The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2022

A common refrain is that the algorithms used to power these networks produce echo chambers that deliver us a very narrow range of content. A new game from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology aims to help us become more aware of echo chambers and hopefully avoid falling into them. ” Raising awareness.

Self-aware 110

Self-aware Diversity Survey Sample 110

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 17, 2024

” This is just a tiny sample of environmental doomcasting and fearmongering. ” Negativity and fear-mongering are extraordinarily powerful. New Age Religion: Climate Fundamentalists Scare and Despair Politicians, advertisers, and media exploit the motivating power of anxiety, worry, and insecurity very effectively.

Crisis 52

Crisis Media Review Survey 52

Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

Beyond benefiting you and I as individuals, prediction bestows power upon an organization: big business secures a competitive stronghold by predicting the future destiny and value of individual assets. Will the customer respond if mailed a brochure? Prediction in Big Business — The Destiny of Assets. There's another angle. Applied Prediction.

Learning-by-Doing 279

Learning-by-Doing Insurance Wireless Discount 279

Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers Published by Michael Lee Stallard on October 9, 2010 04:47 pm under employee engagement Check out this sampling of posts from top leadership bloggers as part of a leadership carnival hosted by Mary Jo Asmus.

Leadership 244

Leadership McCarthy Gilbert Sample 244

Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2015

Readers will quickly become adept at : Leveraging all the lean resources around them , from their own skill set, local community, and personal circles to professional networks, online resources, and technology tools. He also teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity courses. Do more than forgive: forget.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Leadership Advice Entrepreneur 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Design thinking has been recognized as an important means to innovate in the context of developing new products and technologies. The sample vignettes below, however, show how individuals apply design thinking to a very broad range of problems at varying scales. Implementing a strategic technology plan.

Creativity 58

Creativity Strategic Planning Construction Politics 58

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation? This work builds on earlier research into CEO qualifications.).

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 1, 2014

In the past week or so, there’s been much discussion and debate over the merits of disruption and with it, how we view and understand what it means to innovate. Innovation is vital to the successful completion of these unmanned missions to Mars. It was innovative and seemingly crazy. Many thought it could never work.

Innovation 255

Innovation Engineering Learning-by-Doing Creativity 255

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Gen Z is already responsible for $29 billion in purchasing power and more than $333 billion in influence. For example, high purpose companies experience: 14.1%

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Generation Z , which includes anyone born between 1997 and 2012, influences your business more each day as the generation enters the workforce and its purchasing power increases. Gen Z is already responsible for $29 billion in purchasing power and more than $333 billion in influence. Customer Need As a Catalyst For Purpose.

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

We all know innovation has its own language conventions, rich with revolutions , evolutions , ecosystems , and more. Innovators, after all, are trying to communicate the promise of something that may not exist yet, and sometimes that requires some optimistic adornment. We wanted to learn more.

Innovation 15

Innovation Construction Engineering Self-aware 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2012

So many factors — not the least of which include testing a larger, more diverse sample of people — contribute to the accuracy of any study. The same holds true for consumer focus groups, innovation contests, and more recently the use of social media sites to solicit feedback from consumers. Of course not.

Power 14

Power Mass Marketing Focus Group Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Fueled by passion and purpose, they produced and tested foundation samples on their own time. Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

A new form of polling called non-probability sampling — opt-in surveys on the internet, prediction markets, and even polls on gaming systems — has emerged as an improvement, and a viable replacement. We pulled the sample from a non-representative group of users who had opted-in to our polls. Technology'

Sample 8

Sample Cost Advertising Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

It is, to use the language of innovation theorists and practitioners, being unbundled. Evaluative information like work samples, personal representations, peer and manager reviews, shared content, and scores and badges are creating new signals of aptitude and different types of credentials.

Education 12

Education Disruptive Innovation Software Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

We couldn’t agree more about the need for innovation. The response to Ebola has largely relied on public health strategies established over a century ago and technology that has been around for decades. The unique character, scale, and persistence of this epidemic demand innovation in how Ebola is tackled.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter warned that such biological artillery might come to rival the destructive power of nuclear arms. The low cost and do-it-yourself accessibility of genomic technologies makes it possible for such weapons to be deployed by almost any aggressor. Several current and emerging technology platforms (e.g.

Engineering 8

Engineering Decentralization Agility Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Gimmy’s task was clear but highly demanding: to reimagine the way BMW innovates. At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

A report (PDF) from Gensler Architecture found that only half of the US workforce feels that their environment empowers them to innovate, while another white paper (PDF) from office design specialist Steelcase found that 70% of workers today waste up to 15 minutes just looking for a space to meet and 24% waste up to half an hour.

