The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

As Michael Hammer famously warned back in 1990, it’s no use applying new technologies to old processes, so in order to get the most out of AI and automation, jobs are having to be redesigned so that man and machine can work well together. Redesigning the business.

Supply Chain 64

Supply Chain Technology Hammer Report 64

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2019

In closing, remember that the only chains and shackles that hold any of us back from any goal in life are those that we ourselves forge in the fires of doubt and hammer out on the anvils of lack of belief. Select goals based on your own needs, not on others’ needs. Raymond Houser is the author of THE WINNING ADVANTAGE:?

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Succession Hammer Goal Career 87

Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. Michael Hammer was a bold and revolutionary thinker, the coauthor of Reengineering the Corporation, the most important business book of the 1990s. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. Without the diagram the equipment would be useless. About the Authors.

Hammer 50

Hammer Chief Executive Officer Metrics Process 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

The daily deal industry, still dominated by Groupon, is in the midst of rapid-fire innovation, presenting new opportunities — and some significant risks — for merchants. But merchants should be cautious and skeptical about these innovations. Dholakia is the William S.

Innovation 14

Innovation Hammer Maslow Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We use this simple framework to determine the success of an innovative effort. In other words, successful innovation requires motive, means, and opportunity. Innovation efforts fail anytime they fail to deliver on all three of these domains strongly enough.

Innovation 14

Innovation Hammer Discount Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

These days, I advise Fortune 500 executives to treat talent as they would customers: Understand their behavior, and design recruiting strategies that meet them where they are. Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. At least one company has worked Quora specifically into its recruitment strategy.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. Sometimes this is the natural result of portfolio strategy. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” Bending the rules brings the process police out.

Brand 10

Brand Hammer Advertising Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. So far, the same seems to hold true for AI: Early AI adopters with a very proactive, strictly offensive strategy report a much better profit outlook than those without one.

Survey 11

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge. Innovation Technology'

Industry 8

Industry Hammer Transportation Technology 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2020

Innovative Appearance. If you take advantage of the broad range of new technologies on offer, you can demonstrate to customers and investors that you are an innovative business that looks towards the future. Profit margins, budgets, and return on investments are all things that are hammered into business owners’ heads daily.

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Hammer Efficiency Tools Innovation 68

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Shifting from Drucker's erudition and measured tone to Hammer's revolutionary and provocatively violent declarations ("don't automate, obliterate") was a bit dizzying. I list these below as a guide for anyone — from bloggers, to academics, to strategy consultants — looking to produce world-class thought leadership.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

As with earlier technologies, we are now hearing advice about “AI strategies” and how companies should hire Chief AI Officers. In much the same way that the rise of Big Data led to the Data Scientist craze , the argument is that every organization now needs to hire a C-Level officer who will drive the company’s AI strategy.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Analysis Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape…That’s what this degree of yours is — a blunt instrument. As Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy at Airbnb, I allocated one-fifth of my time to employees from all over the organization as a confidante and coach.)

Wiseman 10

Wiseman Mentor Hammer Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization. Think of the equity of a brand in terms of a bank account. Google is wise to learn from these two brand histories.

Brand 8

Brand Banking Apparel Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Have those with MBAs specialized in strategy, marketing, or entrepreneurship? This can take many forms — an agreement that an employee can use office space and resources outside normal business hours to hammer out a side project over time, for instance, or a month-long sabbatical to let them dig into their passion all at once.

Entrepreneur 9

Entrepreneur Incentives Hammer Project 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. The result will be innovation. HBR: Of the interviews, what jumped out at you?

Project 8

Project Advice Henderson Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

can often have a superior attitude and be zealots with a hammer, so that everything looks like a nail. If there are continual changes in a company's markets or strategy, that company will most likely need to make productivity improvements part of everyone's job. Finally, the improvement experts (and I am one!)

Six Sigma 15

Six Sigma Bottom-up Cost Project 15

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

That’s why in most organizations good news zooms to the top, while bad news – data that reveals goals missed, problems lurking, or feedback that challenges or defeats our strategy – flows uphill like molasses in January. Because innovation requires it. Unusually excellent leaders understand this reality.

CEO 57

CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Traditional businesses should worry, and maybe they should think about platform strategies. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. Based on our research into the wave of online platforms that have started in the last two decades, we don’t necessarily disagree.

Technology 8

Technology Hammer Operations Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

That’s a proven strategy; China is not one market for almost anything. But by going for the mass market to reach higher valuation and to fuel its larger platform strategy, Uber brought on extra challenges. There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.”

Marketing 8

Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 21, 2020

It’s a process that goes back to Michael Hammer’s famous missive in the Harvard Business Review in 1990, in which he outlines the inevitable failure of any new technology so long as it is transplanted onto processes that were designed for a previous generation of tools. around its introduction.”

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Govindarajan Technology Hammer Process 73

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The buds of innovation are fragile, and are easily squashed by critique or a view of the competitive market environment. When process is a hammer, the risk is that everything becomes a nail. First, it’s easy to talk yourself out of a good idea. More importantly, it’s easy to talk yourself into a bad idea.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Reis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Noble: Impact investing is about strategy. Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. It will get harder and harder for mainstream investors to not develop some strategies in this area.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Don’t think you’re going to sit down and hammer it out in an hour. Strategy and business development executive with substantial experience designing, leading, and implementing a broad range of corporate growth and realignment initiatives. It should match what they’re looking for. And be sure to avoid clichés.

How To 15

How To Career Sample Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

In addition to laying out an approach for making one-time improvements, Reengineering's high priest (the late Michael Hammer) had advice for organizations wanting to sustain improvement. Lean "senseis" (teachers) say strategy deployment, executives as coaches, and front-line problem-solving sustain improvement.

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

But the Doritos Locos Taco, a faux cheese-caked calorie coffin, is seemingly an innovative job creator. “It The Daily Beast's Daniel Gross talks with Creed, an Australian who once worked at Unilever, to unwrap the company's successful strategy. INNOVATION, I AM YOUR FATHER. You read that right: 15,000 people.

Chief Executive Officer 8

Chief Executive Officer Hammer Competitive Advantage Innovation 8