The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As with so many new technologies, the metaverse is as much hype as it is reality at the moment, with vendors striving to outdo themselves with claims about the transformational nature of the technology. A recent paper from consultancy firm Arthur D. The question is, how to grasp them?

Maturity 85

Maturity Trends Technology Uncertainty 85

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Rapid changes in technology, shifting customer expectations, disruptive business models, and quickly evolving regulations force organizations to innovate quickly and invest in new lines of business that will fuel future growth. Leaders can't afford to let fear, uncertainty and doubt paralyze them. Related articles. Employee Engagement.

Uncertainty 93

Uncertainty Business Model Globalization Innovation 93

CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It’s not just mentoring or consulting; it’s a collaborative effort that involves both guidance and challenge from an experienced coach. Coaches help you develop these qualities, ensuring you can navigate and thrive in the face of change and uncertainty. What is Business Coaching?

Leadership Development 78

Leadership Development Development Succession Execution 78

HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

Shanelle Reese, Chief People Officer, Wonderschool The Talent Turnaround 2023 witnessed a seismic shift in the tech landscape, with unprecedented levels of turnover fueled by layoffs, career changes, and a resurgent job market. Many tech companies can hire en masse, but the focus now needs to be on what will make them stay.

Leadership 109

Leadership Diversity CPO Career 109

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 25, 2019

So much is unknown, and the new is everywhere--new technology, new economic models, new politics, new cultural norms, and new products and services. To succeed, leaders must find new ways for their organizations to satisfy rapidly evolving market and organizational demands. It is lined with uncertainty and reasons for turning back.

Real Estate 180

Real Estate Travel Short-term Resistance 180

Nathan Magnuson

JULY 7, 2014

The market changes, a new technology comes along, the weather fails to cooperate. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Courage Influence Leadership Personal Effectiveness blame courage fear finger finger pointing risk uncertainty' But there’s no other way to lead than by example.

Contingency Plans 186

Contingency Plans Uncertainty Cooper Proposal 186

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

Thirty-five years ago at a ceremony in Vancouver, BC, I accepted AMA’s Marketer-of-the-Year Award on behalf of Nabob Foods. This company earned that honor by re-staging a tired coffee brand with innovative packing technology and breakthrough advertising. As marketers well know, unfilled needs create opportunities to meet the need.

Brand 100

Brand Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy CEO 100

Women on Business

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s clear that in many cases, women are not just influencing the market; they are the market. In other words, women have been the market for some time now yet many executives have not taken action on this huge opportunity. Hewlett-Packard, another technology company, named Meg Whitman as their CEO in September 2011.

Power 248

Power Cooper Diversity CEO 248

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The discussions explored various issues, challenges and opportunities facing managers and leaders across a diverse set of areas – technology and digital, travel, business and the regional economy.

Mentor 52

Mentor Newsletter Energy Webinar 52

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 20, 2012

Uncertainty often results in fear. Opportunities are plenty and both an individual’s and an organization’s growth will be highly rewarded by the market. We have just seen the start of how mobile technologies are changing “work” and the broader societies and riding this wave will make or break organizations.

Maturity 233

Maturity Learning-by-Doing Agility Globalization 233

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Once upon a time, before the era of big data analytics, corporations had similarly routine business growth issues and threats: i.e.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. Technology + Methodology.

Stage-Gate 128

Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Glean These 19 Ideas & Tips to Skyrocket Your Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Victoria Greene , an ecommerce brand marketing consultant, freelance writer, and small business owner with a pulse on the future of online selling. Starting Your Own Business? If you have, you're not alone; 99.7%

Tips 95

Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

It is useful to distinction between three motivations for creating partnerships: Optimization and economy of scale, Reduction of risk and uncertainty, Acquisition of particular resources and activities) Cost Structure – The business model elements result in the cost structure. (It Technology and its role in travel 2.0

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

In a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business environment where technology is constantly changing how people collaborate and work, the paradigms of leadership are changing. In this edition of Carnival, we have a solid collection of posts that explores the changing face of leadership in the new world. Alan Robinson, PH.D

Leadership Development 185

Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 185

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

However, some of the most common beliefs about how this will happen, repeated by conference speakers, self-proclaimed gurus, and consultants, have been oversimplified, misunderstood, or misapplied. Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties. Complements are not substitutes.

McCallum 11

McCallum Competitive Advantage Business Model Consultative 11

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. Ironically, or providentially, I had just graduated from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and was preparing to go into the intel field to catch these kinds of "bad guys." It was a humbling time to serve in uniform.

