The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For instance, cities provide the engine for growth as well as the environment for poverty and inequality to persist. “To understand how cities can be simultaneously fast and slow, rich and poor, innovative and unstable, requires reframing our fundamental understanding of what cities are and how they work,” they explain.

Uncertainty 82

Uncertainty GDP Innovation Engineering 82

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Beyond alarming questions of what is "fair" to the innovators themselves, few have considered how these human capital controls might impact the quality and quantity of innovation--and ultimately economic growth. Businesses hate uncertainty. We need diverse social and professional connections to innovate.

Innovation 126

Innovation Kaplan Diversity Open-book 126

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Their interest in our work has been to help their leaders and managers learn to cultivate a culture of connection so that everyone can give their best performance. Over the years, my colleagues and I have had the privilege of speaking and teaching workshops at NASA. The American Psychological Association’s survey of U.S.

Self-aware 332

Self-aware Stress Environment Long-term 332

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

“I explained the theory of the Lean Startup, repeating my definition: an organization designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.” This definition comes from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.

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Ries Company Entrepreneur Agility 216

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions. How well do your leaders perform in these critically important areas?

Self-aware 83

Self-aware Leadership COO Influence 83

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 9, 2021

The paper shows that the rate of startup formation has been on the decline for companies run by PhDs in science and engineering since 1997, which is particularly worrying as this group is regarded as crucial in transferring knowledge from lab to market. ” Declining fortunes. .” ” Declining fortunes.

Engineering 90

Engineering Entrepreneur Constraint Uncertainty 90

Next Level Blog

MAY 19, 2020

They went 17 days without any contact from the outside world and then, after they sent proof of life via a note attached to a drilling tube sent down from a rescue team above, spent another 53 days taking care of each other until an amazing rescue process was engineered and executed.

Leadership 246

Leadership Long-term Follow-up Uncertainty 246

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

It’s a cliché to say that the world is more uncertain than ever before, but few realize just how much uncertainty has increased over the past 50 years. Although uncertainty is accelerating, it isn’t affecting all industries the same way. The more unknowns there are about customer preferences, the greater the demand uncertainty.

Uncertainty 22

Uncertainty Industry Bottom-up Technology 22

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity?

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Execution Objective Learning-by-Doing System 345

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Join us in this cover story celebration of Liz Ryan, a change driver of the decade, as she unveils the secrets to creating workplaces where authenticity, trust, and innovation thrive. It doesn’t work well for hiring managers, candidates, agency recruiters or the HR and TA people who administer the recruiting engine.

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Ryan Handbook Letter Competitive Advantage 59

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 22, 2021

This negative correlation between loneliness and well-being was echoed in a second study by researchers at Aalborg University, which found that both the mental wellbeing and productivity of software engineers fell when they reported high levels of loneliness. ” Coping with loneliness.

Self-aware 118

Self-aware Survey Uncertainty Retail 118

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

I wrote recently about the challenges small businesses face in recruiting the engineering talent they require to build the kind of high-tech ventures that will advance society. “Historically, immigrants have helped America lead the world in technological innovation,” the authors say. Foreign-born talent fuels the U.S.

Process 58

Process Policies Uncertainty Long-term 58

HR Digest

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For many, this additional income helps them live a more comfortable life above their means, providing disposable income for those who can manage multiple jobs. Unstable Income While flexibility is desirable, knowing what the gig economy is will tell you that regular work is an uncertainty.

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Short-term Long-term Project Advertising 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Entrepreneurs are known for their creativity and risk tolerance; engineers, mathematicians, and health care workers typically aren’t. Consider, for example, the ideal attributes of a civil engineer building an interstate bridge near your home. Developing entrepreneurial mindsets in STEAM students is important.

Engineering 8

Engineering Health Care Entrepreneur Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. It’s happened to all of us. What do you do?

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

You’re driving down the road and the “check engine” light appears on your dashboard. But if you decide to keep driving, you risk something far worse happening to your engine – and your livelihood. This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. It’s happened to all of us. What do you do?

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2013

But how should managers go about unlocking the lessons of those efforts? Many of their consultants advocate an engineering approach: Find multiple examples of organizations that have coped with equivalent challenges successfully. Reverse-engineer the reasons for their success, looking for features that they share in common.

