The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Payment protection insurance is increasingly widespread across the economy to protect people from unforeseen events, such as losing a job, becoming ill, or some other circumstances that prevent them from earning the income required to service a financial commitment.

Insurance 93

Insurance Reputation Uncertainty Transportation 93

Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 25, 2023

Product Development and Innovation For those who enjoy creativity and problem-solving, a career in product development and innovation within the consumer non-durables industry can be incredibly rewarding. Logistics Managers: These professionals oversee the transportation, storage, and distribution of products.

Career 78

Career Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals Industry 78

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

By 2003, not all industrial companies were fully committed to accommodating their organizations to new tools and following the principles described in Experimentation Matters. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more. ” -Stefan Thomke.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

HR Digest

MARCH 24, 2020

It is true that your performance also matters, but the company needs to be committed to help its employees develop and upgrade their skills. Too much supervision and structured processes are not conducive to independent thinking and innovativeness. Room for Growth. Does the new job give you opportunities to grow and advance?

Travel 69

Travel Career Seminar Transportation 69

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

A desire to act with courage, persevere and innovate; the ability to put others first, and a fun-LUVing attitude – these are the values that Southwest Airlines, the World’s Most Loved Airline, looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. Living the Southwest Way!

Airlines 80

Airlines Mission Statement Human Resources Learning-by-Doing 80

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. Respect for the founders’ commitment to service ran deep. Kohler’s multicultural team of associates even considered the color of the filtration system to avoid offending any culture.

Leadership 95

Leadership Automotive System Motivation 95

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Self-driving vehicles, once a science fiction technology, are rapidly becoming a reality that promises to transform our lives – making it safer and more efficient to move people and goods, while reinventing our thinking about transportation. Arizona startup Local Motors developed “Ollie,” the self-driving bus here.

Transportation 8

Transportation Content Committee Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The following six ideas emerged this past year as powerful "innovation invitations." They'll be sources of — and resources for — innovation differentiation this coming year. If your organization doesn't find them innovatively interesting, then be careful: they may be wielded by the competitors you most dread.

Innovation 16

Innovation Health Care Globalization Media 16

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

F2 Leaders – firm but fair leaders whom others trust – commit themselves to both relationship behavior and task accomplishment. Move beyond Problem Solving to Innovative Decision Making – As you climbed the stairs to your current position, others called on you to solve problems.

Execution 50

Execution Competitive Advantage Transportation Leadership Styles 50

Deming Institute

MARCH 9, 2017

But if the system requires maintenance which is difficult to get locally (either due to a lack of trained staff, poor transportation or poor spare parts availability) the solution may well not be very effective. Their mission is mentoring girls to lead and innovate through learning to code.

Technology 31

Technology System Deming Long-term 31

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? For the rest, we found that other factors besides innovation drove strong shareholder returns.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Transportation infrastructure must be renewed and reinvented. The state of transportation infrastructure has implications for every major issue. It touches the environment: transportation accounts for more than a quarter of U.S. Citizen voices and votes can encourage action. greenhouse gas emissions.

Transportation 8

Transportation Wireless Entrepreneur Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. In transportation, for example, on-demand options have roiled the market, and traditional taxis are fighting back, belatedly, with apps such as Arro and Way2Ride.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. Uber faced an important challenge in implementing this strategy: It isn’t easy to get people to commit crimes. Through these tactics, Uber muddied the waters. Rotten to the Core. Fixing the Problem.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

While they can start to tap into the global reserves of shale oil, which exist literally everywhere, developing the reserves in most places from China to Argentina will require a significant investment to develop the shale ecosystem and supply chains needed, in addition to the infrastructure to gather, treat, transport, and store the crude oil.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Freight transportation accounts for about 8% of global carbon emissions, and Scope 3 emissions account can account for 90% or more of a companies’ emissions. The evidence is clear that more diverse and inclusive organizations are more creative, innovative, and higher performing. What DE&I strategies have helped C.

Supply Chain 109

Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

degrees will require “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy, land, urban and infrastructure (including transport and buildings), and industrial systems” and this transition will need to be “unprecedented in terms of scale…and imply deep emissions reductions in all sectors.” Keeping the world at 1.5

Efficiency 12

Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

According to a recent Hyundai Motor Group press release , Dr. Young Cho Chi, Executive Vice President of Strategy & Technology Division and Chief Innovation Officer detailed: “Hyundai Motor is very interested in Israel’s ecosystem of technology innovation, especially in the sector of transportation.

