The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 25, 2022

“With tightening market liquidity, investors have become more selective and are refocusing on companies that demonstrate resilient business models and profitable growth, while embedding ESG [environmental, social and governance] as part of their core business values.”. Fallow times.

IPO 128

IPO Uncertainty Energy Finance 128

Lead from Within

JULY 31, 2023

So even during times of uncertainty and volatility, staying consistent in your leadership and being intentional about practicing the traits outlined above will keep you on track. Innovation is key, especially when operating environments are changing quickly. Leaders become great leaders because they are consistent.

Leadership 125

Leadership How To Leadership Styles Competitive Advantage 125

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Growth has always been fundamental to business success, but it's never been more critical than it is now. Rapid changes in technology, shifting customer expectations, disruptive business models, and quickly evolving regulations force organizations to innovate quickly and invest in new lines of business that will fuel future growth.

Uncertainty 93

Uncertainty Business Model Globalization Innovation 93

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Innovation Capital. A great idea may not be enough to build a great business. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. He offers a unique perspective on innovation and winning in the marketplace. The Components of Innovation Capital. Would you share that briefly?

Innovation 83

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 83

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The uncertainty and complexity of data in the future underpins the four scenarios produced by the authors: Divergent data nationalism , whereby citizen engagement is low on data issues such as privacy and trust, which gives rise to nationalistic data policies and minimal technological innovation.

System 123

System Business Model Report Policies 123

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts.

Innovation 114

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

This one little question lies at the intersection of two big fields – leadership and innovation. Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts.

Innovation 113

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Given the nascent nature of the technology, the authors accept that it’s difficult to accurately gauge the size of the market, but this uncertainty should not dissuade companies or prompt them to underestimate the importance of it to their business.

Maturity 88

Maturity Trends Technology Uncertainty 88

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

New research from Harvard Business School suggests that as well as helping rethink business models, digital technologies can also help organizations rethink their models for sourcing talent. Sourcing talent.

Agility 120

Agility Business Model Survey Policies 120

QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Generational shifts at workplace combined with business model disruptions is only adding to the woes of being a leader in the current times. Constant improvement (and innovation) in products and processes is one of the ways to maintain positive momentum. People’s expectations from their leaders are increasing all the time.

Leadership 184

Leadership Uncertainty Agility Learning-by-Doing 184

CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Building Resilience and Adaptability : In today’s ever-changing business landscape, the ability to adapt and be resilient is vital. Coaches help you develop these qualities, ensuring you can navigate and thrive in the face of change and uncertainty.

Leadership Development 78

Leadership Development Development Succession Execution 78

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

As Brexit-related uncertainty engulfs the UK, with both the Government and its citizens trying to prepare for an unknown future, elsewhere in Europe there are brighter and more optimistic skies. The E-Residency initiative and its succeeding 2.0

Pharmaceuticals 70

Pharmaceuticals Entrepreneur Politics Globalization 70

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. There will be no new normal, but rather a willingness to embrace uncertainty. We saw something new taking hold a few years ago – San Francisco had usurped Silicon Valley as the new center of tech innovation.

Entrepreneur 110

Entrepreneur Incubator Open-book Learning-by-Doing 110

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. “Culture” can sound like a catchall, a convenient way to place the blame outside the realm of policy, but I am talking about one specific dimension of culture: avoiding uncertainty. .

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Innovation Hofstede Bureaucracy 8

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Iger truly embraces innovation. The decision to disrupt a business model that is working for you requires no small amount of courage. When you do it, you’re saying to people who for their entire careers have been compensated based on the success of their traditional business: “Don’t worry about that too much anymore.

Leadership 215

Leadership Long-term Self-aware Short-term 215

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.” These are the leaders with the Phoenix Attitude.

Leadership 65

Leadership Charan Bureaucracy Micromanagement 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the new book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.” These are the leaders with the Phoenix Attitude.

Charan 65

Charan Bureaucracy Books Micromanagement 65

Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2015

They thrive in uncertainty. Combining sound judgment with imaginative vision, Producers think up entirely new products, services, strategies, and business models. Self-made billionaires have what the authors call the Producer mind-set.

Mass Marketing 150

Mass Marketing Follow-up Maturity Operations 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

Business Model 15

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

According to the October 2013 Harvard Business Review, the major obstacles to business model innovation are fear and uncertainty. Eighty percent of corporate executives rank business model innovation ahead of the development of new products and services in terms of importance.

Resistance 50

Resistance Business Model Learning-by-Doing Quality 50

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Strategic agility enables entire enterprises to detect and assess major trends and environmental changes and dynamically adapt their vision, business models, human capital and strategy to the new reality. Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty.

Agility 91

Agility How To Decentralization Morale 91

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

For many companies considering how digital technologies could or should transform their business models, the questions they face are questions of unprecedented uncertainty, where past experience may be no help. The greatest temptation is to replicate your current business model digitally. Insight Center.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Uncertainty Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by the Economist Corporate Network in Singapore about innovation in Asia. But what I really wanted to discuss were the three biggest trends I see affecting innovation in the region. Tuck Professor Vijay Govindarajan calls this reverse innovation. A focus on business models.

Trends 15

Trends Innovation Govindarajan Class 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic. Test to learn.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Most leaders are taught to avoid uncertainty. Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? Surprise is the enemy. Here’s the fundamental problem.

Uncertainty 164

Uncertainty Meyer How To Disruptive Innovation 164

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

Business Model 8

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

One of the most common complaints senior executives have about disruptive innovation is its seemingly snail-like pace. How is it, they wonder, that it takes us forever to pursue ideas that promise to create new markets when the world seems to be innovating at a dizzying pace? Measure learning, not results. What do you still not know?"

Innovation 9

Innovation Venture Capitalist Uncertainty Strategic Planning 9

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. But as execution capabilities become commodities, and the life cycles of new offerings get increasingly shorter, it’s precisely these innovation skills that need to be learned.

Innovation 120

Innovation Business Model Franchising Trends 120

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. I first encountered the idea of developing a one-page business model in 2007 when I came across the Osterwalder model on the web.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

This dynamic will persist for many years as technology improves and businesses learn to apply it in new ways. Companies that focus on defending established business models will lose in the long run. Companies with foresight will pursue transitional models to be part of driving the change. Insight Center.

Business Model 8

Business Model Constraint Technology Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

When Karl Ronn recently said, "Companies that think they have an innovation problem don't have an innovation problem. I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups.

Innovation 9

Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear. They won't let me take risks."

Innovation 15

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Team members assumed that meant going back to the drawing board to develop a business model that would be profitable in smaller cities. Certainly, the end goal of many innovations is to generate financial returns. Innovation' Smaller cities just couldn''t support that overhead. What are ultimate revenue targets?

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Construction Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

It employed a business model that would make it very difficult for the current market leader to respond. Of course there were many uncertainties behind those projections, but the team had a smart plan to address critical ones rigorously and cost effectively. Budgeting Disruptive innovation' Carol began to look impatient.

Innovation 8

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? 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. Growth strategy Innovation'

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

Digital business models are a bit of a misnomer. Just ask Sony about Minidisc players and Netflix about their DVD business. In the last century, industrial business models were defined by their use of machines to create increasing returns to scale. Launch: Vision and Uncertainty. Exponential is out for 10X.

How To 8

How To Business Model Uncertainty Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Netflix's announcement that it is splitting off its DVD-by-mail business from its streaming business is just such an experiment. The DVD business will now go by the name Qwikster, and the streaming business will stay under the Netflix brand. Music to any innovator's ears.

Disruptive Innovation 14

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Long-term Christensen 14