The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

These often post-industrial towns have fallen from their heyday, and citizens have fought back against a globalized system they feel is not serving them well. The Zen incubator scheme requires staff to form a team of between 2 and 5 colleagues, each with at least 1 year of employment at the company. Rural innovation.

Incubator 49

Incubator Diversity Kaplan Objective 49

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment.

Process 9

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In the creative economy, innovation is more important than ever. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance. Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. We all get it: innovation is the lifeblood of every organization.

Innovation 15

Innovation Process Competitive Advantage McKinsey 15

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. The asymmetrical aspects of America’s security, as well as the growing threat of flashpoints with China and Russia , require constant innovation at a quick pace.

Innovation 132

Innovation Software Industry Politics 132

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

When we envision an emerging market, we think of a rapidly growing country with small purchasing power, little infrastructure, and diminishing natural resources. These three aspects of emerging markets require innovations that can subsequently be taken global — a phenomenon known as " reverse innovation."

Innovation 14

Innovation Health Care Incubator Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. USA Today ran an excellent — if over-flattering — profile of YouTube's splashy but serious effort to provide a high-tech incubator for content and channel creators.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. The industry has unquestionably helped to support the formation of world-changing companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, and countless others.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. The industry has unquestionably helped to support the formation of world-changing companies such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Facebook, and countless others.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Located on the east side of the NoMa train tracks, Union Market began as a working food production and distribution center in the 1930s.

Real Estate 11

Real Estate Development Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

companies produce the batteries required for price-competitive electric vehicles that can truly shift the market? Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. The Chinese now account for 80% of this market and will soon take it global.

Incubator 13

Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

However, in recent years a parallel explosion of digital tools and services has taken place in the manufacturing realm as well, drawing in computer-assisted design and 3D printing equipment to open-source operating systems, the cloud, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The incubation system, the ecosystem and the environment are important, but sometimes, it can be a very simple "latent factor" ingenuity that redesigns not just a company, but an entire industry. That pursuit of technology innovation continues to change the world. You can't resell that CD, legally.

Licensing 15

Licensing Software Automotive Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

“The medieval guild system was a primitive networking exercise.” “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator,” stated Francis Bacon. The major innovation lay in an extraordinary machine already in use in Lucca, about 150 kilometers southwest of Bologna.

Education 8

Education Pharmaceuticals Innovation Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. CEOs remain reluctant to invite CIOs to the executive table, insisting that IT is a cost center, not the innovation incubator it could be.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. We know that great ideas that drive breakthroughs in productivity come from human beings with the time, talent and energy to innovate. Yet, only one in eight employees are inspired.

Human Capital 11

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Porter Team Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Union Pacific, the leading railroad company has a market capitalization of over $80 billion, about 60% more than Ford or GM. Disney, the leading movie studio company, has a market capitalization of about $150 billion. It doesn’t impress anybody with brilliant market forecasting or slick branding.

Company 8

Company Levitt Succession Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Similar fates often befall innovations within large companies. You must do that in the face of vast forces arrayed against innovation within an established organization, which include inertia, resistance to change, fear of failure, financial disincentives, and the tendency of people and organizations to favor what has worked in the past.

Cialdini 9

Cialdini Resistance Innovation Media 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

CEO 11

CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Making big bets on emerging technologies and uncertain markets is never a straightforward proposition; doing so in direct competition with much bigger and more sustained Chinese bets is downright suicidal. How can the United States achieve a better record in the future? The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

Disruptive Innovation 9

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. At first, Opus 12 targeted the largest addressable market it could find: ethanol, an additive of gasoline.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Microfinance Market Segmentation Incubator 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2017

In our research we have found that leadership has a 10 to 15% impact on financial performance and a 25 to 30% impact on market valuation. The LCP is the curator of this group and may even specify which tools and systems portfolio companies should use. LCPs also participate in divestiture negotiations.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Leadership Early Adopters Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Or, if investors are enthusiastic about a new business that Liberty is incubating inside one of its existing companies, he can spin out that business as a “newco” with its own stock. Conversely, if Malone thinks that the market has undervalued one of the companies, Liberty can buy back its shares.

Examples 8

Examples Incubator Restructuring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. Gregor and BMW faced a crucial question: “How can the BMW Group, as a company, co-innovate with startups?”

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We had it all — strong capital markets, rich natural resources, unparalleled higher education, and geographic separation from two devastating wars. Although well-intentioned, these programs often have the unintended consequences of benefiting the wrong businesses, favoring sub-optimal technology, and creating market distortion.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Licensing Telecommunications Incubator 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

Entrepreneur 14

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

To help address it, ADO has, with the help of some innovative business firms, leapt to the forefront with a new approach to sourcing cybersecurity talent: “Dandelion programs.” ” In other words, this is not about compromise or settling for whatever talent you can get in an overly competitive labor market.

Organization 8

Organization Analysis Incubator Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

and Canada with extensive experience in emerging markets persevered to take a closer look. We almost immediately learned that Iran is an astoundingly lovely place, with very little of the deep poverty one sees intertwined into the societies of most emerging markets. We didn’t see a fraction of the religious tension we expected.

Travel 8

Travel Incubator Bottom-up Education 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

These “buy, fix, manage, and then sell” PE firms were essentially umbrella holding companies while the acquired firms would become better managed before returning to the public market. KKR, BlackRock, Blackstone) became publicly traded holding companies exploiting capital markets to expand their reach.

LBO 8

LBO Restructuring Real Estate Leveraged Buy-out 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

IBM Watson’s progress in the health care market is a significant example and driver of the transformation, providing big lessons to IBM and to every large company that must disrupt its own business — or watch competitors do it first. Record so far: IBM has a long history of incubating new businesses (e.g.,

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. Bill and his team set out to develop a system that could bring all GE machines onto one efficient cloud -connected platform. ” Hiring for Growth.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

That’s largely the ethos behind accelerators such as Entrepreneur First, who back exceptional people and help them turn their intellect into marketable products and successful businesses. ” The Kickstarter experiment was then followed up with an analysis of the startups participating in the Technion incubator program in Israel.

Skills 131

Skills Team Incubator Brainstorming 131

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Think about the repercussions of investing this money in incarceration instead in our education or healthcare systems. And relatedly, how do we recognize a black-market innovator who may have all the talent of a Richard Branson or a Jay-Z, but lacks the opportunities for a leg-up in the formal economy?

Business Incubator 8

Business Incubator Incubator Charisma Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy. Here, policy has created a distorted system, in which it is rational to want to stay small and suppress the drive for growth. have spread like wildfire. Taxes per se do not hinder entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8