The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For instance, in 2013 the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued guidance on the development of the robotics industry, with this then supplemented by the Made in China 2025 program, which was launched in 2015. This set the goal of producing 100,000 industrial robots per year by 2020.

Automotive 78

Automotive Banking Industry Information Technology 78

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2017

If your business is associated with technology then you need to provide training on the latest technological developments – see programs relating to technology. Information technology skills are highly relevant to any business. Training in spotting and reporting hazards.

Training 51

Training Budgeting Bottom-up Long-term 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. The CIO’s response tends to be “reports” (61 percent of the population).

Magazine 55

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 55

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

What exactly are the issues that people have with Europe’s innovativeness? Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Let’s look at innovativeness. The US is usually seen as a hotbed of innovation.

Globalization 8

Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Where should the CAO report? In most cases today, the CAO doesn’t report directly to the CEO, but to another member of the C-suite. It is often easier to see where a CAO role should not report.

Company 8

Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

The persona of the next-generation CIO is evolving from Chief Infrastructure Officer through Chief Integration Officer and Chief Intelligence Officer to Chief Innovation Officer. For a CIO or other technology leader to make the move successfully from infrastructure to innovation, three key building blocks must be in place.

CIO 8

CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

What happens to innovation and segmentation when serious organizations are challenged to assimilate and integrate 10X, 100X or 1000X more information about customers, clients, prospects and leads? Customers Decision making Information & technology' Should management refine and dig deeper into existing 80/20 KPIs?

Due Diligence 11

Due Diligence KPI Loyalty Information Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

From reducing costs by improving quality, to enriching existing products and services by informationalizing them , to innovating by bringing big data and analytics to bear, data are showing themselves worthy across the board. You shouldn’t need a CDO to improve regulatory reporting. Information & technology Strategy'

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Long-term Information Technology Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

According to CIO Dieter Haban , whose team identified the idea and led product development, “the innovation combines telematics, mobility, central mission control, big data analytics, and a seamless process from the truck to the driver, fleet manager, and ultimately to an authorized service outlet.”. Take a look at your business.

Engineering 9

Engineering CIO Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. According to a recent Rock Health report , venture funding of digital health companies exceeded $1.9 Entrepreneurship Health Innovation' billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Funding Entrepreneur Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

I am pleased to report that this turns out not to be a difficult question to answer or challenge to meet. Indeed, the rich and controversial history of medical self-experimentation confirms an important bias every organization should know: Innovators are happy to use themselves as guinea pigs and lab rats for their ideas.

Ethics 8

Ethics Zimbardo Explicit Knowledge Kahneman 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It makes possible the routine collection of patient-reported data using standardized screening instruments, incorporates redesigned patient and care team workflows to allow consistent monitoring, and embeds clinical-decision-support systems for providing individualized feedback and action at the point of care. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

But it is simply unrealistic for a doctor — or any human being — to stay abreast of that much information, much less be able to recall accurately the relevant information on demand. As the Institute of Medicine highlighted in a 2012 report , this gap in knowledge contributes to variation in care and suboptimal outcome.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Peer Review Information 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. Information & technology Leadership Strategy' Today, though, many of those characteristics are in flux much of the time.

Strategy 10

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Innovative products like fitness trackers and Google’s Nest thermostats are demonstrating the potential for both consumers and enterprises. This article is drawn from a series of Goldman Sachs research reports on the Internet of Things that has included contributions from more than 20 analysts across multiple sectors.

Early Adopters 10

Early Adopters Information Technology Long-term Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff. billion people worldwide will use mobile health apps, according to a Deloitte report, 2016 Global Health Care Outlook: Battling Costs While Improving Care. By 2018, as many as 1.7

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Power GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2015

” So let’s focus on the present, and the innovations in communications technology that managers have been most eager to embrace, particularly e-mail. It has always been true that the people who report to a manager are few and fixed compared with that manager’s network of external contacts.