Teamwork 15

Teamwork White Paper Brainstorming Sample 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. The first step to innovating like Google, they argue, is patience. Another look at part of Google’s innovation strategy comes from a 2013 piece on DARPA , the government research agency.

IPO 14

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Data science can enable wholly new and innovative capabilities that can completely differentiate a company. But those innovative capabilities aren’t so much designed or envisioned as they are discovered and revealed through curiosity-driven tinkering by the data scientists. million clients in the U.S. and plans to enter the U.K.

Learning-by-Doing 9

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Metrics Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

It a powerful tool for identifying innovations, especially with the opportunities for data gathering afforded by smart technologies and social media. The great advantage for organizations here is that they can draw on potentially very large samples, which makes analysis of the data very robust.

Marketing 15

Marketing Restructuring Brand Analysis 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2018

Sampling bias may produce models trained on data that is not fully representative of future cases. Performance bias can exaggerate perceptions of predictive power, generalizability, and performance homogeneity across data segments. When sampling, balance representativeness with critical mass constraints.

Sample 9

Sample Project Self-aware Training 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Miniature wells patterned onto the paper contain chemicals that react with samples of blood, urine, saliva, or sweat, which causes the paper to display a reading with a change of color. The technology is revolutionary because the paper tests can be manufactured for only a few cents and can deliver test results instantaneously.

Marketing 12

Marketing Chemicals Resistance Guidelines 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

However, it is imperative we question the confidence placed in the new generation of quantitative models, innovations which could, as William Dudley warned, “lead to excess and put the [financial] system at risk.” Two areas are of particular concern. We were taming financial uncertainty, or so we believed. voters, approximately 2.3

Crisis 9

Crisis Uncertainty Finance Price 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. 300,000 locations, approximately 20 machines per location, 2-300 data points per machine, and 45 millisecond sensor sample rates).

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2013

More than ever, customer experiences are based on a foundation of technology and delivered to a digitally-savvy population. Each generation of technologies raises customer expectations beyond the last. But emerging technologies will also enable customer experiences that are far superior to those of today.

CIO 8

CIO Technology Media Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

” In a recent Strategic Management Journal study with a sample of more than 6,000 companies, Wasserman discovered that founders who keep a powerful central role in their startup as it grows — controlling the board or the CEO position, or both — can harm the firm’s prospects, reducing pre-money valuation by up to 22%.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Sample IPO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The single-serve experience is a powerful intersection of great business (higher margins, incremental sales) and increased consumer benefits (more choice, more customization). Technology enables unbundling that creates the single-serve revolution. Emilion, in the Bordeaux region of France, to sample wines.

Retail 8

Retail Technology Price Sample 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2013

Danone's excellent financial performance earned him a spot in the top 10% of this year's sample (a truly amazing achievement for a consumer goods company); at the same time, the company received extremely high ratings from MSCI. One example: Franck Riboud of Danone, a French multinational with $27 billion in annual sales.

Company 9

Company Long-term Porter CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. 300,000 locations, approximately 20 machines per location, 2-300 data points per machine, and 45 millisecond sensor sample rates).

Banking 8

Banking Hypercompetition Constraint Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Recently, however, leading physical stores have discovered that they can also harness the power of powerful digital marketing tools and integrate them directly into the in-store experience. One of the most exciting areas of development is the marrying of mobile apps, location sensing technologies (e.g.,

Retail 8

Retail Customer Intimacy Loyalty Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. Zeitgeist, German for "spirit of the time," is the complex interplay of economic, technological, political, and social forces that can determine which ideas will flop and which will fly in a particular moment. Tune Your Idea to the Zeitgeist.

Prahalad 15

Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Connect as many strengths and resources as possible, for innovation lives in fresh combinations. Good useful original gifts are best if they can contain a mini-version of your product or service for sampling.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

To-do lists, in fact, will likely be the internet’s next multibillion dollar global innovation. innovators succeed through blending algorithmic alchemy and data-driven decisions into user experiences inviting exploration, sampling and outright purchase. Managing yourself Social media Technology' Those Web 2.0

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning-by-Doing Sample Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

Yes, there could be thousands of these nexus suppliers, but we now have the computing power to identify how critical each is. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate. Currently, generating a map of supply networks is a daunting task.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Operations Automotive Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

there is something uniquely powerful about rivalry that differentiates it from others forms of competition and relationships. Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking.

Participative 9

Participative Rogers Influence Survey 9