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Estonia Highlights The Progress Made With Government-As-A-Platform

The Horizons Tracker

technologies, that were at the time growing apace via platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, could transform governments and better enable them to address the many challenges facing the world. billion per year can be saved through smarter use of digital technologies. Bedding in innovation. Digitizing government.

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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

Sustainability is the new business benchmark. Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. They will continue to propel global travel and commerce. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations.

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How Skills Will Be Crucial As We Adapt To The Post-Covid World

The Horizons Tracker

The report builds upon the Skills Benchmarking tool developed by the company to help organizations not only understand the skills they have, but how their workforce compares with their peers. The data highlights the rapid adoption of various digital technologies by small and medium-sized businesses during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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4 Ways Leaders Can Get More from Their Company’s Innovation Efforts

Harvard Business Review

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

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People Are the Puck

Harvard Business Review

Technologies will change, distribution channels for content will change, usage environments will change. This is often the reason why thoughtful quantitative analysis that incorporates macro-economic trends, market share, competitive strategies, retail analysis and technological assessments so often misses the mark. Think about it.

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Diagnose Your Customer Culture

Harvard Business Review

Our research, based on a quantitative study across more than 150 businesses, spanning various industries and functions, identifies seven cultural factors that drive customer satisfaction, revenue and profit growth, innovation, and new product success. They can be measured and benchmarked for any organization: 1. Customer Insight:?

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Getting to Zero, by Elephant or F-18

Harvard Business Review

A launch event for my new book, this gathering was designed to celebrate a new breed of innovators pushing towards net-zero-impact on various dimensions such as zero carbon, zero waste, zero toxics—even zero poverty and zero pandemics. (If This makes it almost impossible to benchmark their performance.