The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

While it’s largely foolhardy to place too much faith in the various estimates of individual jobs vulnerability to technological and economic disruption, what seems far more certain is that disruption will become a way of life, especially in an era where our life expectancy continues to grow and therefore our time in work stretches outwards.

Technology 95

Technology Competitive Advantage Training Report 95

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Be ready and carefully plan out their first week. Focus groups and stay-interviews can reveal why people want to come to work every day. Performance reviews are just a part of performance management – an ongoing process of planning, continual monitoring and frequent feedback. Employee engagement and retention.

Succession 137

Succession Benchmarking Performance Review Handbook 137

HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Embracing Technology: From Simulations to Virtual Reality In today’s digital age, technology offers endless possibilities for training. Embrace the power of technology by incorporating simulations, virtual reality, and gamified elements into your training materials. What did they find valuable? What could be improved?

Training 98

Training Succession Objective Learning-by-Doing 98

Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well. They then took it one step further and asked, "How would you find the technology and material to meet this need?" Technology + Methodology. Robust + Comprehensive Insights.

Stage-Gate 128

Stage-Gate Productivity Products Innovation 128

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

In fact, HR in high-risk industries should implement a variety of avenues/opportunities for employee feedback, such as phone hotlines, online and on-site suggestion boxes, employee surveys, focus groups, new hire surveys and exit interviews. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

Mentor 232

Mentor Trends Committee Compliance 232

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When you're planning on starting a business, you need to have a business plan, secure the right talent to fill any gaps you have, have a proper space to work, and of course, money. See if you can't put a small focus group together, preferably strangers. If you have, you're not alone; 99.7%

Tips 95

Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Tony Mayo

MARCH 10, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? Plan to have 6-12 participants.

Mayo 158

Mayo Execution Executive Coaching How To 158

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. And remember that technology connects people in faster and more transparent ways than ever! Rule 6: Rely on Others for Growth and Innovation. Take Mountain Dew, for example.

Media 67

Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The increasing availability of data coupled with the abundance of sophisticated technologies, tools, and applications give filmmakers an opportunity to improve decision making for better forecast revenue before a movie is released. Producers can have a mechanism in place to effectively predict profitability to secure investment capital.

Film 15

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The increasing availability of data coupled with the abundance of sophisticated technologies, tools, and applications give filmmakers an opportunity to improve decision making for better forecast revenue before a movie is released. Producers can have a mechanism in place to effectively predict profitability to secure investment capital.

Film 15

Film Franchising Budgeting Audience 15

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. And before you start building your own Social Nation, you need to have a well-researched game plan. Quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes, political hacktivists brag about Web pages defaced and customer information released over the Internet, but companies rarely reveal the attacks that result in the loss of valuable intellectual property — business plans, proprietary technologies or fraudulent payments. These attacks can be devastating.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

The plan is to create 10-minute programs; think YouTube meets Netflix. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2 billion dollars in the bank, it plans on jumping right in. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. And it may work. IPOs dried up.

IPO 8

IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Doyle’s talk was titled, “How to Transform a Legacy Company into a Technology-Enabled, Nimble, Category-Disrupting Machine” — and it delivered. Domino’s is not just in the pizza-making business, the CEO emphasizes, but in the pizza- delivery business, which means it has to be in the technology business.

CEO 8

CEO Open-book Price Innovation 8

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Mercer QuickPulse US Compensation Planning Survey of August 2023 found that employers are planning a 3.9 While the numbers are lower than last year, many employees still stand to gain from these plans. Be an active market player to plan out how to create an equitable compensation system.

System 52

System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. (We When the separation plans were announced, I knew our employees would be anxious. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) What values drove them?

Management 10

Management IPO Diversity Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Our research on women in the science, engineering, and technology industries shows that, regardless of gender, acting “like a man” can provide an advantage in becoming a leader in these fields. Within that framework our research has uncovered four levers that drive inclusion.

Diversity 8

Diversity Career Focus Group Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Grose quotes IbisWorld researcher Jocelyn Phillips as pointing to the high-tech aspects of Clearblue’s test, also noting that young women might be more willing to shell out more money for such technology — the digital version costs about $5 more than the boring old blue and pink line version.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Marketing Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

Specifically we used interviewing and focus groups to find out whether many of the root causes of engagement are actually found outside the workplace. One of our clients was a $1 billion services company with a plan to grow to $5 billion. The answer? A resounding “yes.”

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Self-aware Survey Influence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. They cultivate influential mentors.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

And I'd say using the very, very awesome Twitter to solicit "questions" from citizens in this environment is a little bit like earnestly running a focus group about the best color for your next pair of $2000 loafers — while your boardroom's on fire. Yet, all is far from lost. Here's the good news. In political terms?

Marketing 15

Marketing Loyalty Decentralization Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2015

For example, I started consulting in the small business space because a client at a technology firm that provided products for small businesses suggested that I had the right skills for this field. Build “project reviews” or “check-in” meetings into the project plan. This can be either in-person or virtual.

How To 8

How To Project Review Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

The next: to collect the right data and determine the best plan of attack. To answer these questions, the analytics team created focus groups of senior Sprint executives and managers, who reviewed the feedback and made informed decisions based on the data. Asking those questions is the first step. Take Sprint.

Metrics 12

Metrics Parcell Call Center Productivity 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

An effort under way at the Mayo Clinic shows how such technology can be used to improve outcomes and lower costs in health care. The plan was configured uniquely for each patient based on his or her surgery, medical conditions, and pre-hospital functional status. A screenshot of Day 2 of a typical Plan of Day is shown below.).

Mayo 9

Mayo Education Software Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2017

Not least in the online search abilities, speech and translation features, and image recognition technology of my employer, Alphabet. Whatever hype businesspeople read around AI — and there is a great deal — the intentions and actions of so many players should alert them to the fundamental importance of this new technology.

Company 12

Company Training Technology Wireless 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

E-commerce players were still figuring things out, and brick-and-mortar stores weren’t really experimenting with technology. Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient. Each group can imagine things are possible that the other might not have dreamed of.

Brand 10

Brand CTO Marketing Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

Better-quality feedback from customers and stakeholders, often because you’re asking them to actually buy something, rather than just spout opinions in a focus group. You want to get as close to perfection in some of these technologies as possible, but the goal also has to be progress, not just perfection.

Company 8

Company Airlines Ries Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But what these groups should be doing longer-term — what value they should be providing their members, how their leaders should steer and contribute to the effort, and what types of events and services they should offer — is frustratingly hard to see, or agree on. Use resources on hand.

Organization 10

Organization How To Seminar Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

At the same time, technologies like selfie sticks, Fitbits, and wearable video cameras are making people comfortable monitoring their own calorie consumption, sleep patterns, heart rate, friends, family, and daily experiences. “You just can’t get this depth of insight in a one-off focus group or survey,” Hadnot notes.

Document 8

Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Some companies don’t have the systems and technology to segment and profile customers. What’s more, employees participate in an annual event alongside hosts so that together they discuss learnings from the past year and plans for the next. .” Why do so many companies struggle to get customer centricity right?

Short-term 12

Short-term Learning-by-Doing Participative Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

It could well be that a charismatic candidate who appealed to minorities, made better use of campaign technology, and embraced some modest policy changes (mainly on immigration and gay marriage) could sweep Republicans back into the White House.

Brand 8

Brand Productivity Products P&L 8