The Horizons Tracker

JULY 19, 2022

The development of the Covid vaccines was one of the major scientific and innovation breakthroughs of recent times. Another kind of innovation. The authors highlight how most of the attention when it comes to medical innovation is from areas such as drugs, biologics, and possibly medical devices. Procedural innovation.

Innovation 86

Innovation Incentives Crisis Analysis 86

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

One applications outsourcing team, for example, proposed a clever UX tweak to help optimize a global fulfillment process their company managed for its biggest client. Surely this cheap, customer-centric, and data-driven innovation would impress the client. All the originally appealing simplicity vanished into uncertainty.

Process 12

Process Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Supply Chain 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Product pioneers face more risk, but can reap big rewards when an innovation proves successful. Research I conducted together with John Joseph of Duke University shows that both approaches can be successful — what matters most is not simply timing but whether a company tailors its innovation strategy to whichever approach it adopts.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Incentives Innovation Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

opened the first leg of their 2012/13 M-Prize challenge: " Innovating Innovation." The M-Prize's overall goal is to "surface the world's most progressive management practices and most provocative management ideas" and connect and celebrate individuals reinventing management. Portfolio management.

Case Study 8

Case Study Uncertainty McKinsey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. But Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is using the Internet of Things to resolve the uncertainty. It brings certainty to a situation where uncertainty can drive tension into the driver/manufacturer relationship. You should be in and out in two hours.”.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This kind of uncertainty is a fact of life for many drivers. But Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) is using the Internet of Things to resolve the uncertainty. It brings certainty to a situation where uncertainty can drive tension into the driver/manufacturer relationship. You should be in and out in two hours.”.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." And even if there were, it would have to be expressed as a probability statement: How likely is Apple to innovate or out-innovate its peers?

Intangible Assets 15

Intangible Assets Analysis Pharmaceuticals Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

Levitt 11

Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2014

In our business context, we use it to describe making critical decisions the moment innovative action is needed, without waiting for a supervisor to sign off. We saw this recently when an employee implemented data classification and identity access management programs for a client. Reward teams and individuals for “Getting off the X.”

Agility 8

Agility Uncertainty Policies Training 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Some of the nation’s most innovative, high-performing non-profit health care organizations use this formula. This tends to focus doctors, nurses, and other health professionals on the value of what they do — finding the most cost-effective approach to managing their patients’ problems. But uncertainties remain.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Insurance Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

In order to understand trust in the relationship between humans and automation, we have to explore trust in two dimensions: trust in the technology and trust in the innovating firm. Trust is essential to reducing perceived risk, which is a combination of uncertainty and the seriousness of the potential outcome involved. Insight Center.

Technology 9

Technology Transportation Influence Resistance 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

You may think that the interim role is putting you in a Catch-22-like situation: You have to prove that you can be successful in order to get the actual job, but uncertainty undermines your status and challenges your ability to succeed. Will you get the support you need to succeed? However, doing so can damage important relationships.

How To 8

How To Mentor Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

“If you’re the boss, and you manage by asking questions, you’re laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group,” Grazer writes in his book, A Curious Mind. In many cases, managers and top executives have risen through the ranks by providing fixes and solutions, not by asking questions.

Christensen 8

Christensen Open-book CEO Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Yet most organizations don’t manage internal collaboration productively, and assume that technology or formal org charts can yield agility.

Agility 14

Agility Team How To Project 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Luckily, b-school professors seem to be hybrids of economist, therapist, actor, and manager. Incorporate the various actors, pressures, and uncertainties that create actual problems for leaders. Use incentives to stimulate moves and counter-moves.

Network Economy 9

Network Economy Education Agility Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

As an economist, my training in how individuals invest during times of uncertainty leads me to a much different prediction: America’s coastal cities are going to adapt, get ahead of climate change, and be just fine. Asset owners and investors thus have clear information about the strong incentive to adapt to this emerging risk.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

We sat down with Rotman Dean Roger Martin, author of Fixing the Game , to talk about the skewed incentives of CEO compensation. Every December, we collect our favorite management insights from each interviewee into this slideshow. Our contributors weighed in with their innovations (and innovators) to watch.

Video 15

Video Porter Charisma Customer Loyalty 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Too often, companies demand a laundry list of vague qualities, such as creativity and innovation, which fail to align with organizational needs. And it confuses young, promising managers about what skills and behaviors they need to develop to advance their careers. For example, when a U.S.

Leadership Development 8

Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Various federal incentives and regulations now require providers to share data with other providers and with patients or face significant financial penalties. Nevertheless, this vision of the future faces obstacles and uncertainties. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

Health Care 12

Health Care System Industry Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Stock-based incentive compensation aligns the self-interest of management with shareholders, and a performance-based pay system increases employee motivation. In my experience, these beliefs have led managers and boards to take actions that have had unintended, destructive consequences. The stock market is short-term-oriented.

CEO 15

CEO Short-term Long-term Restructuring 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. For example, embedded nurse managers of diabetic patients help coordinate care visits, regularly communicate directly with patients about meeting their health goals (such as weekly calls about lower HbA1c levels), and track metrics on diabetic populations across the entire organization.

Health Care 8

Health Care Compliance Licensing System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

To migrate to a new country also takes a high level of confidence in one’s ability to change and a high level of tolerance for uncertainty. Those companies that do not continually innovate and adapt along with advances in technology and changes in society eventually see their products or services fade in importance.

Globalization 8

Globalization Long-term Diversity CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. After the recession, for instance, one large lender made a practice of looking for “rehab” customers whose credit suffered in the downturn but who had since managed to achieve more stable incomes.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The struggle of the old management model is playing out before our very eyes. Hierarchical command-and-control is slow and operates less on incentives for solutions than on avoiding criticism or mistakes. Institutions and even nations will never meet these challenges alone, and especially not with yesterday’s management approaches.

Crisis 8

Crisis Crisis Management Uncertainty Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies. When you don’t need to win games to make money, what’s the incentive to win? Strategy execution Managing uncertainty Managing organizations'

Price 8

Price Team Sports Franchising 8