The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2020

“Most companies are risking significant future revenue growth because of the gap between the potential and realized value of their technology investments, ” said Paul Daugherty, Accenture’s chief technology and innovation officer. Timing : Creating an appropriate sequence and roadmaps for deploying new technology.

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How To Technology Maturity Agility 98

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. EY is known for its focus on innovation.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

HR Digest

AUGUST 18, 2023

It has evolved through different waves, showcasing the maturation of HR work and its impact on organizational success. Initially, HR practices focused on efficiency, ensuring that HR processes were streamlined and cost-effective. Rather, HR must focus on building the right organization capabilities that drive success.

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Organization Power Span of Control SWOT 96

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Leaders in companies prioritizing interaction skills are more effective at coaching and developing others; communicating and interacting; developing strong networks and partnerships; fostering employee creativity and innovation; and identifying and developing future talent. The Mobile Era Matures. Ask the Coach . Related articles.

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Human Capital Conference Metrics Talent Management 103

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Big companies are really bad at innovation because they're designed to be bad at innovation. In order to grow profitability and fight margin pressure, Gerber executives turned towards a market they hadn't successfully penetrated for decades: adult food. In it's infancy, it's designed to bring innovation to the market.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. Yet, time and again, they have struggled to innovate with new and disruptive technologies. Investors affect innovation investments. Simon McGill/Getty Images. In practice, we find important differences. for BMW versus -2.7B

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Innovation Company Marketing Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

For example, despite all the froth about how companies need to accelerate growth in emerging markets, three-quarters of the U.S. executives surveyed said they will continue to invest heavily in their home market, which is a largely mature and slow-growing economy. That leads to two interesting questions. Indeed, U.S.

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Efficiency Maturity Strategic Planning Business Model 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Here is my own business success checklist that will help you optimize your activities for a more efficient and purpose oriented endeavor. Marketing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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Education Innovation Entrepreneur Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

No company ever dazzled the world by lackadaisically going after a market. So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly?

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Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams. Everything I know of Dan indicates he is a mature, supportive leader with his ego in check. That's consensus."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Most innovation teams inside large companies are set up to operate like well-oiled machines. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation. The problem is that while this approach enables large-scale production, it doesn’t seem to work for innovation.

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Innovation Team Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

No company ever dazzled the world by lackadaisically going after a market. So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly?

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

” Survey respondents included Presidents, Chief Information Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, and Chief Data Officers representing 50 industry giants, including American Express, Capital One, Disney, Ford Motors, General Electric, JP Morgan, MetLife, Nielsen, Turner Broadcasting, United Parcel Service, and USAA. .”

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Company Chief Information Officer Parcell Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. Know the risks and the costs.

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Innovation Execution Net Present Value Open-book 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. Supermarkets are a case in point.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Data-Driven Marketing. Marketing and sales: offline vs. online. Brand marketing and the car buying experience have always been integral to being a premium automotive brand, and the majority of those crucial interactions have already moved online.

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Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

However, this varies dramatically based on organizations’ digital maturity. So, how are more digitally mature IT departments leading the way in transformation? But they also have changed how they work with each part of the company, allowing them to learn and adapt faster as new opportunities arise and markets change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

Alphabet, Larry Page writes on abc.xyz —Alphabet’s new URL—stands for two things: A collection of letters that represent language, the substrate for Google’s indexed search results (the company’s mature business). Many have already built maturing, multi-billion dollar core businesses, however.

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Strategy Maturity Business Model Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

A point of market share creates five times that amount. It’s one reason why it is so critical that companies begin to invest in growth before they need growth so they create space and time for those investments to mature. If we just take our investment in innovation and redirect it to our core business, we’ll be much better off.”.

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Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 11

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.

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Disaggregation Supply Chain Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Note that the high-profile C-suite executives at firms like Borders, Jessops, and Bank of New England had large IT budgets, but no longer have a company to make more efficient today.).

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

Competitive Advantage: Organizations that embrace HR analytics gain a competitive edge by leveraging data to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and make better decisions. HR analytics enables organizations to attract and retain top talent, optimize resource allocation, and adapt to changing market dynamics.

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Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2011

That alone will add what I estimate to be a one-third productivity tax on the newly entered workforce — because workers have to hunt for information, applications inhibit collaboration, and legal requirements prevent business innovation. When IT leads the purchasing, systems remain structured, orderly, and efficient.

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Technology Early Adopters Bottom-up Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The development of new technologies is complex and challenging, and to come up with the next big innovation, businesses must think — and operate — in new ways. But more recently, emerging-market locations have featured prominently in global firms’ technology portfolios. our research shows.

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Globalization Engineering Technology Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Those that successfully harvest vast troves of data can improve productivity; make faster and more accurate decisions; reduce costs; increase competitive advantage; discover new business models and innovations; and better engage customers, employees, and partners.

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Technology Content Market Segmentation Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

“ Employer branding ” is no longer simply a concern for recruitment marketing; it is also a key component of effective organizational leadership. These persona-oriented profiles make it easier to market content to specific target groups, and help you find the right talent. Delivering on your promises.

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Globalization Brand Survey Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

rubber trees take years to mature.". Eric looked back at the student and said, "Couldn''t you take some of that grant money and haul in some mature trees to test your assumptions?" For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike.

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Company Ries Maturity Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

firms struggle more than ever to maintain this balance and in particular to maintain exploration as they grow and mature. Amazon and Google are examples of companies known for their sustained exploratory drive, while also focusing relentlessly on operational efficiency and commercial excellence. Our research shows that U.S.

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Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But as start-ups mature, the grow-at-all-cost narrative will be replaced by a flight to capital efficiency and profitability. In this next chapter, the Philippines — the world’s second-fastest growing economy — will play a crucial role in helping tech companies access the talent to scale efficiently and sustainably.

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Outsourcing Technology B2B GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM is leading the charge for a radical (and therefore risky) transformation in its client companies: using automated expertise on a large scale to efficiently solve problems too huge and complex for humans to conquer on their own. The most successful innovative companies buy startups and other private companies to help transform themselves.

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Increase market share? Innovate more effectively? Drive strategy and accelerate change? All of the above?

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Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

We are entering that same phase of maturity with Big Data. These costs can be expected to level off as experience and efficiencies are brought to bear. Identify opportunities for innovation. Innovation continues to be a source of promise for Big Data. Develop the right metrics. Prepare for cultural and business change.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8