The Horizons Tracker

MAY 14, 2019

When you think of AI in healthcare it’s perhaps common to think of software products that can help provide the kind of earlier diagnoses promoted by companies like DeepMind and IBM. It represents the clearest indicator from the FDA that regulation is coming to AI-driven products in healthcare. Regulatory framework.

Power 71

Power Health Care Software Technology 71

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

This is because most CRM platforms measure customer interactions solely upon product purchase history and preferences. As should be obvious, this set of metrics is biased not only to product centric data, but also toward historical data, and does not take into account experience or forward looking trends & preferences.

Blog 286

Blog CRM Management Brand 286

Lead on Purpose

MAY 5, 2009

Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices.

Marketing 113

Marketing Productivity Products Ethics 113

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

Leadership 284

Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

A recent McKinsey report found that while 84% of corporate executives think innovation is key to achieving growth objectives, only 6% are satisfied with the innovation performance of their firm. Even if executives try to prioritize it, innovation often gets crowded out by more “urgent” short-term pressures.

Innovation 8

Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

This is the latest step in the company''s journey to dramatically reduce the cost of space travel, and follows the first private resupply of the International Space Station with the launch of their Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft last fall. Musk quickly zeroed in on the one area ripe for innovation: cost reduction.

Cost 8

Cost Innovation Long-term Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

According to a new study from Stanford, once a company goes public, innovation declines. And that’s not all: Top inventors also tend to bail, and those who remain, waiting for their options to vest, typically suffer a decline in productivity. How Netflix, HBO, ESPN punish international travelers (CNET). MY PASSWORD IS PASSWORD.

Innovation 8

Innovation Finance Technology Travel 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

’ One could imagine an Apple car that is a Tesla-like product—one with comparable speed, self-driving technology, aesthetics, and features–but is so seamlessly integrated with the Apple ecosystem and requires a new sized iPhone, or some kind of blend of iPhone, iPad or MacBook. How about a man cave on wheels? Or a kitchen?

Transportation 9

Transportation Sports Pharmaceuticals Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

A second set of entrepreneurs focus on information goods and think of IT as the product. But today there is a third approach, one that will become the dominant path for most entrepreneurs, especially those building information products. Need travel information or services? How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Airlines Construction Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If they don’t like a company’s product, or an experience they had, the whole world will know about it. Making this connection can be more challenging for big established companies, whose primary success is built on products and value propositions from an earlier time. They already account for a third of the U.S.

Company 8

Company Hotels Travel Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2013

Are you selling a lower margin product that will take time to gain traction? Plan for a realistic amount of sales and interest so you can conservatively manage your finances. Your product or service should offer true value. Does your intended service or product bring something new to the consumer? Offer unique attributes.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Hotels Travel Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

Because she is paid in cash and conducts all of her transactions in cash, she must travel to pay her bills for medical or child care in person. The evidence suggests that many of these financial service innovations are having a positive impact on the well-being of people in these markets.

Banking 8

Banking Insurance Marketing Tools 8

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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Priceline introduced the “conditional price offer,” an economic notion developed by the company’s founder, Jay Walker, who put his undergraduate economics training to good use to form a company that has revolutionized travel. Economists and finance. Economists and market design.

Strategy 11

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences. Investing in innovators simply can't happen in markets with weak property rights. I've traveled around the world and have seen smart people everywhere. And while most nations are inventive, few innovate.

GDP 11

GDP Travel Innovation Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Since 1995, small employers have created about two out of every three net new jobs65%of total net job creation.

Technology 8

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A recent Fortune article on John Reed, the former co-CEO of Citigroup, reported that a decade ago he tried to convince the newly formed Citigroup board (the result of the $70 billion merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998) to bring in a new CEO and that both he and Travelers CEO Sandy Weill should leave.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

But unlike most Japanese innovations, it did not come from a big established firm. The consummate loner, Harano would likely have stayed off our radar screen, except that one day his unpredictable behavior led to a fantastically successful product. In fact, the idea for the product itself came from a female secretary at Altus.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Business Incubator IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Whether developing a new venture, managing an internal corporate innovation initiative, or working to develop globally successful product and service designs (my profession), nothing is more important than understanding what people need and desire in context of what the competition is providing. So what do you do?