Blog 404

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? You can, however, embrace uncertainty by adjusting your views as new information becomes available. Take, for example, Rasmus Ankersen.

Uncertainty 307

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 307

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. This kind of unfortunate decision has happened over and over again, in wave after wave of transformative business technology. It is multi-faceted and diffuse, and doesn’t just involve technology.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am just going to put an example that will immensely help you understand the significance and uncertainty of starting a new company. Isn’t the above scenario related to a businessman/businesswoman finding a stage to put their business into the market? Analyze the market demands for your product. Are you an employee?

Company 99

Company How To Banking Finance 99

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

But this leaves a lot of uncertainty in what is often a company’s most profitable department, and it makes managing a high-functioning sales force notoriously difficult. The first factor is trendy, and increasing time with customers is high on the priority list of most sales leaders and consultants. Sales Technology'

Succession 18

Succession B2B Metrics Uncertainty 18

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Over the years, the CEOs of these companies faced massive technology disruptions, deep industry recessions, sudden collapses in demand, price wars, oil shocks — you name it. When Peter Lewis of Progressive, the car insurance company, had the idea of expanding into the safe-driver market, he did not move in one big swoop.

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. They hire consultants to verify that they are making the right decisions. Product Commoditization.

Telecommunications 16

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Forward-looking companies see outsourcing and offshoring as tools to achieve strategic objectives such as scale, flexibility, and access to talent, resources and new markets — not just lower costs. Or that China surpassed the U.S.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

Given the amount of research that business schools have dedicated to understanding change management, the number of books and articles published on the subject, and the investment that companies have made in consultants and training, one would think that we would be doing better by now. The change affected hundreds of people.

Kotter 8

Kotter Decentralization Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many have to measure their success in terms of stock price and market share, and when those slip, everyone sees it happening, reads about it in the business pages, watches it on CNBC. For 10 years, I worked as a consultant to John Emery, CEO of Emery Worldwide, now part of UPS. Communication Leadership Managing uncertainty'

Abell 8

Abell Armstrong Uncertainty CEO 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

I have been speaking, teaching and consulting on marketing and branding for 30 years, and I began to notice a disturbing trend. And to be honest, it wasn’t hard to get people talking, and certain themes took shape very quickly: speed of service, restriction of access, rigidity of policies, complexity of technology, easy of process.

Competitive Advantage 83

Competitive Advantage Short-term Policies Open-book 83

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

These interviews were conducted with salespeople across a wide variety of industries including high technology, telecommunications, financial services, consulting, industrial equipment, healthcare, and electronics, to name a few. They hire consultants to verify that they are making the right decisions. Product Commoditization.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

For instance, a technology vendor in our sample wanted to create a new, lower-cost offering to target customers who couldn't afford its custom software. Employees experimented by removing pricey features and consulting services from one of its products and purchase the software off-the-shelf.

Sample 15

Sample Benchmarking Software Marketing Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

As an economist, my training in how individuals invest during times of uncertainty leads me to a much different prediction: America’s coastal cities are going to adapt, get ahead of climate change, and be just fine. Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

An alternative perspective on strategy and execution — one that we argue is more in tune with the nature of value creation in a world marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) — conceives of strategy as a hypothesis rather than a plan. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day.

Strategy 8

Strategy Agility Execution Core Competence 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

The scalping market exists for three primary reasons. Given this uncertainty, it's best to be conservative and set low prices. Trying to keep prices below market value is akin to hoping an inflated balloon will remain submerged in a pool of water — it's hard to do. If fans are willing to pay more, there will be a market.

Price 11

Price Sports PR Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., For the past 10 years, my research, writing, and consulting have focused on the question of how to build robust ecosystem strategies. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Consulting conducted a study of decision makers in 10 U.S. particularly in emerging markets, for many of the same reasons. In fact, American companies often have a competitive advantage when it comes to producing technologically advanced, differentiated goods that require precision manufacturing and a high level of quality control.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Talk to people in such professional service industries as private banking, auditing, consulting, even engineering, and you begin to hear concerns about the commoditization of professional knowledge. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.

Drucker 8

Drucker Core Competence Engineering Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Sales managers are under a lot of pressure to get their reps to exploit interactive online technologies to the max, but that's a lot easier said than done. So it's no wonder that there's a lot of uncertainty about, and even fear of, social media in B2B sales departments.

Media 8

Media B2B Seminar Metrics 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve. If one believes vendors and niche consultants, the Big Picture is what their specialty is.

Strategic Planning 92

Strategic Planning Advertising Consultative Planning 92