The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 7, 2021

Now, more than ever, the volatility captured by the somewhat over-used VUCA acronym is perhaps becoming reality, and with it significant changes in the approach of organizations to this volatility. The data covered the period on either side of the 2008 financial crisis, so allowed comparisons to be made before and after.

Decentralization 100

Decentralization Crisis Crisis Management Comparison 100

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

For those of you not familiar with Kevin, he is a two-time best selling author and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group , a learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential since 1993. In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk.

Leadership 353

Leadership Blog Brand Consultative 353

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

They settled on 11 (and for each one they carefully selected a slightly less impressive “comparison company”). Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. The book is about those special traits that marked the difference between being average and exceptional. By Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

Health Care 9

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

’ Metrics seem to emphasize what organizations find immediately measurable — even if those are low value — and tend to ignore high value measurements simply because they seem harder to measure (whether they are or not). It is a mindset that permeates organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up.

Quality 50

Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2016

It’s even become a noun of sorts — uberization — which people use to describe a disruptive change to a staid industry ripe for innovation (though, to be sure, the popularization of the word “disruptive” means that it is often used in ways that the concept’s author , Clay Christensen, didn’t intend).

Organization 8

Organization Airlines Constraint Power 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

For a long time, I have been troubled to see how often organizations fail to invest wisely in their futures while instead placing dominant emphasis on the present. It both funds day-to-day operations and generates profits for the future. By comparison, the Box 2 work of avoiding the traps of the past is difficult and painful.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Engineering Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. They also believe that innovation will help them achieve these lofty goals — and they''re investing accordingly. Sixty-nine percent of these respondents report that their companies have dedicated personnel for customer experience innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. Juliano Howard T.

Magazine 51

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Overview: An agile environment organizes the resources of an organization in a more adaptive and disciplined way. Using the concept of controlled chaos it is possible to increase efficiency and innovation. Through new roles and a few rules any organization or group can become more agile. Iterative Pivots and Releases.

Agility 71

Agility Project Software Short-term 71

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. If an organization can’t get things done, nothing else matters – not the smartest strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even game-changing technology. Juliano Howard T.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. “Numbers that numb” has become an all-too-common description for performance reports in many organizations.

Health Care 11

Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 11

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Operational Statistics. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

As Quartz reported last year: Members of the Glass operations team have been on the road showing it off to companies and organizations, and they told Quartz that some of the most enthusiastic responses have come from manufacturers, teachers, medical companies, and hospitals. The comparison to the PC is telling.

Strategy 9

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In a 100-page strategy document you can state everything you want, which makes everyone in the organization feel comfortable. We understand something better when we see it in comparison with something else than in isolation. To understand the power of comparison, let me retell this famous old advertising story.

Strategy 12

Strategy Document Comparison Retail 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Most of us grew up in and around organizations that fit a common template. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Most of us grew up in and around organizations that fit a common template. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

These differences go to the foundation of the modern corporate IT department — the infrastructure — which includes the software, hardware, communications, facilities, data centers, operations, and other technical resources a corporation operates. Today''s CIO Needs to Be the Chief Innovation Officer.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now. First, I take the 30-minute ride to organize my day and think through the day before I even do anything. What is that!?” As a man thinketh, right? I could breathe.

Succession 316

Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Business organizations are like trees. They are also valued according to the reputation of their companies, directly commensurate to how much money they give to charities and business organizations.

Committee 52

Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 52

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

He had no formal authority as a leader, operating without any title or mandate. Also, all of his work was done outside the boundaries of strategic management practices within the organization. Companies like Google and 3M have benefited from embracing innovation that comes from all parts of the organization.

Strategy 8

Strategy Power Idea Generation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2014

When I argue that e-commerce isn’t likely to destroy innovative omnichannel retailers , I typically receive passionate responses. Several organizations track e-commerce sales, including the U.S. In general, however, e-commerce operations aren’t as cheap to run as most people think. Growth rates first. All show similar trends.

Retail 8

Retail Price Forrester Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

The Android operating system has been outselling Apple's iOS by nearly a 5:1 ratio. To make a vulgar comparison, just because someone buys a lot of books doesn't mean those books are read. No one would disagree that Apple has made great user experience an organizing principle for its design culture. The numbers don't lie.

ROE 9

ROE Metrics Download Comparison 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Do you sometimes feel like your organization is flailing, barely able to keep up with the pace of change? And organizations need more individual leaders who can help everyone navigate through the new, speeded-up and volatile world. The Innovation Instigator. Have you been disrupted recently? You are not alone.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Implementing a value-based strategy is on the mind of nearly every health care organization in the U.S. It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” Here are five reasons why: 1. The final result? For more, see this HBS case.).

Health Care 8

Health Care Fraser Price Compliance 8

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. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We surveyed more than 2,500 managers, from 1,000 companies, including over 100 Fortune 500 companies and 70 organizations ranked at the top of Universum’s “World’s Most Attractive Employers” list (a ranking of company preferences among university students in the top 12 economies). Confronting the facts.

Globalization 8

Globalization Brand Survey Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. In effect, budget growth will have to be supported by premium growth, which means enrolling more Rhode Islanders to sustain the organization. Fostering innovation. A new consumer mindset.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If you have assessed the risk of your strategic options in terms of brand risk, operational risk, market risk, and so on, do the same for the current strategy. An apples-to-apples comparison will allow the team to make a more balanced assessment of the best course of action.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. Unfortunately, fewer than 20% of patients had completed both pre- and post-operative surveys. Record and share learnings.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

” The numbers bear this out: Within Target’s “naturals and organics” category, sales grew 17% last year, four times faster than its total grocery sales. I’ve been in contact with Heiny and her team at Target over the last year about the program she helped build to drive product innovation and more sales.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Why do organizations so often introduce such new initiatives without thinking about this step? Together, confirmation bias and the escalation of commitment lead organizations to refrain from evaluating changes because the key decision makers feel (erroneously) that they already know that the changes are good ones. Maybe or maybe not.

Flextime 10

Flextime Call Center Human Resources CRM 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

As incumbents fight back with their own digital strategies, our research shows that they often trigger a second wave of competition, closer to the notion of Schumpeterian imitation where incumbents start themselves to innovate, sometimes aggressively, against the threat of entrants slashing yet more revenue and profit growth.

Strategy 8

Strategy ROI Technology Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2015

” It’s not that we haven’t made significant strides in aggregating and organizing data, but the big data pipedream isn’t quite delivering on its promise. Any organization where employees are spending valuable time on manual, repetitive tasks is a prime case for intelligent automated solutions.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Analysis Report CRM 8