The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2021

In an article published last year I highlighted how trust is crucial in our interactions with AI-based technologies in a huge range of spheres, from autonomous vehicles to healthcare. Among policymakers, there was a general agreement around the most important ethical principles for the appropriate development of AI-based applications.

Ethics 86

Ethics Consensus Constraint Report 86

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Coaching and mentoring have seldom been more popular, with a growing consensus that it can be vital to our career development. By contrast, the top-ranked agents tended to have an aversion to the technology itself, which obstructed their learning.

Bottom-up 80

Bottom-up Mentor Consensus Call Center 80

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 5, 2019

Millions are spent each year concocting the latest tastes and flavors to tantalize consumers, with companies experimenting with various AI-based technologies to help come up with interesting combinations. “Sweet was the most frequently mentioned taste quality and the reviewers definitively told us that human food is over-sweetened.”

Review 68

Review Consensus Constraint Analysis 68

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 29, 2019

With advances in digital technologies, rising global economic competition, and greater diversity and mobility, our communities are in constant flux and a corresponding pace of change can be observed in the workplace,” the authors say. Intercultural competence and citizenship. Emotional self-regulation and wellbeing. Digital literacy.

Education 52

Education Globalization Skills Consensus 52

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

In addition to the negative impact on decision-making, diminished communications from the lack of connection reduces the marketplace of ideas inside the organization, which in turn reduces innovation. Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees.

Long-term 207

Long-term Consensus Class Follow-up 207

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

Blog 412

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

The slow decline of industrial manufacturing in developed nations and recent failures of financial capitalism across the globe have sent us searching for a new model of economic growth. I see the two movements of Technology Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship beginning to converge into a promising solution.

Technology 18

Technology Entrepreneur Morale ROI 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. They keep customers happier.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Today, inner cities are "in" — innovative, hip hotbeds of convenient culture, commerce and connection. The centripetal force of today's cities is pulling the ambitious and educated back in, and increasing cities' innovative capacity, without sacrificing (at least some would argue) their inclusiveness.

Innovation 15

Innovation Real Estate Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. Your organization won't innovate productively unless some underlying factors are in good shape. A compelling case for innovation. Unless people understand why innovation is necessary, it always loses to core business or the performance engine in the battle for resources.

Critical Success Factor 15

Critical Success Factor Innovation Stage-Gate Succession 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Lack of consensus among players in a complex system is one of the biggest barriers to innovation. It's a classic change management problem.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. It is exactly this brand of thinking that is dead wrong when it comes to new product development and competitive strategy.

Disruptive Innovation 15

Disruptive Innovation Innovation Price Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

These issues grow more important as companies try to pull more and more disparate data together — to develop predictive models using machine learning, for example. Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities.

Six Sigma 9

Six Sigma Supply Chain Long-term Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While basic technologies such as Google and Pubmed exist that can help automate the search for specific information, they are not sufficient and will prove even less tenable in the future as the advancement in medical science continues to accelerate. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Peer Review Information 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

They will fail not because AI is all hype, but because companies are approaching AI-driven innovation incorrectly. Already, evidence suggests that early AI pilots are unlikely to produce the dramatic results that technology enthusiasts predict. Unfortunately, most of these efforts will fail. Most companies started online divisions.

Insurance 10

Insurance Video Long-term Project 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

There is a general consensus that U.S. 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. He set out to develop a solution.

Health Care 15

Health Care Cost Constraint Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

But collaboration is not consensus. Too often, people will try to collaborate on everything, and wind up in endless meetings, debating ideas and struggling to find consensus. To Foster Innovation, Connect Coworkers Who Share Aspirations. Collaboration is not a style. Collaboration is not “cross-selling.” Amy Jen Su.

Chief Operating Officer 11

Chief Operating Officer Consensus How To Project 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

Business leaders are not just employers: as frequent board members for regional economic development entities, they have a major influence on the civic agenda in the cities and metropolitan regions in which their firms are located. Economic inclusion must be a priority both for economic policy makers and for business.

