The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 27, 2019

Read through the tech and business press on any given day and you’re likely bombarded with news about the latest technologies. It’s a mindset that underpins a constant assessment of the technology landscape to see what’s around the corner. In all of this, the customer gets a bit of a cold shoulder.

Innovation 69

Innovation Succession Incubator Business Model 69

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation strives to develop innovative solutions, both for the unique challenges faced by the nation, but also those of the wider world. Curating inspiration. So what lessons can be learned from both countries?

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I’m just not a believer in attempting to label someone as a leader, and develop them as such when they are clearly not.

Leadership 419

Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 27, 2021

“Our results highlight the critical role of intrinsic motives to the performance of social entrepreneurial start-ups and provide evidence that typically-used extrinsic incentives to promote the development of successful social enterprises may in fact be counterproductive,” the researchers conclude. Female entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Motivation Incentives Proposal 92

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

Venture Capitalist 52

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 52

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. A recent Brookings analysis found that of the 30 U.S. This needs to change.

Real Estate 13

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By Dave Aron, Global Research Director, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. This is especially important and challenging in the IT and digital domains, because the “artist formerly known as the IT organization” is evolving rapidly as new technologies take hold. To win the talent war, companies need to change.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

There is no burden on those who proposed a new idea or technology to talk to customers, build minimal viable products, test hypotheses or understand the barriers to deployment. Most importantly, minimal viable products and working prototypes will have been tested. As the head of the U.S.

Process 14

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Most industry observers take the position that companies get distracted if they try to bootstrap a product with a service. But from where I sit, bootstrapping products with services is a tried and true method. Today, AgilOne’s product is a software-as-a-service platform. This remains a controversial point of view.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

Incubator 10

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In the technology world, we’ve seen the tremendous impact that eBay has made in helping small e-commerce businesses get off the ground. Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. Most stagnate.

Business Incubator 9

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Our job is to deliver the cutting-edge technologies they require. And, especially in recent years, as prolonged global economic challenges have rippled through the aerospace industry, we also need to make those technologies more affordable. That requires constant innovation, in both our products and our own operations.

Operations 8

Operations Incubator Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

. “Now, access to tools, capital, and other supports [make] manufacturable products like the [ Oru ] collapsible kayak possible.” For his part, Mims imagines an age in which “new products — actual, physical products — will go from idea to store shelves in a matter of months.”

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

Each year, twenty million babies worldwide are born prematurely or with a low birth weight, and four million of them die, most in developing nations. Unfortunately, current options for warming babies in developing nations are either expensive or unsafe. That insight led them to fundamentally rethink who their users really were.

Incubator 11

Incubator Business Model Entrepreneur Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In the tech startup world, technology is important for success, but it does not disproportionately determine winners and losers. Two companies can invent similar technologies; one will win and the other will lose. Focusing on technology supremacy alone is a model for failure. For centuries, the Gross World Product was flat.

Licensing 16

Licensing Software Automotive Incubator 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I call this the Six+Six Model for entrepreneurship ecosystem development. All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. In fact, in developing countries no tech and low tech startups actually usually create more jobs than high tech startups (think Starbucks or IKEA vs Google or Apple). While the U.S.

Incubator 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Now, well over a decade later, as developing-economy competitors take the lead, U.S. The company appeared at this year's International Auto Show in Detroit with a mid-sized hybrid car that, at under $30,000, has better fuel efficiency than any other such product in the world. companies still don't get it. BYD of China can.

Incubator 13

Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

India has numerous small retailers and service providers who are shining examples of scrappy entrepreneurship at its best, but the information technology startups that are my primary interest typically require outside funding. India has done well in the last twenty odd years to build its technology industry through services.

Incubator 8

Incubator Stage-Gate Venture Capitalist How To 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. Now, after more than a decade of experimentation, I can share the formula we’ve developed. Incubate new businesses and models. Invite others in.

Innovation 16

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. They listen to their best customers — something we did religiously at Medtronic — making increasingly complex products to meet those customers' most sophisticated needs.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. Here are three things that Western investors should want from African entrepreneurs: a focus on the top of the pyramid, control over factors of production, and innovation in distribution rather than in products. Factors of Production.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lines of business are now getting their own official technology budgets for non-standard software products. Departments can automate a business process in the time it would take to enter IT's development pipeline. Shadow IT has been freshly-labeled "departmental IT.". It's not as if IT departments aren't busy.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

It invests heavily into research and allows promising projects to incubate at its Google X division. It invites academics to spend sabbaticals at the company, giving them access to Google’s unparalleled data sets, while they add to the firm’s knowledge and understanding of cutting edge technologies.

Company 8

Company Levitt Succession Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Today when we talk about business “ clusters ,” we’re usually talking about the technology industry in Silicon Valley, the financial sector in London or New York, or automakers in southern Germany. Matteo Fagiolino/Getty Images. But clusters go back much further than these examples.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

American efforts to jumpstart the development of a cleantech economy have not been wildly successful to date. It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon).

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel design to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives. Just look at the. $1

Strategy 10

Strategy Six Sigma Engineering Bottom-up 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of clients who hire PhD data scientists from our fellowship program or enroll their employees in our big data corporate training.

Training 8

Training Learning Curve Incubator Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.”

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8