Press Release 153

Press Release Automotive Innovation Technology 153

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The failure last month of green-tech start-up Better Place, which promised to free drivers and nations from oil dependence and revolutionize transportation, has generated both attention and derision. Innovation Strategy Transportation' But a blanket dismissal of its effort is a mistake.

Mass Marketing 8

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

He and his wife aren’t just race enthusiasts, they are social entrepreneurs: founders of Riders for Health , an organization that manages transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries across sub-Saharan Africa. By contrast, the humdrum issue of transportation infrastructure barely registers.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Health Care Transportation System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. It includes social factors (employment, family and social support, income, education), behaviors (diet and exercise, tobacco, alcohol and drugs, sexual activity), and the physical environment (housing, air and water quality, transportation). Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 8

Health Care Transportation Cost System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

I also love Uber as a student (and teacher) of disruptive innovation theory, because the challenges the transportation company is encountering as it seeks to expand into new cities helpfully illustrate how to assess an idea’s disruptive potential. Competition Disruptive innovation' It’s simple, and it works beautifully.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Disintermediation Business Model Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. Commitment to efficient value creation invariably inspires more thoughtful investment in the quality — not quantity — of staff.

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

There’s also potential to improve existing jobs by providing lower-skill workers with tools and encouragement, thereby improving customer service, reducing turnover, and promoting innovation and engagement. This type of approach has allowed the market to attract a diverse community that continues to inspire creativity and innovation.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

FedEx’s competencies in digital and transportational networks are its innovation platforms. By making design and software subservient to UX, rather than the other way around, Apple’s core competence in design is more accurately described as a core competence in committed user engagement.

Core Competence 8

Core Competence Prahalad Supply Chain Hamel 8

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

People are living longer with more access to medical care and innovations and progress in medicine. The responsibility can range from just shopping for essentials to arranging doctor’s appointments, providing transportation, taking care of finances and medicines or even a full-fledged role of assisting in their daily tasks. In the U.S.

Absenteeism 105

Absenteeism Policies Cost Human Resources 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. Other failed products either answer a question no one cares about or are the wrong answer to the right question – Google Glass or the Segway personal transporter, for example.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Price Arkes 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This time, nearly every country is entering the discussions with a legitimate commitment to cut carbon. And while the live negotiations are important, the key discussions, those within each country to decide what it could commit to, happened months ago. What will be the likely outcome out of the talks? For example, the U.S.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Advanced logistics, transportation, storage, and processing are also crucial for making sure that food goes from where it grows in abundance to where it doesn’t. First and foremost, farmers, trading companies, and other processing groups (Big Food in particular) need to commit to deforestation-free supply chains.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Policies Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. That has resulted in some misconceptions that can be counterproductive in the quest for innovation.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

It previously approved the Golden Sun initiative for the first half of this year and committed prodigious amounts of government cash to the sector. According to Barron's and others, China has already begun implementing its ambitious plan to increase installations. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects.

Industry 9

Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

It’s big news and a very good start, but the deal has a major flaw: the commitments will not keep the world from warming 1.5 For example, China committed to implement a carbon cap and trade system , Britain said it would phase out coal plants by 2025, and President Obama vetoed the Keystone pipeline. No, this was about fraud.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Santa Fe Transport and Regents of the University of California v. Instead, most firms rely on symbolic public commitments to equal opportunity, occasional diversity training, and defensive legal responses to discrimination complaints as their core diversity practices. What''s wrong with these approaches?

Diversity 8

Diversity Human Resources Benchmarking Handbook 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Commitment to social entrepreneurship may mean lower lifetime earnings. So talk of “proper compensation” may be a signal that a particular entrepreneur is not a good fit for our model, which demands deep commitment to the social purpose. Bad Reason #4: Only for-profits have a sustainable revenue model.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Apparel Transportation Fashion 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Don't Drink Your Own Kool-Aid A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure of the Start-Up that Was Going to Change the World Fast Company Better Place was the car-battery start-up that was going to revolutionize transportation until it didn''t. According to many, he also packed an unhealthy amount of hubris.

Hammer 8

Hammer Automotive Morale Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

It is clear to us that the failure of different parts of the system — payers, providers, patients, professionals, policy makers, politicians, the public, and the press — to pull in the same direction is a serious drag on innovation and progress. This failure to work together across a system continually exercises me.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8