Industry 8

Industry Policies Consensus Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

Technological innovation accounted for almost half of U.S. economic growth over the past 50 years, but the country's standing as the world's indisputable innovation leader is now at risk. At Merck, as part of our commitment to scientific innovation, we are working to foster the next generation of scientific leaders.

Education 11

Education Creativity How To Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. The course culminates in a team-based innovation project presented to hospital leadership. These challenges require extraordinary leaders.

Management 15

Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

Management 14

Management Innovation Storytelling Bottom-up 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

But here's the bottom line: there is little oversight or quality control even with webinars that count toward professional development requirements, or ones for which the participant or his organization have paid a fee. How can webinar developers engage viewers? And how can viewers learn more from webinars?

Webinar 8

Webinar Participative Content Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

The hybrid Prius was a legitimate business home run (2 million sold), and it helped both differentiate Toyota's brand as the market innovator and propel Toyota to unprecedented profits. Buried beneath the pizzaz of high-profile PR announcements, Ford has developed what appears to be a broad, well-thought-out sustainability strategy.

Strategy 15

Strategy PPM Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. These findings are especially useful for any companies facing a large portfolio of products, continuous technological change, short life cycles, and high levels of product obsolescence. Killing products isn’t easy.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Decentralization Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Even large domestic firms were far behind their global counterparts in funding, innovation, and access to markets. The rapid pace and impact of these changes did not allow the luxury of time and resources to endlessly research or build consensus around an idea or course of action. The very survival of many firms was at stake.

Globalization 14

Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

While we''re all familiar with the decline of Research in Motion, this oral history contains first-hand accounts of RIM''s glory days of innovation, followed by inglorious missteps. He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I They said, ''This kid is a fad.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

I wanted to accept the consensus as a sign that the company had rounded the corner on its 3-year slog to be more relevant in their market. And then this small voice, untraceable for a moment because it was so small, started to explain how this plan would put the company in 2nd place in almost every aspect of innovation or time to market.

CEO 16

CEO Engineering Consensus Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

It’s not uncommon to meet a lawyer who’d like to work in renewable energy, or an app developer who’d like to write a novel, or an editor who fantasizes about becoming a landscape designer. Subsidize Your Skill Development. Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets.

Career 8

Career Groupthink Banking Video 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Bossidy, former CEO at AlliedSignal, once said , “We need people who are better at persuading than at barking orders, who know how to coach and build consensus. But Darren never saw the change required as only a matter of capitalizing on new technologies and developing new products. Lawrence A.

Leadership 8

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. The BHDP system has allowed the Army to develop new ways of examining patients and improving the quality of care for key diseases such as PTSD and major depressive disorder. Data on outcomes can be used to develop a comprehensive picture of a health system’s performance. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In retrospect, not very much.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Usually when people talk of DNA they're raising questions of corporate culture: Does the company rely on consensus among managers or are strategies and tactics directed from the top? With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system. How does the company deal with dramatic change?

Software 13

Software Intellectual Capital Maturity Customer Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

never ratified but the rest of world committed to; and (b) the much more specific 2009 Copenhagen consensus , where (nearly) everyone agreed that it would be wise to stop the warming at 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F). Many CEOs are going to Paris to speak at business-focused conferences running in parallel to the negotiations to show their support.

Conference 8

Conference Supply Chain Commitment Energy 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Innovating our response to Covid-19. In part these may be fed by the fact it is easy to find social consensus.”.

Innovation 82

Innovation Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Crisis 82

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. The code that was developed for the (confusingly named) The DAO application was called a “smart contract,” and ran as a DAO application on top of the Ethereum blockchain. As it turns out, not very. Distributed Database.

Decentralization 10

Decentralization Consensus Resistance Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

We spent time with established digital players, midsize companies (including Box and Palantir), and startups, particularly those focused on FinTech and technology services. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8