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 95

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 95

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. Codeplay has long recognized the need to address a market looking for standards-based solutions — solutions that are easy to integrate between multiple vendors.

Power 65

Power Management Software Benchmarking 65

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

If your entity doesn’t innovate and change in accordance with market driven needs and demands it will fail…it’s just that simple. Measurement : Any change initiative should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

Leadership 397

Leadership Competitive Advantage Due Diligence Short-term 397

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. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. Scores on both surveys reset the benchmark inside the organization. A multidimensional approach to leadership development means encouraging leaders to make the intentional decision to step out of their comfort zones of competence.

Leadership Development 322

Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 322

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management” S. In today’s job market you need to be ambitious and driven if you don’t want to get pushed out by others who spot gaps that could have been filled by you.” Mike Henry Sr.

Blog 218

Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management". Guy Harris presents Three Power Phrases to Disarm a Verbal Aggressor posted at Guy Harris: The Recovering Engineer , saying, "How do you respond to coworkers or colleagues when they are verbally aggressive?

Leadership Development 248

Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation.and will market their services accordingly. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).

Article 50

Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

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

AUGUST 12, 2015

Just as they did under the EMS, managers still base compensation, promotion, and development decisions on these inputs (as well as a range of other factors, including business performance, internal and external benchmarks, and budgets). To do this, we needed all our teams, including Engineering, Procurement, and Manufacturing.

Development 8

Development Engineering Benchmarking Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Our recent benchmarking of nearly 900 B2B companies underscores the importance of these tools. Digital tools can also open new go-to-market approaches. They rely on backward-looking sales data and broad-brush reports to calculate overall market size and gauge how many reps they need and where to assign them. billion vs. $1.2

Team 10

Team Price B2B Tools 10

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. Good data is the foundation for the process.

Metrics 15

Metrics Media PR Benchmarking 15

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

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

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.

Company 9

Company Business Model Workshop Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Web developers can personalize recommendation engines, allow users to see their friends' purchase history, and draw on detailed demographic data available through the Facebook network. Private Market Valuations aren't Great Indicators of Public Returns The final reason for trepidation is probably the most important.

IPO 12

IPO Advertising IRR Venture Funding 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

We found that customer satisfaction is directly correlated with customer collaboration time (email and meetings) across all Microsoft roles and teams engaging with customers, including product engineering and marketing teams. Internal and external network size in comparison with benchmarks in their local areas.

Analysis 8

Analysis B2B Engineering Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Society of Automotive Engineers has defined six levels of autonomy from level 0 – 5. A few OEM’s in-market today have been working towards Level 3 & 4 automation, meaning the car can take over most driving functions , but the driver must still be able to intervene at any time. Navigating the Path to Pervasive Autonomy.

Engineering 10

Engineering Automotive Supply Chain Software 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

We're fortunate to own a leadership position amongst our traditional competitors but recognize that we're at a point at which our benchmark must move. For decades, the utility-metering industry was dominated by a handful of middle-market companies, many of which still run successful and profitable businesses. Audit the organization.

CEO 8

CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

All through, Africa was on my mind as I benchmarked my new environment to what I left behind. With Facebook’s $115 billion market cap on its IPO day, Mark Zuckerberg created wealth nearly equivalent to half of Nigeria’s GDP in 2012. publicly traded companies. Education drives technology.

Education 8

Education Technology IPO GDP 8

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

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 15

Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 15

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

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 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The pay ratio is also a misleading statistic because CEOs and workers operate in very different markets, so there is no reason for their pay to be linked — just as a solo singer’s pay bears no relation to a bassist’s pay. This consideration explains why CEO pay has risen much more than worker pay.

CEO 9

CEO Price Long-term Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

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. Web scraping.

Ethics 8

Ethics Emotional Intelligence Benchmarking Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

I first noticed Commerce back in the late '90s, when it was developing a reputation for creativity and had a stock-market value of $400 million. Whenever I spent time with the bank's leadership team, they were adamant about their disdain for traditional approaches to "benchmarking" the competition as well as for traditional banks.

Banking 17

Banking Retail Open-book Creativity 17

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Deliverables, benchmarks, deadlines, and success metrics must be incorporated into the plan. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Thanks David.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

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

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

He was an engineer that was convinced he had built the world’s best vacuum cleaner. Created a demand in the market with no product (a market vacuum if you will pardon the pun). When the cleaner finally emerged on the market, it was swept up (sorry again). So will the world! Advertised it before production was finished.

Hotels 50

Hotels Advertising Customer Loyalty Follow-up 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

He was an engineer that was convinced he had built the world’s best vacuum cleaner. Created a demand in the market with no product (a market vacuum if you will pardon the pun). When the cleaner finally emerged on the market, it was swept up (sorry again). So will the world! Advertised it before production was finished.

Hotels 50

Hotels Customer Loyalty Advertising Benchmarking 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

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). Value is in the products and services themselves.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Sales or marketing support. Visioning sets the stage for necessary processes, such as growth strategies, re-engineering, training, enhancing shareholder value and organizational development. Without visioning, other functions (marketing, human resources, financial, production, quality control, public relations, etc.) Philosophy.

Strategic Planning 68

Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 68

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.

Career 74

Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74