The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Predictions of technological change are often very similar, which perhaps explains why the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) famously found that just 10% of technology predictions made by experts between 1990 and 2007 were accurate.

Technology 113

Technology Survey Fashion Information Technology 113

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. I Think Not.

Blog 288

Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 288

HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Computer and information systems managers. Also known as information technology managers, such professionals devise, coordinate, implement, and analyze computer-related projects. A bachelor’s degree or a more specialised degree in computers or informational technology is required. Percentage of women: 52%.

Human Resources 52

Human Resources Chemicals Software Engineering 52

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2021

. “We find the same thing when we look at other automation technologies, such as numerically controlled machinery or automated machine tools,” they explain. Importantly, it’s not a trend that is observed for non-automation technologies, such as computers and more standard information technology.

Company 108

Company Trends Technology Industry 108

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

The best way to understand the trajectory of your high performance career tomorrow is to look at what's happening to college undergraduates today. In the spirit of the "open source" and "open innovation" movements, that gives them greater power and influence. The Amazonified, Googlefied and Big Data-soaked — enriched?

Career 15

Career Company Human Capital Education 15

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

Magazine 52

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Shortly after the elimination of Geography here at Harvard, the discipline underwent a quantitative and computational revolution that eventually produced innovations like Google Maps and global positioning systems, to name just two. Design Information & technology Technology'

Core Competence 13

Core Competence Information Technology Library Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). “They cared about how I was developing and growing in my career but also as a manager, leader, and communicator.” Leadership as service.

Execution 14

Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

A lot of people are worried about the career choices of today’s most talented science and engineering students. That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. And not just their parents.

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Information & technology Marketing Social media' Fact: When it comes to marketing spending, analog still outstrips digital by a factor of three to one. How could this be?,

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

And then there''s politics: every politician wants to champion the "innovation" and growth aspects of the Internet, and there''s little to gain from highlighting what a dangerous place it really can be. A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Engineering Information Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

NGO 14

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered. Forward-thinking leaders are not just achieving measurable success in the short-term. Microsoft's enterprise services stagnated.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Cost Efficiency Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. Historically, people got to the C-suite by progressing up the career ladder in one discipline, moving among multiple companies until they made it to an executive role in finance, sales, etc.

CIO 8

CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The locus of value creation is shifting away from assembling innovative ensembles of technology and towards training those ensembles to be smarter than you are. Your career prospects are not bright if a machine has little to learn from you. Different doctors in different specialties will no doubt train their Watsons differently.

Core Competence 12

Core Competence Human Capital Technology Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Or maybe we're more miserable in a particular career than we're willing to admit. In fact, Quantified Self hosts health experiments as well as career-focused ones. As a result, staff researchers have a radically new source of data to inform the way the company should support and innovate knowledge-work.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative Wireless Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

However, after decades these patterns reversed; large numbers of ordinary workers eventually saw robust wage growth thanks to new technology. Information technology automates the work of white-collar jobs and the pace of change is faster. Of course, circumstances are different today.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. Massive data storage capacity, super-fast data transmission and mobility devices—along with slick application program interfaces—have left companies scrambling to adapt.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

They often arrive with a reputation for being able to turn around a school quickly, as they’ve done this many times before in their career. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career.

Long-term 8

Long-term Education GDP Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

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Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

has been an innovation superpower. In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. vincent tsui FOR HBR. Since World War II, the U.S. Google got its start from a federal grant.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Competitive Advantage Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. focus and vision.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Taylor, chair of Columbia University's Department of Religion and author of a book critical of tenure , estimates that a college ties up between $10 million and $12 million of its endowment to support a single tenured professor for a 35-year career. And the classes can be more easily fine-tuned because of the online feedback they generate.

Engineering 10

Engineering Education Class Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Promise Zones Initiative , which awarded over $30 million last year to grantees to achieve objectives such as developing a complete continuum of cradle-to-career strategies and breaking down silos between community agencies. Health information and other technology.

Health Care 10

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2017

Equally important, however, is the need for technology experts who possess both the business and the people skills to collaborate across groups inside and outside the enterprise’s four walls. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

Succession 8

Succession ROI Technology Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

I had worked for several businesses during my career by that time that had become conglomerates, some fairly large, and then had divested themselves of various businesses. That’s the question that’s always the hardest for an incumbent to ask, because that’s the classic innovators dilemma. Information & technology Internet Strategy'

How To 13

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Even after only twenty minutes of play, you will generate several megabytes of data that “compose a high-resolution portrait of your psyche and intellect, and an assessment of your potential as a leader or an innovator.”. Hiring Information & technology Talent management' There’s more.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Class Information Technology Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

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. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today.

GDP 8

GDP Wilde Intangible Assets GAAP 8