The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Predictions of technological change are often very similar, which perhaps explains why the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) famously found that just 10% of technology predictions made by experts between 1990 and 2007 were accurate.

Technology 120

Technology Survey Fashion Information Technology 120

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In these challenging times, Francine Katsoudas, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer of CISCO, is making a herculean effort to build on the advantages of a values-driven corporate culture. At the executive level, many of us have a really special opportunity to serve as a country sponsor. Francine Katsoudas.

Learning-by-Doing 98

Learning-by-Doing Innovation Human Resources Information Technology 98

CEO Insider

JUNE 30, 2023

The acquisition minded executive is the norm in the business world. Most executives I’ve talked to are either actively seeking acquisitions or, to use their common turn of phrase, they’re “opportunistic.” In other words, if the right deal falls into their laps, they might be stirred into action.

Company 106

Company Magazine Execution Books 106

CEO Insider

APRIL 29, 2023

CEOWORLD Magazine has announced the appointment of new members to its board of directors and executive council.

Magazine 133

Magazine Hotels CEO Execution 133

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Let me give you a great example…It is not at all uncommon for an executive to tell me that his/her business doesn’t really have any competition. What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service?

Blog 305

Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 305

Modern Servant Leader

JULY 10, 2012

However, Shockley becomes increasingly frustrated with Bell Labs management team who passes him over for executive promotions, due to his abrasive leadership style. Their work focuses on innovative developments with silicon. William Shockley contributes to the development of the first transistor while at Bell Labs in 1947.

IPO 197

IPO Leadership Letter Information Technology 197

Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

That executive decision began the downfall of the company. The new retail-oriented CEO decided to close down their website, fire their internal website experts and contract out information technology by having their books sold through Amazon.com. Barnes and Noble''s CEO has stepped down amid Nook losses. Related articles.

Chief Executive Officer 97

Chief Executive Officer eBook Leadership Leadership Styles 97

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Today’s C-level executives understand peripheral management of their critical applications, data systems, and shared services is not an effective, efficient, secure, or financially-feasible effort and require more robust, permanent solutions for assimilation into their BPM. Knowledge workers are businesses’ source of innovations.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2016

Since 2013, utility executives have announced the early retirement of twelve reactors and Wall Street estimates reveal another dozen to be at risk; raising the question: Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market?

Payback Period 50

Payback Period Power Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Executives never reach the pinnacle of their industry by consistently taking timid action. 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? Instead, they've been carefully organized to execute. In 1984, Apple Inc.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

But these things don’t stop mattering for senior executives. Senior executives struggle with burnout just like everyone else, and technology has made this issue more prevalent than ever. This allows executives to calmly disconnect while knowing that if an emergency arises, they will be made aware of it.

Execution 11

Execution CIO Chief Information Officer Learning-by-Doing 11

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Drive Innovation. Technology’s impact on society and business is substantial as it has become a part of everyday life. In an ever-changing, dynamic market, businesses must be able to brand themselves as unique by constantly innovating. It is how people communicate, work, and connect. About the Author.

Strategy 50

Strategy Outsourcing Process Technology 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Suppose you're a senior executive at a large financial services company such as Nationwide Insurance or ING. Would you look to your information technology organization for ways to improve customer service? Would you ask IT to come up with ideas for new financial products and services, or new ways to deliver them? Probably not.

Process 13

Process Innovation Agility Insurance 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Executives never reach the pinnacle of their industry by consistently taking timid action. 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? Instead, they've been carefully organized to execute. In 1984, Apple Inc.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Technology Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

These stock buybacks have come under criticism as a bad investment – the argument being that companies sitting on record amounts of cash ought to invest in innovation, salaries, or at least dividends, rather than pumping up their own stock price through buybacks. Not so fast. The two different types of research are complementary.

