The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

A recent report from Dell highlighted the way COVID has accelerated the digital transformation efforts many organizations had been undertaking before the pandemic, albeit with areas such as cybersecurity getting as much investment as the rebuilding of business models. Missing out. Feeling vulnerable.

Osborne 83

Osborne Report Marketing Technology 83

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. And what are your strategic goals?

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

Blog 366

Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. These allow you to work towards something specific in your career whether that’s a better job role or a project that inspires you.

Examples 52

Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Lead author of Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , which sold over one million copies in 37 languages. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. a holding company that operates seven distinct business.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. First, they are less likely to take risks – which means they are unlikely to invent new products, processes, or business models. And it all starts in school.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. The likely results include new methods of furthering relationships, crafting longer term engagement, and creating transformational business models.

Directory 15

Directory System Media Video 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

Skills 14

Skills Morale Ethics System 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Library leaders knew that given the immense changes brought on by digital innovations, as well as shifts in the communities that the Library served, it would need to evolve. Innovation communities had been used by Best Buy to grow its portion of the women’s consumer electronics market by $4.4b in less than five years.

Library 8

Library Strategy Reference Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

If you're an MBA-trained manager or executive, the odds are you were never, at any point in your educational or professional career given permission to fail, even on a "little bet." Similarly, modern industrial management is still predicated largely on mitigating risks and preventing errors, not innovating or inventing.

Creativity 13

Creativity Six Sigma Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

In my teacher's mind, it was an investment in a future career. But my parents gave in, and purchased a beautiful viola that helped me sit 1st and 2nd chair in high school and college respectively, but doesn't help in my consulting career. And they are far more receptive to innovative pricing/profit model ("how you make money from it").

Price 8

Price Mass Marketing B2B Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

As we in the United States juggle major structural and operational changes and try to secure our financial systems as revenues fall, we must keep our promise of safety and high quality to every patient, every time. Leaders in the best systems have ways to hear the good and bad outcomes of care, and they have effective systems for improvement.

Crisis 8

Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 8

LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

I like to tell people that no interns are being harmed in or even used in the developing the model that I share. It’s all based on just watching the many hundreds of thousands of businesses that I’ve worked with, the 42 that I’ve personally launched in my career as a serial entrepreneur.

Brainstorming 60

Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Operations Leadership Styles 60

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Such ecosystems even the playing field for individuals and small firms to participate in technological progress, catalyzing both employment and innovation. Firms can help close the loop.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

B Corp certification encouraged more “whole-systems thinking” around our social and environmental practices, which led Cabot to develop even more robust customer and consumer programs, cut operating costs, and strengthen our brand reputation as a sustainability-minded company. . Attracting and Engaging Employees.

Cooper 8

Cooper Benchmarking Reputation Brand 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. You make an excellent case for cultural innovation and leadership. Thank you for restoring trust in the system. Sounds like an interesting event and line up. I could see anyone of them serving as the foundation for a great video. Thanks Mark.

Influence 359

Influence Blog Leadership Video 359

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

Lastly, and this is something we care about a lot, good failure should not result in career suicide. People are the core of a great organization and the processes and systems you use to hire, promote, and reward them can be both enablers and blockers.

Company 12

Company Tools Incentives Participative 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. He was also innovative. Once again, he had turned around a struggling company, transformed its business model and made its operations hum.

IT Strategy 8

IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard. Its success was achieved by a culture of innovation and the speedy introduction of new products.

Project 8

Project Productivity Products Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

There is mounting evidence that buybacks bear substantial blame for the extreme concentration of income at the very top and the disappearance of middle-class jobs in the United States over the past quarter century — a topic I discussed in a recent Harvard Business Review article. From 1986 through 1993, during the Sculley era, Apple spent $1.8

Innovation 10

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Accordingly, IoT is driving a shift in business structures from a one-company-does-it-all model to a let’s-work-together approach. Once a company understands that it is a node in an interconnected network, its business strategy must change externally and internally. They Update Their Talent Management Strategies.

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This integration of care will need to occur longitudinally across a patient’s life as he or she ages; vertically among primary, specialty, and hospital care; horizontally between health systems and between different participating sectors (e.g., These tools must be customized to the population and integrated across the system.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Many people do not typically think of metrics and accounting as roadblocks to innovation, yet you call these out as potential problem areas. Based on a combined thirty years of research and experience, Rita and Ian’s book provides a breakthrough system for managing strategic growth. Net present value [NPV] is a case in point.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. Born in Chennai, India, he came to the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Engineering Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

While social stuff is often associated with marketing or customer service, social can affect every part of the business model , including how we organize. Shared Purpose as an Alignment System. And, of course, this affects management's role and how we all manage our careers. More on that in future posts.). Work is freed.

Participative 15

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership practices, while remaining authentic, must be tailored to culture, beliefs, value systems, form of government, socioeconomic status, and other demographic variables. Leaders must employ a combination of leadership styles depending on the situation. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

Blog 406

Blog Leadership Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 406

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. Even under optimum conditions, an instant sale is not possible for a complex, enterprise-based system. Of course this depends on a company’s business model. Then, there is 50 Shades of Grey.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. Leaders must have the vision and forward-focus to anticipate how technology could disrupt the business model and the skill to mobilize the organization for change and drive a culture of collaboration.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Disaggregation Development Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Our education and professional training systems have failed to keep pace. Many workers have found, well into their careers, that their physical skills for making and transporting “things” are less relevant and valuable than the once were. One can certainly make the case that we are falling into an abyss.

GDP 8

GDP Wilde Intangible Assets GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

Republicans are following the wrong business model. The Republican model for selecting a president and other political leaders is now heavily weighted towards a relatively small number of huge donors — who don't come from the same world as ordinary voters and don't share their interests.

Marketing 8

Marketing Politics Health Care Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

And the cost in terms of lost output, lost jobs, lost houses, lost opportunities, as well as political repercussions, was so enormous that it seemed to mandate a very big rethinking of the financial system. “There’s no question that the system is safer as a result of this. The size and influence of U.S. Further Reading.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis System Compliance 8