and Nissan announced that they wanted to cooperate with Tesla on technology and standards. Tesla has challenged the automotive business model on other occasions: it disintermediated car dealerships and then adopted a switching station model. It also hopes to market some of its technology to other players.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Disintermediation Cooper Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

Automotive 11

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 11

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Clearly, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technologies are finding their way into most everything that we touch and use in everyday life, including consumer products, financial services and healthcare delivery. ” In October, Samsung Electronics unveiled Bixby 2.0,

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Press Release Automotive Innovation Technology 170

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This sustained and sophisticated software scam suggests truly pathological levels of managerial desperation and contempt: desperation around a failed promise of clean diesel technology and unsubtle contempt for unsuspecting regulators and customers alike. Precisely how gullible did these wizards of Wolfsburg think people would be?

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Due Diligence Automotive NGO Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Engineers are no longer design experts; they are mediators who structure and enable design interactions between imaginative customers and innovative suppliers of technologies and systems. The development of those tools—we call them engagement platforms—represents a major opportunity for product companies and technology developers.

Engineering 14

Engineering Automotive Objective Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

The five largest automotive companies in the world generate more than 750 billion euro in annual revenue. Information technology, however, is one of those industries. Beyond purchasing power, scale helps companies establish strong network effects. Transportation is one of the world’s largest industries.

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Industry Transportation Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. In contrast, the automotive industry has barely half the rate of digital reinventors. Experiment with frontier technologies.

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Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet compared to great technological inventions of the past, it is also a colossal economic disappointment. The technologies of the past had massive new job creation effects that swamped displacement effects. The Internet is one of humanity’s greatest technical advances. I’m talking about jobs. Others followed suit.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

The combined firm may benefit from economies of scale in doing so, but increases in market power may also result. The key issue is whether the merger reduces competition in the upstream or downstream market, or whether owning a supplier or a buyer gives the firm too much market power in its own industry. competitors.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. It was far easier to create the technology than to get the management agreement to use it across functions and country units. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

For instance, when Henry Ford disrupted the automotive world by building a company that used process assembly at scale to drive down cost, he abandoned the industry held belief that variety was important. Disruptive innovation Technology' Virtual reality is a way of experiencing the content within a computing platform. VR is insular.

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Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Freeways full of driverless cars and beer trucks are still far off, because of technological and regulatory limitations. To figure out how to effectively integrate software robots and digitization, executives can take some cues from the automotive industry.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

AutoEmotive , Affectiva’s Automotive AI , and Ford are racing to get emotional car software market-ready to detect human emotions such as anger or lack of attention, and then take control over or stop the vehicle, preventing accidents or acts of road rage. Systems that mimic and ultimately replace human-to- human interactions.

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Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology. Lublin’s example of Mark Fields’s experience at Ford is on point. Several executives in my study had the same experience.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

There are many reasons why Silicon Valley might have been a top contender: for years, it''s been the premier technology hub of the world. While no one can dispute Silicon Valley embodies the quintessential technology culture, there''s another piece of the culture equation that matters just as much for a company like ours: diversity.

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Software Diversity Engineering Industry 12