Management 8

Management Technology Information Technology Drucker 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

Throughout technology’s history, that vanguard has been the part of an organization willing to invest for one or both of two reasons: it is having significant trouble with the status quo or it has a compelling vision that things could be done in a new, better way. Starving IT of budget takes a heavy toll on innovation.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

A revolution in information technology has transformed businesses around the globe over the past two decades. More recently, companies have discovered that technology-enabled data is an underappreciated but highly valuable asset. And innovative technology soon will extend its reach without increasing its size.

Education 8

Education Technology Information Technology Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

As importantly, an effective cybersecurity framework has to overcome barriers to continued economic growth — creating an environment that protects and nurtures innovation. Take, for example, the energy industry: According to one recent Congressional report , the computer systems that drive the U.S.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

The White House recently published two new reports on Big Data and privacy ( here and here ). The reports outline six policy recommendations, including new legislation to define consumer rights regarding how online activity data is gathered and used. Entrepreneurship Government Information & technology'

Engineering 8

Engineering Information Technology Information Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

A 2015 Nielsen Global Sustainability Report found that 43% of consumers say that a company’s commitment to social value “very heavily” or “heavily” influenced their purchase decisions. But many of today’s consumers want more. Insight Center. How Digital Business Models Are Changing. Sponsored by Accenture.

Technology 8

Technology Price eBook Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The ER physician was about to hospitalize the patient when Mr. Johnson reported being a veteran and was promptly transferred to the Boston VA.

Health Care 14

Health Care Film Incentives Information Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reported that companies waste 30% of the energy they consume. You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., There are all kinds of new energy providers (especially in U.S.

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

MD Anderson Cancer Center established its version of a value management office, the Institute for Cancer Care Innovation (ICCI) in 2008 with Thomas Feeley, a senior anesthesiologist and a coauthor of this article, as its head. One example is in the area of patient-reported outcomes. Integrate quality data into care delivery.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

The most important insight has been that it is far more useful to think about the activities that can be automated rather than entire occupations—handing over discrete bits to machines, like pulling out the most useful data from an analyst’s report, generating a report on the latest sales figures, or moving products around a warehouse.

Osborne 8

Osborne Technology McKinsey Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Until the Internet, both technologies boasted nearly 100% penetration. Such is the nature of disruptive innovation, whose impact across industries continues to accelerate thanks to exponential improvements in digital and other core technologies. Information & technology Innovation Internet'

Technology 8

Technology Information Technology Wireless Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

The coverage suggested that the man who gave us QE2 held shockingly anachronistic beliefs about basic research's role in promoting innovation. I thought this would be a wonderful gateway to post on how poorly economists and economics understand and measure innovation in global markets. Bernanke's quotes were truisms and clichés.

Due Diligence 12

Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And unfortunately, it's also one of the most in need of radical institutional innovation. It's built on a set of institutions crafted in and for the industrial age — like annual and quarterly reports. Four times a year, boardrooms publish updates to their accounts, and once a year, a hefty report explaining and discussing them.

GDP 15

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

In the spirit of the "open source" and "open innovation" movements, that gives them greater power and influence. Who doesn't look to Amazon and/or Netflix for behaviorally-informed suggestions on what to buy, watch or read? It's easier to see what's going on and why. Many eyes, shallow bugs.

Career 15

Career Company Human Capital Education 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The team also sought the input of various departments, including human resources, legal and compliance, and ethics consultants, and the approvals of key internal committees including clinical practice, location services, and information technology. Integrate the system into the workflow.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2013

Innovative digital marketing approaches in social media, CRM, and other areas dominate the discussion. Nevertheless, analog spending still rules, as confirmed by Gartner''s 2013 digital marketing spending report. Information & technology Marketing Social media' Shouldn''t CMOs and all marketers be shocked by this?

CIO 8

CIO Marketing CRM Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

” Reports lamenting a shortage of STEM talent have only stoked the debate over Wall Street “brain drain.” That’s 25% more grads than went into computer and information technology, the most popular industry in the science and engineering category. of MIT graduates taking jobs in finance after graduation.

Engineering 8

Engineering Finance Bottom-up Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Gene Morphis, former CFO of CVS and David's Bridal suggests: "There is an interesting intersection between risk management and innovation that emerges in the CMO-CIO interface." It's up to the CEO to ensure that marketing and IT are on the same page in terms of both innovation goals and risk management.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8