The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

These challenges meant that they overwhelmingly elected to go to larger companies that can help them with the bureaucracy, rather than the startup where their talents might be better put to use. They also draw attention to some of the regional inequalities that migration, and indeed technological innovation, can bring.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. billion, Amazon’s stock price rose 2.4%

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Today, Apple is riding high, making this the perfect time for it — and every successful company — to reflect on Nokia's fall and ensure that they don't suffer the same fate. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Smart headcount growth that optimizes technology is essential. Digital companies are rewriting the rules of how to grow a company by using technology to scale and minimizing headcount growth. In fact, as companies grow profit-wise, they may even end up shedding employees as technology advances. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. But it is a cost nonetheless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

David Kenny, the new head of IBM’s Watson, defines that business as “AI (artificial intelligence) as a service,” a central part of the data analytics market that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says is a $2 trillion opportunity. But what are their odds of success — and how do those odds compare to start-ups?

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 9

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

The genius of the book is that Eggers extends Silicon Valley’s existing technology and organizational practices no further than to their next logical steps (imagine Google on steroids), and only at the conclusion does he move to the illogical and chilling end to which they may be heading.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. Successful startups don’t stay entrepreneurial for long.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. Together, these attitudes and behaviors constitute a frame of mind that is one of the great and most undervalued secrets of business success. In the 1990s, for example, Nokia rocketed to the top of the handset market.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

Traditionally, the heart of any successful advertising agency has always been its creative department. The advertising campaign featured a rugged cowboy on horseback, an uncompromised man struggling not with a demoralizing bureaucracy but with the forces of the natural world. He smoked a cigarette "designed for men that women like."

Advertising 8

Advertising Objective Bureaucracy Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

The news that Cisco is dismantling its unique structure of councils and boards to reduce bureaucracy presents a cautionary tale and an insight into the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration in organizations. As each successive project was undertaken, differentiated roles and responsibilities were elaborated again.

Team 15

Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The big companies simply couldn't treat people the way we did, either because the bureaucracy wouldn't allow it, or because they had no concept of how to do it.". They were responding to yesterday's market. They are successful precisely because they don't look, talk, behave, or compete like other companies in their fields.

Insurance 15

Insurance Bureaucracy Innovation Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

According to one McKinsey study , the success rate for organizational redesign efforts is less than 25%. Intentional design can improve the health of the organization, position your team for success, and make life better for everyone. What are our markets? And yet when it comes to reorganization, they’re the norm.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company has made one of the largest technology acquisitions in history (EMC). Think of GoPro taking the small camera market from Sony or maybe Netflix, not the networks, creating the first real Internet television business.) As Michael told us, “I resonate strongly with the themes of the founder’s mentality.”

Energy 8

Energy Industry Bureaucracy Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The key to its success is how well Murphy & Associates evaluates talent. They go beyond the resume and interview and instead focus on key projects employees worked on, using their industry expertise and deep network to discern whether the projects were truly successful, and then they cross-check the impact of the person.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

When Americans reflect on what makes their military the best, it is not just its unrivaled technology, the nearly $600 billion dollars per year we spend on it, its compelling mission, or our network of global allies. At a time of economic, technological, and labor evolutions, organizations have to change to compete for the best talent.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

What we see and hear — and the conclusions we draw — influence for our lifetimes what we value, how we measure success, whom we trust, and the priorities we set for our own lives, including the role work will play within them. We also examined two European countries, the U.K.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. In my management 3.0

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S. What Causes Crises.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Today’s most competitive marketplace isn’t technology but talent. The challenge of attracting and retaining talent is particularly acute for marketers. Their function has been turned upside down and inside out as a result of digital technology, empowered employees, and connected customers. How: Think of it as marketing, not HR.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

If only you will buy their version of ‘The Answer,’ then you can surely fast-forward your way to instant riches, success and an easy life. This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Like its American compatriot Ford Motor Company , GM’s market share in India has always been in the single digits, but recently Ford has reported rising monthly sales of 36% in India. After all, we have seen dozens of large American players become successful in modern India. Understanding it takes time and focus.

CEO 9

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 9

Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

As he relates in Market Mover , the story had five parts: 1. Reduce Bureaucracy 3. Overhaul Technology 5. A focus on cash is vital, but it’s important to remember that you can’t save your way to success. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions.

Organization 257

Organization Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Technology 257

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

This requirement is in their very DNA or, better, the code we programmed into them when we invented them; seeing as how that was close to 1,000 years ago, corporations have had a pretty long and successful run as the dominant business entity. This doesn’t mean that corporations have stopped making money.

Technology 8

Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Over 50% of marketing and IT prefer a salesperson who will listen and match a solution to solve their specific needs. Moreover, this person is successful in getting the vendor they want selected 89% of the time. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge. In most industries a single company controls the market. The answer is yes.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based based internet companies and continued antitrust complaints by EU regulators.

Advertising 9

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The Healthy Heart program seeks to bring pacemaker technology to hundreds of thousands of Indians who desperately need it. No new technology was involved here — and that's the point. Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

We wanted to bring some of the advantages of the Internet to these populations, and had a hunch that the best way to go about it would be to use already-entrenched, familiar technologies. There are many risks and unknowns that come along with introducing a novel technology-based service to a developing world population.

Strategy 14

Strategy Short-term Price Bureaucracy 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. Ravi Venkatesan, the former Chairman of Microsoft India, offers inside advice on how your firm can overcome the unique challenges of the Indian market. The old way to market a business was storytelling. by Thomas H.

Books 8

Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Those seven entries offer compelling evidence that the principles, social structures, and social technologies of the web not only offer up winning business models, they are the building blocks of a new management model for making organizations more resilient, inventive, and engaging.

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

There are many anecdotes of high-growth ventures in all segments which got their starts in incubators, but there are also many more examples, less visible perhaps, of very success ventures that made no use of co-working space. In Israel there were three or four investors involved in many of the early successes.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

To guide M-Prize entries and would-be management innovators alike, here are a set of high-level principles can increase your chances of success when it comes to making an impact in your organization and impress judges of the M-Prize. As with most problem-solving, the most successful approaches to management innovation are human-centric.

Management 12

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Apple and Google have innovation in their DNA; they have many years of success to build on; and they have earned the license to take some risks. If these companies are successful, then they are likely to be much more effective role models than Apple or Google are. But that's a flawed approach. Loosely defined roles.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

One of the more successful stories of governments instituting an identity system is Estonia, with its ID-kaarts. As a result, the Estonian system provides its citizens with an all-digital government experience, significantly reduced bureaucracy , and significantly high citizen satisfaction with their government dealings.

System 8

System Document Bureaucracy Information 8