The Horizons Tracker
MARCH 15, 2023
A few years ago a report from the Institute for Engineering and Technology (IET) found that the public is not really sold on the benefits of smart cities, due in large part to confusion about just what the term means and precisely what makes a city smart (or not).
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2013
When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. An engineer, he says, because engineers help other people solve problems. Innovation does not only come from professional staff or consist of honing historic strategies.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like?
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
was the watchword of tourism. We just needed to work on design, engineering, and production until every outcome was like every other outcome. Only then do we know what the day has in store for us. American travelers used to insist on full disclosure and perfect standardization. "No No surprises!" We just don't know.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 26, 2015
While working with a huge Russian hydrocarbon company in Texas last year, our innovation conversation quickly zeroed in on customers. Then one of the engineering executives, a fracking enthusiast and unconventional extraction technologies champion, spoke up. The unhappy innovation inference? No one disagreed.
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