The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2022

“Failing fast” has become a popular mantra in innovation circles, but, of course, the idea isn’t to fail but rather to learn. This approach requires the team to imagine that the innovation is actually ready to ship. They produce a press release announcing the launch of the new product to its potential customers.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 7, 2022

Concern propagated , however, that the very technologies that enabled us all to work from home would mean that we could, in theory, work from anywhere , which means we wouldn’t need to be tied to cities in order to work for companies based there. A smarter normal.

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GDP Technology Policies Engineering 128

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It might seem intuitive to assume that technology is adopted based primarily on the merits of the technology and its impact on things like productivity. The MIT research examines a range of industry, demographic, and technological data from the 1990s through to the mid-2010s. Encouraging automation.

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Company Trends Technology Industry 103

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 29, 2022

While I have been notably skeptical about the various claims that robots and AI will destroy vast swathes of the jobs we know today, there is an understandable concern about the impact technology is likely to have on the labor market, and especially about how one can go about making our own job as disruption proof as possible.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Among the varied insights, there are some common elements that we can see emerge, which reflect the trends of the markets overall—increased automation and tech, AI innovation, demand for flexibility, and the need for reskilling. This applies to HR automation as well.

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Trends Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Tools 109

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 7, 2021

The managers also revealed how autonomous their decision making was in terms of new products, sales and marketing decisions, and hiring permanent employees. The data covered the period on either side of the 2008 financial crisis, so allowed comparisons to be made before and after. Buffering the impact. compared to 11.8%

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Decentralization Crisis Crisis Management Comparison 80

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

In fact your talk matters little, in comparison to your walk. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? It is your walk that matters. I Think Not.

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Leadership Blog Brand Consultative 353

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 12, 2019

The team attempted to mitigate external factors that could have influenced the amount of global trade conducted by focusing on the length of the product title. These comparisons suggest that the trade-hindering effect of language barriers is of first-order importance,” the authors say.

Globalization 55

Globalization Comparison Budgeting Tools 55

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 15, 2019

There is seldom a sector or field that is not undergoing some form of transformation at the moment, many at the behest of a tidal wave of digital technologies that are upending the traditional way of doing things. These comparisons suggest that the trade-hindering effect of language barriers is of first-order importance,” the authors say.

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Technology Cost Center Comparison Discount 42

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

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Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 14

Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Tanveer Naseer helps leaders’ to protect their blind side with tips on how to ease someone back into the team after an absence in Helping Employees Regain Their Productivity After A Prolonged Absence. Laura Schroeder at Working Girl clears the ground for a comparison between our workplaces and a popular TV show in The Gleeful Workplace.

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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 10

Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

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. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Over the last two years, much has been written about patent trolls, firms that make their money asserting patents against other companies, but do not make a useful product of their own. The White House and the Congressional Research Service both cited many research studies suggesting that patent litigation harms innovation.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Comparison Sample 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Sure, people print nostalgic books and holiday cards, but that volume pales in comparison to Kodak’s heyday. Kodak was so blinded by its success that it completely missed the rise of digital technologies. So, another explanation is that Kodak invented the technology but didn’t invest in it. Why did this happen?

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Technology Film Gilbert Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

Technology 9

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

"Asia Fueling Global Innovation." That was the theme of the 2-hour panel discussion I moderated as part of a full-day ceremony celebrating the groundbreaking of Procter & Gamble's SGD 250m Innovation Centre in Singapore. Historically, 80 percent of its growth comes from innovation. Simplifying technology and new business models."

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Innovation CTO Senge Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Even when I recognize the need for a product — I've been looking for a good pair of lace-up black shoes for three months — I often put it off, afraid of making a decision I'll regret. In the last year, however, I've noticed these problems are ebbing. That's true for me, too.

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Technology Retail Price Comparison 14

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. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com. To learn more about SAS, its products and services, visit www.sas.com.

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

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.

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Innovation Forrester Business Model Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Essentially, these statistics tell us that companies need to embrace and capture the voices of their employees and customers if they want to innovate and thrive.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

Insurance 15

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

The relationship between technology and jobs is center stage in the policy and academic debate. On the one hand, there is widespread fear that innovation will lead to a loss of jobs and rising income inequality — the “race against the machines” narrative. In the United States productivity growth averaged just 0.5%

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Video Technology Education Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But these supposedly boring cogs of the corporation, these objects of derision in Dilbertland, can have a profound impact on innovation and performance. If the organization isn''t being innovative, the solution must be structural. Executing on Innovation An HBR Insight Center. Innovation Isn''t an Idea Problem.

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Middle Management Innovation Management Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

But these supposedly boring cogs of the corporation, these objects of derision in Dilbertland, can have a profound impact on innovation and performance. If the organization isn’t being innovative, the solution must be structural. Executing on Innovation. Why Is Innovation So Often Synonymous With Disappointment?

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Middle Management Innovation Management Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

Cisco followed this pattern: In 2001, its patent activity narrowed dramatically from a broad array of technological areas to relatively few. Over time, many of the best tech companies cycle between exploration and exploitation. Sometimes exploration means creating inventions; sometimes it means acquiring small, inventive companies.

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2017

All economies, from Brazil and Germany to India and Saudi Arabia, stand to gain from the hefty productivity boosts that robotics and artificial intelligence will bring. Today, about half the activities that people are paid to do in the global economy have the potential to be automated by adapting demonstrated technology. The Age of AI.

GDP 14

GDP Globalization Policies Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

New research from the McKinsey Global Institute simulates the potential global macroeconomic impact of five powerful technologies (computer vision, natural language, virtual assistants, robotic process automation, and advanced machine learning). We know that technologies often take a long time to diffuse and to deliver benefits.

GDP 10

GDP McKinsey Long-term Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

The digital sector is one of the most dynamic and innovative elements of the economies of the UK and the EU – and of countries anywhere; in the UK alone it accounts for 16% of domestic output, 10% of employment, and 24% of exports. Is there access to Information and Communications Technology infrastructure? Innovation.

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Bureaucracy Comparison Innovation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy. Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development.

Strategy 10

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

We often look at innovation in terms of the new products and technologies that come to market. Later, if you had complaints or suggestions about your the product, you were shunted off to a customer support line that was often busy, or staffed by someone with little or no authority to act on your request.

Retail 15

Retail Open-book Comparison Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The United States, which needed allies against the Soviet Union, not only tolerated Japanese protectionism but also transferred advanced technology to Japan and subsidized Japanese firms. China, by comparison, is rising in the WTO era. Today, by comparison, U.S.-China China, by contrast, is simply open.

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Comparison GDP Technology Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. How the best companies get up to speed.

Strategy 8

Strategy ROI Technology Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

In Big Bang disruption, rule-changing innovation leads to the creation of entire product lines (or the destruction of whole markets) essentially overnight, with disrupters coming from outside the industry that they are disrupting. insurance aggregator beatthatquote.com in 2011 and has since launched price comparison sites in the U.K.,

Insurance 8

Insurance Disruptive Innovation Industry Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Can reverse innovation — innovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. For the poor making $2 a day, a $10,000 product would require 5,000 days of income.

Health Care 16

Health Care Cost Constraint Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The network effect, which describes how services and technologies become more valuable as more people use them, has driven the success of many internet companies. The advertising guru David Jones dubbed this mixing of branding and technology as “brandtech.” They leverage technology in innovative ways.

Brand 8

Brand Apparel Software Content 8