The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Already we’ve seen retail demand falling to unprecedented levels, with reduced mobility also causing demand for oil to plummet. It’s widely accepted that the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic will be substantial.

Short-term 84

Short-term Long-term Survey Leadership Styles 84

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Given the unrelenting pace of change surrounding organizations in virtually every industry, companies are looking for executives who know how to innovate and introduce change, not simply caretakers who can manage the status quo. Senior management doesn't really encourage innovation, you'll hear.

Innovation 15

Innovation Merchandising How To Proposal 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

If your business is to thrive, it is essential that you manage your workforce effectively. Human resources management is all about striking a balance between encouragement, rewards, and sanctions. If your business operates in the retail sector, you should invest in sales technique training.

Training 50

Training Budgeting Bottom-up Long-term 50

You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 31, 2010

They stifle creativity and innovation. As they often say in retail stores about handling merchandise, “ If you break it you own it”. If we are to encourage the innovators of our time we must also accept that rules should be subject to rigorous question and challenge. What do you think?

Maturity 50

Maturity Blog Merchandising McCarthy 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. And it’s one that stems from a very human problem in most big organizations. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial. A Different Approach.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In industries like retail, customer service, and hospitality, entry-level turnover alone costs billions of dollars each year, based on voluntary turnover rates and annual replacement costs. The young people we surveyed worked in a wide variety of industries, including health care, manufacturing, retail, and hospitality.

Survey 8

Survey Retail How To Reis 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. For knowledge workers, time is incredibly scarce.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

To deliver more value, the human resources function needs to spend more time accelerating operational improvement and less time on its traditional administrative and compliance activities. To get the "people" part of process improvement right, HR needs employees who can go toe-to-toe discussing operational changes with line managers.

Process 13

Process Compliance Operations Human Resources 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. But the most common cause of death they reported?

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Company Due Diligence Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Many executives today worry that skill shortages threaten their organization’s ability to grow and innovate. A recent survey I designed for one manufacturing sector found that almost 60% of managers responding thought skill shortages were already hurting their firm’s productivity and quality. Each one calls for a different response.

Skills 8

Skills Human Resources Engineering Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. Just ask anyone working in the health care, financial services, automobile, retail, media, publishing, education, advertising, real estate or defense industries.

Human Capital 9

Human Capital Real Estate Human Resources Disruptive Innovation 9

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

HR analytics, also known as people analytics or workforce analytics, is a data-driven approach that empowers Human Resources Management (HRM) by collecting, analyzing, and interpreting HR data. By applying prescriptive analytics, organizations can optimize HR processes, such as recruitment, training, and performance management.

Metrics 98

Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Today, the guild mentality persists within companies, where functions such as marketing, sales, finance, IT, human resources and R&D all have their own area of special expertise. If the products are hits, that's even better; because it "owns the shelf," there's a direct link back to innovation and marketing.

Operations 13

Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Successful companies such as Starbucks (inspired by coffeehouses in Italy) and the German online retailer Zalando (inspired by Zappos) exemplify the potential of this strategy. Entrepreneurs and managers can actively seek to build such experiences by living abroad and systematically comparing what they observe in other markets.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Retail Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

It may do to physical goods what cloud computing is now doing to digital services; what the PC, internet, and smart mobility have done to personal computing; and what outsourcing did to software development and business processing — take mass distribution and innovation to the next level while realigning the very geography of work and trade.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 22, 2015

I consider Google a tier-one innovator. At Zappos, CEO Tony Hsieh has set his cultural sights on a holacracy management system a radical change from conventional structures. You “fix brands before they break” with innovations that add value and fortify the bran d’ s raison d’être. This initiative isn’t change.

Brand 100

Brand Core Competence Retail Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. The New Face of Investment Banks. These divisions will only deepen as investment banks focus more exclusively on the need to integrate new technology.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Bottom-up Compliance 8

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Helena Gottschling: Even with the onslaught of new technologies, it’s still people that drive innovation, creativity, engagement and, ultimately, business value – all the things that set one company apart from the next. Helena Gottschling is RBC's Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) with global responsibility for Human Resources.

Banking 45

Banking Human Resources Diversity Career 45

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. Risk and outcomes, as the scenario plays out, will be managed by predictive models, which are powered by machine learning algorithms that will improve their accuracy rates over time. Or lenders’ enhanced abilities to gauge credit risk.

Health Care 8

Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Making the most of a company's data requires oversight and evangelism at the highest levels of management. It's also likely that such information is hidden from the retail lending division tasked with rating the customer. This structural separation makes it difficult to implement data solutions across an organization.

Venture Funding 15

Venture Funding Price Technology Tactics 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. I would guess 90% of all managers believe in their ability to undertake professional interviews.

CIO 15

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. Industries with the highest have more female-dominated workforces and include health care, education and retail industries (43 to 47 percent of leaders are women).Industries Wellins, Ph.D., Goldman Sachs. 2014) Womenomics 4.0:

Diversity 120

Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

“We’ll spend a lot of time bringing product to market, but we need to plan for the fact that a launch gives us a six-month head start and no more,” says Gary Booker, CMO of Dixons Retail. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

P&L 10

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

Organizations have always depended on data — to manage operations, to communicate with customers, to pay employees and suppliers, to plan their futures, and so forth. Similarly, Fitbit counts steps and provides some simple summaries that help people better manage their fitness. But how, and at what price?

Business Model 8

Business Model Price Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. Human resources.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2015

Culture, strategy, leadership, branding, innovation, customer orientation and employee centricity must co-exist. Most leaders and managers know this. This creates frantic searches by leaders and managers for any and every opportunity that might yield a new source of revenue and profit. . or so the saying goes.

Strategy 100

Strategy Critical Success Factor McKinsey Retail 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Consider a study published by the New York Times which found that, even though they are regular employees, retail workers tend to have unstable, unpredictable work schedules, making it difficult to plan child care, enroll in school, or handle other responsibilities. Indeed, a lot of "regular" jobs aren't all that attractive.

Outsourcing 14

Outsourcing Retail Trends Project 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Important clues are emerging from a unique consortium of human resource executives and other leaders. Technology evolves, but management and workplace arrangements evolve more slowly. Technology evolves, but management and workplace arrangements evolve more slowly. How can leaders navigate this new digital work ecosystem?

Human Resources 8

Human Resources Technology Globalization Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. The athletic apparel giant has also engaged a broad base of partners (and competitors) in innovation toward that goal. It's not enough to change one company.

Organization 13

Organization Cooper McKinsey Long-term 13