Engineering 10

Engineering Succession Mauborgne Critical Success Factor 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

We hear a lot these days about how big companies fail to innovate, but the truth is more complicated. If you closely analyze unsuccessful attempts at developing breakthrough products, perhaps the most common trouble you find is not one of the usual suspects, such as lack of top-management commitment.

Innovation 8

Innovation Management Uncertainty Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

Your current business is the performance engine. What’s missing from the managerial toolkit is a way for managers to allocate their—and their organization’s—time and attention and resources on a day-to-day basis across the competing demands of managing today’s requirements and tomorrow’s possibilities.

Innovation 8

Innovation Hedge Management Govindarajan 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

How to successfully deal with a new radical state of uncertainty will require leaders to reset their organizations, reframe their perceptions of problems and opportunities, and, most important, rethink the way they think. They need to be embraced by leaders to enable them to deal with a world of radical uncertainty.

Uncertainty 13

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

For the United States and Germany, strong multinational corporations and technological innovation are the driving factors. innovation is driven by a can-do spirit and a healthy appetite for risk, with established corporations and startups introducing some of the world’s most important and game-changing technologies.

Management 8

Management Market Penetration Innovation Engineering 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Procedures Poka-yoke , visual management , SMED and 5S. 15) Measure results in real time on the job, not only on the desk, by using visual management tools.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Steve Farber

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And that’s a good thing to keep in mind if you want to help build an innovative culture. We also know he led Athleta through tremendous growth and helped engineer the sale of the company to Gap in 2008 for $150 million. And it’s filled with uncertainty. My daughter works at Athleta HQ and raves about the place).

Apparel 40

Apparel Energy Workshop Uncertainty 40

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There was so much fear and uncertainty. At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. " I was on a plane a week later to attend my grandmother's funeral, and my wife and I were 2 of about 20 on that flight. I Think Not.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 404

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2013

Conversely, if you just hire and promote people who are friendly and easy to manage, your firm will be mediocre at best. Although every organization claims to care about innovation, very few are willing to do what it takes to keep their creative people happy, or at least, productive.

Creativity 15

Creativity Management Innovation Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. Digital transformation, the industrial internet, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and a plethora of other innovations are fundamentally changing the nature of work.

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Company Insurance Engineering Software 11

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. Most innovation methods don’t actually result in innovative solutions.

Innovation 57

Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

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

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Airbus has a complex process for managing the thousands of suppliers who contribute to the manufacturing of the A380. But perhaps the bigger problem is this advice is all offered with the mentality of an architect or engineer. If you try to manage complexity with an engineer’s mindset, you aren’t going to get it quite right.

Management 8

Management Engineering Decentralization System 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Is management – not yet a very old discipline – due for one? We could even say that the subject of management was touched by that first Renaissance. What would a second Renaissance look like in management today?

Management 8

Management Drucker Resistance Knowledge Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. All the originally appealing simplicity vanished into uncertainty.

Process 12

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

For most companies, both M&A and organic growth are managed like rocket launches. Once launched, the opportunity is micro-managed to ensure that everything goes according to plan. Managers focus on maximizing one’s share of the market for existing products. Test Like an Entrepreneur (Not an Engineer).

Organization 10

Organization Company Venture Capitalist B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Precision made it easy for managers to oversee their employees. Every spot on every line was visible to managers. But Bernstein and his team observed that when managers were not watching, employees secretly developed and shared better ways of doing the work. They couldn’t adapt to improve their work.

Organization 12

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

The other is a process called Opportunity Engineering (OE) that instills a different way to look at value. Since the Three Horizons represent different levels of uncertainty, they need to be managed and valued differently. This is where Opportunity Engineering comes into play.

NPV 14

NPV Net Present Value Price Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

Launch: Vision and Uncertainty. ” Similarly, a group of innovative organizations in the public sector are out to solve global social issues by achieving “ transformative scale.” ” In the launch phase, you need to realize that an exponential strategy has inherent uncertainty. Build: Courage and Patience.

How To 8

How To Business Model Uncertainty Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

“Death by a Thousand Cuts” Based on a comprehensive five-year study, my new research paper, published in the Academy of Management Discoveries this year, systematically identifies the reasons behind the failures of major Western digital firms in China. poor management of relations with Chinese regulators and the government.

Competitive Advantage 10

Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology Marketing 10