The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2019

Innovation has scarcely been as popular and trendy as it is today, but as Wired’s David Rowan pithily points out in his latest book, a lot of what passes for innovation is b t smothered in multiple layers of jargon and obfuscation that creates the impression that much is being done, but it’s largely a superficial veneer.

Company 67

Company Incubator Conflict of Interest Metrics 67

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Working with startups is something many organizations strive to do in order to tap into the innovation and ingenuity such partnerships can bring. Not only do sponsors often regard the incubator as proof of their innovation prowess, but startups often regard acceptance into the incubator as job done. Successful partnerships.

Incubator 80

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Incentives 80

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ Our values informed our guiding principles, developed by our CEO and implemented by our Executive Committee, for operating through COVID-19.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. 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. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member). The pandemic has boosted the application of technologies across both public and private sectors.

Webinar 98

Webinar Education Conference Industry 98

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. As the head of the U.S.

Process 13

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 13

Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Let me explain.

Supply Chain 52

Supply Chain Real Estate Resistance Competitive Advantage 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

Innovation 8

Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Implementing a strategic technology plan. Michael Tardif has over twenty years of experience applying information technologies to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings.

Creativity 58

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

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

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

Innovation 96

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 96

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Firms who buy up vast swaths of dubious patents and then use them to squeeze settlements out of deep-pocketed (or not) technology companies and their customers troll the federal courtrooms of the Eastern District of Texas, notorious for its excessive jury awards to plaintiffs. Most of the provisions range from common sense to obvious.

Innovation 8

Innovation Technology System Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 Not so fast.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

Only six percent of the directors overseeing the world’s biggest banks have any technology experience. Technology is transforming the rules of businesses and reshaping industries in just about every sector. So, what role should a board play in deciding on technology investments and shaping businesses in the digital age?

Delegation 8

Delegation Technology Committee Banking 8

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

A conversation with Peter Fasolo about the value of transformational growth and innovation – and how to help it unfold. Such a degree of corporate socialization can also stifle innovation and overall cognitive diversity. How do you keep your people open to transformational growth and innovation?

Innovation 40

Innovation Diversity Human Resources Committee 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. But only the human oversight committee approves what gets “autonomized” and how it is implemented. These distinct approaches enjoy demonstrable real-world success.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

A whopping 70% had jobs that are best described as self-employed; ranging from owner/operator of Diva Day Care to selling on eBay to teaching piano lessons. Today’s teens are getting a completely different work experience than I did – and it’s better preparing them to be innovators.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Rogers Committee Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Balanced Scorecard Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

So the chiefs of strategy and technology formed a unique circle of peers — 18 diverse members from across the organization whose task over the next six months was to ask and answer what they felt were the most pressing strategic questions facing the company. That, in brief, is the concept of a leadership circle.

Leadership 10

Leadership Diversity Committee Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Corporate culture.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Start with a survey.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more."

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

asks writer Sam Grobart of Apple, who interviews CEO Tim Cook, chief designer Jonathan Ive, and head of software Craig Federighi to gauge how the trio is thinking about innovation in a market that has Android licking its lips. And while there''s ample competition from Android – the top operating system in the U.S.

Cooper 8

Cooper Committee Bottom-up Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business. Day says, "we have been able to use the best of our Nike DNA, but have the freedom to operate as an independent force for change in the development sector.

Core Competence 15

Core Competence Market Segmentation Globalization Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Right now, the FCC is working on the biggest transformation in over a century of profound technological progress in communications: shutting down the analog telephone network. Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. It’s an end-game everyone needs to keep a close eye on.

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I’d like to share the features of our innovative planning process, with an eye toward helping other institutions adopt the elements that will work for them. Because the technology specs and operational logistics were finalized collaboratively early on, change orders were about half the typical number for a project of this size.

Health Care 8

Health Care Construction Planning Restructuring 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. The leading companies are getting out in front of this trend.

Resources 52

Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

The “conventional” workspace (drop ceilings, monochromatic cubicles and all) is being phased out in favor of connected spaces that encourage innovation and demand collaboration while still prizing individuality. Apply your company’s CRM or business intelligence systems to internal operations.

Conference 8

Conference CRM Creativity Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

In new or young high-growth industries where barriers to entry are low, innovation rates are high, demand is very hard to predict, and the relative positions of competitors are in flux, a company can often radically shift the course of industry development through some innovative move.

Strategy 8

Strategy Organization Committee Environment 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Bank of America convenes a local committee of bank leaders in each of its 45 Neighborhood Builders markets then uses a short application and lots of on-the-ground research to select two awardees per community per year. And, as a result, we are now able to identify three key reasons why it has been so effective. It is both local and national.

Case Study 14

Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Among the approved recommendations were opportunities to save nearly $4 million in HR administrative cost by deploying more self-service technology supported by a shared services organization, nearly $8 million from insourcing second physician reviews of inpatient charts, and up to $3.5 Leading Health Care Innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Europe''s $100 billion carbon market, an innovative force in the powerful carbon-reduction approach known as cap and trade, has ceased to function the way it''s supposed to. This has drastically reduced the incentives for them to invest in or deploy clean-energy technologies or to modernize their energy-infrastructure assets.

Price 8

Price Energy Politics Marketing 8