Innovation 8

Innovation Short-term Long-term Budgeting 8

CEO Insider

MAY 26, 2023

This month I had my biannual chance to be a fly on the wall while Silicon Valley Investor Partners had a very candid, frank conversation with a group of Seed/A startups that had already raised sizable rounds during the “party” of 2021 funding.

Magazine 106

Magazine Chief Information Officer Company Information Technology 106

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

Innovation 8

Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2014

job market troubles of the past decade than new technology had. But I couldn’t help but fixate on that information-technology chart, which seemed to show corporate America giving up on IT. Or maybe modern information technology just keeps getting cheaper. Economy Information & technology Internet'

GDP 13

GDP Information Technology Company Christensen 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster.

Magazine 52

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. Michael Tardif has over twenty years of experience applying information technologies to the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings. Michael Tardif.

Creativity 58

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

CEO Insider

JUNE 18, 2023

In recent years, cherished US institutions have revealed toxic workplace cultures characterized by racism, bullying, misogyny, homophobia or a combination of all four, that is hard to fathom. It’s easy enough to write these instances off as extreme anomalies in the corporate world.

Career 52

Career Strategy Magazine Productivity 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation. The breakthrough innovator’s hypothesis doesn’t have to come from a human.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Hedge Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Digital technology is the biggest agitator of the business world today. Mobile technology, social media, cloud computing, embedded devices, big data, and analytics have radically changed the nature of work and competition. And digital innovations will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

Management 9

Management Drucker Technology Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" As many companies move from exclusively internal focused R&D to distributed-innovation systems (e.g., Improving Operational Efficiency.

Enterprise Architecture 8

Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

The discussion was excellent and — on a whim — I asked one of the most senior executives what JetBlue’s customers could do to improve the airline. We get it, and let’s talk about it,’” declared one JetBlue executive about #FlightEtiquette. Customers Information & technology Innovation'

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Airlines Retail Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

What, another clarion call urging executives to fundamentally rethink their business models through digital technology? In our survey research , a mere 7% of executives said that their company’s digital initiatives were helping them to launch new businesses. Business model innovation is hard. Why is that?

Business Model 8

Business Model Insurance Technology Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But maybe the thrill of accomplishment in these pockets is diverting senior managers’ attention from another, even more critical opportunity: Digital technologies are also rapidly changing how managers can acquire and assess the information they use to develop and execute on enterprise-wide strategy.

Strategy 9

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. Information & technology Leadership'

Company 8

Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Not just those under attack for ethical lapses, accounting problems, or excessive compensation – retired college presidents are the latest to join corporate executives in the latter category. But my work with numerous top executives shows that this is a false choice. There are an awful lot of leaders in trouble these days.

Management 8

Management Real Estate Information Technology Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Why is repair service so maddening?

Engineering 8

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Why is repair service so maddening?

Engineering 8

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The persona of the next-generation CIO is evolving from Chief Infrastructure Officer through Chief Integration Officer and Chief Intelligence Officer to Chief Innovation Officer. For a CIO or other technology leader to make the move successfully from infrastructure to innovation, three key building blocks must be in place.

CIO 8

CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

Other senior executives have left as well. GE is hardly the only company to run into performance issues and sooner-than-expected executive departures in the midst of a huge digital transformation effort. We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets.

Technology 8

Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

What exactly are the issues that people have with Europe’s innovativeness? Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Let’s look at innovativeness. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

There are two kinds of health-care innovation: more-for-more and more-for-less. is the place to take advantage of the latest innovations such as proton-beam cancer-radiation therapy, for which the equipment and facilities cost about $1 billion. just has not been desperate enough to foster Indian-style health-care innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Disruptive Innovation Travel How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

A talented videogame-designing friend had a ready quip whenever start-up executives asked him if he was a “team player.” “Yes,” have become early adopters and innovators in multidimensional measurements for individuals and teams alike. Information & technology Managing people Talent management' He usually got hired.

Team 8

Team Sports Franchising Conference 8