The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Engines of creation. It’s perhaps no surprise, therefore, that data from Rice University shows that market power today is more concentrated in the hands of a relatively small number of incumbents than ever before. This gummed-up process of innovation is not confined to big-company transformation.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 114

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2020

These new exascale systems combine the latest technologies in AI, engineering and science, to achieve performance faster than any supercomputer before. It provides platform-level integration between processors, open-source frameworks, and standard programming models that finally allow users to develop their own custom accelerated software.

Power 65

Power Management Software Benchmarking 65

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. Futurism: developing thinking and reasoning skills, rather than dwelling just upon techniques and processes. Quotes on The Future. ” Yogi Berra. About the Author.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Michael Lee Stallard presents Develop the Heart of a Champion posted at Michael Lee Stallard. posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.” William Matthies presents Instead, How About. Mike Henry Sr.

Blog 218

Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

To cultivate empowered, collaborative, cross-functional teams, we have been experimenting with a new approach to performance development. Development is forward looking and ongoing; managers coach rather than critique; suggestions can come from anyone in an employee’s network.

Development 8

Development Engineering Benchmarking Cost 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Finely develop skills in every aspect of the organization, beyond the scope of professional training. Develop and share own philosophies. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation.and will market their services accordingly. Let the buyer beware.

Article 50

Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Instead, our interviews found a willingness to let organizational forms and structures evolve naturally, developing in line with the identity of the enterprise. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

From targeted online advertising to more precise recommendation engines, consumer markets are bursting with innovation around machine learning and advanced analytics. Data-Driven Marketing. The service provides benchmarks and insights to ensure sustainable, cost-effective improvements in blast performance. Insight Center.

B2B 8

B2B Chemicals Venture Funding Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2018

The people analytics team was surprised — as was finance team in that country, which had no reason to benchmark themselves against other countries and had no idea that they were such a bright spot. One people analytics team in an engineering company was struggling to help develop the company’s managers, for example.

Process 15

Process Strategy Benchmarking Storytelling 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

CAPM 8

CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Consider that improving Netflix's recommendation-engine accuracy by about 10% proved so challenging that only two teams — of tens of thousands from over 180 countries competing for the $1 million prize — were able to hit the goal. Big data is great. And they're hard to build. Analyze and Discover.

Metrics 15

Metrics Media PR Benchmarking 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

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. That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

This is especially true in the commercial buildings market, specifically large commercial buildings, where well over 75 percent of existing buildings will still be in use in fifteen years’ time. To gain market traction, retrofits need to be: Relevant (appropriate to their building).

NPV 8

NPV Energy Efficiency Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

By dedicating a small amount of space on every page viewed and allowing companies to display ads, the social networking giant has developed a multi-billion dollar advertising business. They believe that the API improves user experience and makes product development both quicker and simpler. display advertisements online.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. Emotional Intelligence.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

All through, Africa was on my mind as I benchmarked my new environment to what I left behind. I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology to help universities in the region develop capabilities in emerging areas like microelectronics, biotech, and nanotechnology. publicly traded companies.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Buffer sharing its revenue, performance metrics, and analysis on a public dashboard makes it easy for other companies to benchmark their own progress, evaluate the usefulness of different metrics, and apply Buffer’s learning to their own business. Build a mutually rewarding ecosystem.

Company 9

Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

While the execution of a conventional strategy lends itself to linear progress and clear benchmarks, innovation often proceeds by S-curves , moving at a slow crawl until it explodes at an exponential rate. Google’s “20% time” acts as a human-powered search engine for new problems. Build for the Few, Not the Many.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. Financial performance. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In 2009, he confessed to developing an ill-conceived plan to market GEICO credit cards and also failed to rein in NetJets' debt, which had soared to $1.9 In 2009, for example, he reported that Berkshire's property-casualty insurance businesses — the company's growth engine — had goodwill or intangible value of $15.5

Letter 14

Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

When evaluating talent for recruitment or development, you have just two key questions to answer: What should you assess? For example, the skills and knowledge required to be a good neurosurgeon are quite different from those needed to be a good lawyer, banker, or software engineer.) The what question is in part context-dependent.

Ethics 8

Ethics Emotional Intelligence Benchmarking Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Whether it's the stubborn inefficiencies of the health-care system , the ever-rising costs of the higher-education system , even the slow-motion collapse of the US postal system , leaders with unrivaled expertise and decades of experience can't seem to develop creative solutions to dire problems. billion — not a bad decade. "We

Banking 18

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 18

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

If we use an automobile analogy, sales efficiency (SE) initiatives — like CRM, training, and KPI dashboards — improve the engine’s horsepower. Companies tend to do plans by business unit, regardless of the firm’s go-to-market approach (which often spans business units). Managers must manage this decision.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products CRM Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Society of Automotive Engineers has defined six levels of autonomy from level 0 – 5. While manufacturers have been working hard on the development of autonomous vehicles, the reality is that today the vast majority of vehicles for sale are only capable of providing level 2 assistance features. Reduce manufacturing cost and time.

Engineering 10

Engineering Automotive Supply Chain Software 10

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Business development. Executives are not fully prepared to handle challenges of the moment, much less to begin developing Big Picture thinking. Develop a true corporate culture. Inspires the development of organizational Vision. Mentorship and leadership development. Sales or marketing support.

Strategic Planning 69

Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 69

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

This is especially true when businesses are considering entering emerging markets or aim to realize opportunities to create high-performance, high-value products and services that appeal to consumers in poor and rich countries alike. Engineers are very good at solving problems they know are problems.

Engineering 8

Engineering Innovation Constraint Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Insight Center.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Business development. When they want to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering… two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day. Unsuccessful marketing. Chasing the wrong leads, prospects or markets. Running the business. Do Nothing.

Planning 50

Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Leaders with a passion for developing employees’ skills, and those who understand the need to transfer knowledge among generations of workers, know how important it is to link in-house education to strategic planning. Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Business development. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Benchmarking. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Going downtown to do all of your shopping.

Planning 63

Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 63

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Business development. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. Benchmarking. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture. Going downtown to do all of your shopping.

Planning 62

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 62

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

While most corporate cultures are focused on engineering the most common goal of every business, some employers are repositioning their cultures to address social inequality as well as drive diversity & inclusion. My experience as a father also helps guide me in keeping our staff motivated and engaged. PHOTO: PHILIP MORRIS INTERNATIONAL.

Globalization 40

Globalization Human Resources Long-term Diversity 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Recruiting in today’s ultra-competitive job market is tough and success can often hinge on the team that you already have in place. Can you describe your work at your previous employer and specific projects you worked on, as well as your go-to development tools and programming languages?

Company 8

Company Benchmarking Storytelling Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

But Alphabet also stands for alpha-bets, i.e. bets on alpha (investment returns above a benchmark). Many tech companies have innovation- and engineering-driven cultures typical of nimble, improvisatory start-ups. As parts of a business portfolio grow and develop, different approaches to strategy and execution may be needed.

Strategy 8

Strategy Maturity Business Model Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

By contrast, companies with strong basic analytics — such as sales data and market trends — make breakthroughs in complex and critical areas after layering in artificial intelligence. With automated pricing engines, insurers and banks can roll out new offers as fast as online competitors. Structured data analytics.

Company 13

Company Telecommunications Retail Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Over the past two decades, we’ve led dozens of innovation projects and have talked to thousands of managers about the challenge of building a high-performance innovation “engine.” The engine may be otherwise well built, but without just one of these components, it will be essentially worthless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8