Benchmarking 14

Benchmarking Maslow Analysis Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

These intense work styles are often celebrated as the only way to get to the top and be a super-productive leader. “The culture in the bank’s accounting and finance team has changed totally since I got here,” she said. I see it all the time,” He said. “The bottom line increases when you make these changes.”

Banking 15

Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

If you would prefer to be a leader in terms of starting and supporting projects, then your leadership goals could focus on bringing in innovation, organizing resources, and finding funding for your company projects. Depending on the field, there may be varying opportunities to take the lead and make a difference.

Examples 52

Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. “My guess is that one hundred percent of United’s employees are superconsumers of travel,” he said.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Nonetheless, even those parts of care that could be freed from the doctor’s office remain tied to it, with schedules optimized for doctors’ productivity rather than what’s best for the patient. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods. A Way Forward.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. How successful has the company been at creating new products, services, and business models?

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

Especially when a majority of your clients are women, it makes sense for women's voices to contribute to the next generation of products you will offer. For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees.

Microfinance 14

Microfinance Diversity Banking Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

A whopping 46 percent of shoppers reported they exclusively use their mobile device to conduct pre-purchase research for local products and services. Internal data from some finance, healthcare, and travel providers show similar mobile-only usage. Innovations in Digital and Mobile Marketing An HBR Insight Center.

Content 11

Content Audience Marketing Strategy Report 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

They have defied assurances by market regulators that they offer fair products and services in the exchanges. Regulators must innovate and create structures that correct inherent flaws which continue to stymie market efficiencies. Yet since those epic letdowns, few bold regulatory reforms have been enacted in most African exchanges.

Insurance 8

Insurance Incentives Quality Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Yet by rethinking the use of personal data from the ground up, entrepreneurs can mine new opportunities for experimentation and innovation. The first is to design products that shift control of personal data toward consumers (and away from data-brokers and gray markets ). This involves focusing on three goals.

Engineering 8

Engineering Information Technology Information Policies 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The paper explores the progress of startups in the US and Israel, and shows that startups that move to America tend to raise more money, get acquired more often, and introduce more new products than their peers that remain in Israel. They raised more money and were acquired at higher valuations; however, they did not innovate more.

Biotechnology 66

Biotechnology Human Capital Travel Entrepreneur 66

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

This medium has been my preferred reading choice for a number of years now because it is extremely productive and time effective. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. If you are not a heavy consumer of online information you are truly missing the boat.

Blog 419

Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

As I travel to urban development conferences, I often hear people bemoan an infrastructure funding gap, but the hard truth is there is no funding gap. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This should remind us that if the proposed TSA boycott reduces air travel by only a fraction of a percent, it offers a golden opportunity to kill and maim thousands more on our nations highways. No selling of products or services. The tragedy here is that, as with poison ivy and the immune system, there really is no one to blame.

Airlines 14

Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

BPM reflected the interactions of different stakeholders, from product creation through supply chain to final assembly. This will likely mean a more flexible work structure as well, in the interest of products and services that ideally can be adjusted to anticipate customer needs. How it effects product design and customer experience.

Management 11

Management Software BPM Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Executives and entrepreneurs from all over the world have traveled to Silicon Valley to learn the secrets of its success. These conversations highlighted some attitudes and values that seemed to go a long way toward explaining Silicon Valley’s innovation identity. Build platforms, not products. vincent tsui FOR HBR.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Use risk data as an avenue for innovation. With a little creativity, CMOs can work with them to monetize that data to create new products and, in some cases, whole new markets. The ability to offer financing gave the technology vendor a point of differentiation that helped it beat its revenue projection for the year.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8