The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

” These patterns emerged from a number of experiments into interdisciplinary collaborative projects at a German university. Further on in the course of the project, it is helpful to explicitly agree on the way in which research results are to be integrated,” the researchers say.

Team 83

Team Tools Reference Project 83

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2015

Dale Neef is a technology advisor, and author of Digital Exhaust: What Everyone Should Know About Big Data, Digitization and Digitally Driven Innovation (FT Press).

CIO 50

CIO Technology CRM Competitive Advantage 50

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 12, 2012

When we understand the NOISE conditions, we can create a path towards the future that allows the company or team or project to flourish. For example ‘Communication between sales and production’ or ‘More knowledge of how to use our internal knowledge management system’. Flip Chart Paper. Lots of Post-it Notes. Group Size.

Strategic Planning 158

Strategic Planning SWOT Analysis Planning 158

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 19, 2020

This was combined with crowdsourced data from AcademicTree.org and the Mathematics Genealogy Project to understand the mentor/mentee relationships between scientists. The findings emerged after harvesting data on around 40,000 scientists, who between them have published 1.2

Tacit Knowledge 94

Tacit Knowledge Mentor Reputation Learning-by-Doing 94

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Improving innovation is one of the key competencies that companies often look for when replacing a CEO. Yet committees responsible for recommending candidates often grapple with finding the right person for the job when an innovation emperor like Steve Jobs isn’t available. And that’s false when you look at the facts. Find the truth.

Innovation 8

Innovation Organization Stage-Gate Productivity 8

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. These are just a few examples.

Team 52

Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 9, 2010

Steve Roesler presents Managing: You’re Still In It Together posted at All Things Workplace where Steve has a reminder for managers about how to be a successful. why is everyone smiling?

Leadership 170

Leadership McCarthy Blog Motivation 170

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

Sebell (mark@creativerealities.com), who are managing partners at Creative Realities, Inc. a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. We often ask executives to tell us about their biggest innovation failures. Clearly the company was painfully aware of these two failed projects. Simple answers don't count.

NPV 16

NPV ROI CFO Consensus 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

I’m also happy to note that this makes the case for open innovation even stronger. Open innovation projects (where organizations facing tricky problems invite outsiders to take a crack at solving them) always present cognitive challenges, of course. Collaboration Innovation Knowledge management'

Emotional Intelligence 10

Emotional Intelligence Proposal Innovation Knowledge Management 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

To spark innovation and ideation, employees often require information from a number of areas in real time. Whenever employees in their quest for innovation hit a roadblock, they would immediately turn to the KM and social-collaboration systems and post their queries. Innovation increased. They can become your virtual mentors.

Mentor 8

Mentor Agility System Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. Sara Vaerlander, Bobbi Thomason, Brandi Pearce, Heather Altman, and I observed what happened after the innovation practices were shared with the company’s Indian and Chinese counterparts. It made sense. Leaders from the U.S. Pamela Hinds.

Innovation 11

Innovation Altman System Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

They contribute technical expertise that an organization does not already have to a critical project or initiative. Mentor/coach: Contributes through others as a formal manager, an idea leader, a project owner, or an informal employee developer. Provide Channels for Sharing Knowledge. What are you reading?

Mentor 8

Mentor Agility Team Teamwork 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Innovation, a critical component to success for today’s companies, is about coming up with new ideas. That’s why companies go to great lengths to design offices that encourage spontaneous encounters , and why dense cities, where people can bump into one another on the street, are more innovative than sparser suburbs.

Conference 8

Conference Information Technology Knowledge Management Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Information Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In business, PVCs are used for knowledge management and exchange across multiple organizations, industries, and geographies. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Globalization 9

Globalization Health Care Information Technology Chief Technology Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Many of the things we need to know to be successful – to innovate, collaborate, solve problems, and identify new opportunities – aren’t learned simply through schooling, training, or personal experience. billion per year from employees failing to share knowledge effectively. As a manager for Bain & Co.

Company 8

Company Licensing Knowledge Management Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. That's a legitimate concern, but don't let a skunkworks social-media project get so far outside the mainstream that it can't make effective use of common platforms and other resources.

Media 9

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

I remember when we were starting a new project that we had to visit the nearby Oracle headquarters (ironically, now Sun's owner) to get our hands on a wide variety of competitive hardware, as Oracle had to test its software on all platforms and manufacturers.

Software 13

Software Wireless B2B Library 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Unfortunately, the project wasn't able to hit the former target. However, managers and focus groups liked a separate scented additive compound that came out of this research stream. Working in coordination with the knowledge management group, the corporation was able to re-purpose the scent for use in another business unit.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Content Innovation. At this point, many companies get to work and prepare detailed financial projections that show how many new sales they can achieve every year, what their proposed pricing is, what the year-on-year percentage increase will be. Execution Knowledge management' In some cases, they’re right.

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I decided not to become a dressmaker (big mistake given the success of Project Runway). Nonetheless, I see that the transparency of the factory floor needs to be applied to our modern knowledge work environment. At an individual level, we often think of it as hours spent on a task or project.

Market Segmentation 8

Market Segmentation Operations Project Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Innovate more effectively? Gartner estimates D&A projects falter 60% of the time. Some are too reliant on technology tool kits and rigid architectures, and not enough on creating the right environment to effectively leverage people with the right expertise to drive D&A projects forward. Increase market share?

Organization 8

Organization How To Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Today the function of finding information can be performed by crowd-sourcers; mappers of local sources; filters and curators of tweets, posts, and liveblogs; algorithm designers, data scientists, and knowledge managers. The functions of partnering, brokering, aggregating, curating etc.

Storytelling 16

Storytelling Disaggregation Supply Chain Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This Insight Center will tell stories about successful Big Data projects, of course. MIT professors Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee tell two such stories in the opening post, Big Data's Management Revolution. This is the first in a month-long series of expert-written posts.)

Webinar 8

Webinar Open-book Information Media 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them.

Organization 8

Organization Development Mentor Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

The first solution is problematic since competitive advantage in manufactured products often stems from design, and out-sourcing can endanger the retention of core capabilities and limit innovation. Let’s encourage schools to let students dirty their hands in projects and experiments.

Engineering 8

Engineering Competitive Advantage Knowledge Management Outsourcing 8