The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 17, 2019

New research from Exeter Business School suggests that a matching platform similar in style to Tinder could help remove that fear and ensure innovation occurs more frequently. If people are afraid to put themselves forward for fear of seeming needy or being rejected, then many great projects, partnerships, and endeavours will never occur.

Project 60

Project Game Theory Proposal Participative 60

N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

Dr. Evil, err Ron, promised the Board that he would save, “One Trillion Dollars”. Scott continued by saying that Susan’s function was a big component of spend and the projected savings in her space was not only critical to ACME’s assessment, it was critical to the growth and success of NIH. He would see her at kickoff later that day.

Resistance 248

Resistance Consultative P&L Cooper 248

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 14, 2013

As a new project manager at Hewlett Packard I found that I interacted with a lot of brilliant people, many of who had been conditioned by higher learning institutions to compete rather than collaborate. Team members started cooperating and collaborating at a level that got them, and me, noticed. And it was contagious.

Contract Manufacturing 279

Contract Manufacturing Leadership Cooper Covey 279

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

.” The trend towards a more portfolio-based career is something the researchers believe has been exacerbated during the pandemic as people strive to protect themselves from the fragility of the labor market. Banding together. It provides loans of up to €100 billion to member states.

Career 108

Career Diversity Trends Long-term 108

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Great leaders have to ask: Where does your innovation come from? Recruit all the same people to the project? For Sir Richard, seeing his dream turn to ashes was a teachable moment of epic proportions—an unexpected provocation to rethink innovation in a world full of surprises. Not likely. Restock it with all the same things?

Competitive Advantage 70

Competitive Advantage Banking Diversity IPO 70

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 23, 2020

The study, which explored the Swiss labor market, found that refugees were more likely to find work in their first five years if they lived in an area where a large community existed of people who shared their nationality, language or ethnicity. Germany’s Kiron University is one project that’s attempting to overcome that.

Project 91

Project Policies Skills Transportation 91

Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He takes five key roles of leaders and explores them in a chapter: Improve vision Ensure accountability Build unity and cooperation Create better decisions Motivate to action Then he opens each section with a list of great questions, and the chapter follows with comments, stories and ideas related to each question.

Books 185

Books Open-book Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

I often hear this question when I visit companies and speak about how to make an innovative idea less terrifying to high level executives. There are plenty of pundits arguing that big companies need to innovate, and pointing out that it is difficult to do so. But that would require an ambitious new project.

Innovation 11

Innovation P&L Short-term Company 11

Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Leadership is shifting as we grapple with technology changes, shifting market realities, new business models, and unpredictable outside forces. The definition that I operate from is that leadership is any means by which two or more people develop the ability to cooperate and take collective action. Thrive in a Hyper-Connected World.

Self-aware 134

Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 134

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

Engineering 8

Engineering Innovation Content Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

How do Google, Facebook and IDEO jumpstart the process that leads to innovation? It's not complicated: The "how might we" approach to innovation ensures that would-be innovators are asking the right questions and using the best wording. Often by using the same three words: How Might We. or completely re-imagine Y.

Innovation 18

Innovation Creativity Cooper Idea Generation 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. The result will be innovation. A roundtable conversation with our advisers.

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation.

Consensus 333

Consensus Team Building Blog Team 333

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In most companies, marketers are in charge of assessing the competition. Because of this, close to 60 percent of all competitive intelligence professionals report to marketing. Yet the majority of marketers fail to use their competition analysts strategically, instead using them to gather more “recon” data.

Marketing 8

Marketing Competitive Intelligence Porter How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. Speaking out primes the market, builds anticipation, helps a radical idea sound familiar, and for those whose name becomes associated with the idea, thought leadership offers entree to circles of potential future backers and supporters.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

.” Consider what’s happened in just the past 10 years: The first major blockchain innovation was bitcoin, a digital currency experiment. The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market.

Disaggregation 8

Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

More companies and nonprofits are turning to external experts, on a project or temporary basis, to tap into unique skill sets and experience that they otherwise might not be able to access, afford, or locate in their market. At the same time, more individuals are turning to freelancing as an alternative to full-time company employment.

Cooper 9

Cooper Attrition Project Organization 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Rather than cooperating, too many functions end up competing for power, influence, and limited resources. For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. Adam Pretty /Getty Images.

How To 8

How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

When you work for a corporation, you often find yourself collaborating with others as part of your job — when you’re assigned to a new project team, for instance. A while back, a friend was consulting for a prominent Silicon Valley startup, and he realized my marketing strategy skills would be a good fit. Collaboration.

How To 9

How To Reputation Workshop Proposal 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In 2016, former American Express CEO Ken Chenault tasked chief human resource officer Kevin Cox with finding new opportunities that would drive innovation and revenue growth. Their reasoning: Five years from now, successful companies will increasingly employ innovative business models that no one currently thinks are feasible.

Development 12

Development Participative Conference Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Dominant providers leverage their market position to raise prices independently of cost or quality.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

At Cabot Creamery Cooperative, we’ve seen firsthand that combining corporate self-interest with support for social and environmental issues is not a costly distraction. Yet, when the marketing team suggested that Cabot become a certified B Corporation, I was skeptical. Why did we need an outside certification?

Cooper 8

Cooper Benchmarking Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Finding that first market — a few customers willing to pay for your early product — is hard enough. And that's finding the second market. You've built up the equivalent of a hand callus in response to the friction and pressure of what it has taken to get to that first-market success. And he was right.

Learning-by-Doing 15

Learning-by-Doing Rogers Marketing Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. So, within our new talent management project, we instituted an internship program and developed a new program dubbed "Talent Camp" to communicate and promote Garanti's reputation as a premier employer.

Banking 11

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. billion people has always called out to me as a problem needing new and innovative solutions. We also believe cooperation is necessary. Think Global: This isn't just an India project. dollars).

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Transportation Cooper Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

Technology innovation is not slowing down or leveling off, but ramping up — and businesses will soon face a barrage of new digital possibilities. IT is already being asked both to industrialize traditional infrastructures and systems fast to save costs, and to innovate customer experiences and operations with new digital technologies.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

I spend most of my time at Babson launching projects in other countries to foster entrepreneurship , but I was in the U.S. Opportunities and markets are global. Entrepreneurs don't need to help America beat China or Brazil in addressing the needs of customers and markets. Encourage financial entrepreneurship and innovation.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Microfinance Finance 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism. These include access to digital goods and services, being part of global supply chains, accelerating and partaking in the fruits of innovation, and helping citizens access information, entertainment, and connectivity on a worldwide basis.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Risk Officers (CROs) may seem to have little in common. But the advent of Big Data, sophisticated modeling techniques, and robust algorithms are opening a door to cooperation and opportunities that have never been possible before. Use risk data as an avenue for innovation.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and] Yet new breeds of solutions are emerging, with private and public players joining hands to find innovative answers.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Globalization Microfinance Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Data-driven selvesware could help the global project manager hoping to foster greater cooperation and camaraderie within their team. Their selvesware could perform social-network analytics, prioritize project milestones, and draft post-meeting communiqués designed to get their team interacting more with each other.

KPI 8

KPI Directory Human Capital Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Instead, it should try to persuade them that competition in the mobile space is radically different from that in traditional markets and consequently, the European Union — and the United States, for that matter — should revamp their antitrust laws. Instead, it has just focused on the mobile-operating-system market.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Incentives Operations Engineering 8