The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

And certain production environments provide richer data due to the processes they use.”. The results were then cross-referenced with data, including production inputs and outputs for the firm. The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. Strong returns.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

Learning how the most innovative leaders step back and see the big picture, assess the underlying issue, and then approach the solutions in a systemic, realistic way helped me see things in an entirely new way. Unorthodox thinking is required throughout the innovation process.”. That finding has stuck with me.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 11, 2020

No matter the sector, buying, trading, and selling goes on every day with new companies and products emerging all the time. The truth is that there will always be room for more online businesses if there are entrepreneurs coming up with alternative business concepts and innovative services/products. Cyber Security.

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Once upon a time, before the era of big data analytics, corporations had similarly routine business growth issues and threats: i.e.: after years of being the market leader in a specific product category, they quickly begin to lose market share, they wanted to introduce their product into a new market. Product Intelligence: What Is It?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. In the meantime, the firm and supply chain invest heavily in the product or service offering, in hopes of luring customers.

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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.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. He also teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity courses. Schroeder calls this The LeanModel Framework.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2019

Nevertheless, as is the case with all products, there are pros and cons and these qualities need to be assessed. Nevertheless, with the advancements in technology and design, this is a notion that is largely no longer shared. After all, you need to ensure that the products you receive are perfect for your business.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

In commercial, industrial, and government applications—in the real-world usage of machine learning to predict—it's known as: Predictive analytics —Technology that learns from experience (data) to predict the future behavior of individuals in order to drive better decisions. Applied Prediction. The system grades as accurately as human graders.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. He also teaches entrepreneurship, innovation, and creativity courses. Schroeder calls this The Lean Model Framework.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Killing products isn’t easy. Engineers and managers toil for months, often years, to conceive, develop, and launch new products. In our five-year study of global handset makers , we found that most firms pull products when they turn out to be obvious disasters such as the Note 7. Know the big picture.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

One cliffhanger of last night's earnings announcement from Apple is whether the company can keep making intuitively brilliant product tweaks without Steve Jobs. In organizations, reframers similarly help the business see better ways to deal with complex problems or opportunities for innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

Over the last two years, much has been written about patent trolls, firms that make their money asserting patents against other companies, but do not make a useful product of their own. The White House and the Congressional Research Service both cited many research studies suggesting that patent litigation harms innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Need drives innovation, so this week we want to highlight some of what is happening in the new markets in water. For example, GE's investment in water technologies is well known, and its leadership stems from its ecomagination portfolio of products.

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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. For example, "this product was part of a natural evolution."

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 16, 2021

Babies, Tesla’s newest innovation , or the latest iPhone. Assess your application process using both mobile and desktop technology. Avoid catchy phrases for sample job posting ads on sites such as LinkedIn or Indeed. Internal Job Posting Announcement Sample. They understand your industry and your products.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

Wearable technologies, implanted devices, and smartphone apps allow continuous monitoring and create a ubiquitous, 24/7, digitized picture of your health that can be accessed and analyzed in real-time, anywhere. Technological advances based on the Bartender model will also push the boundaries of healthcare into new retail frontiers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

It was a problem regardless of brand, formula, or product — until Atis set her sights on solving it once and for all. Fueled by passion and purpose, they produced and tested foundation samples on their own time. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

trillion per year; and (3) store-based retailers could profitably transition to a digital world by growing e-commerce sales cautiously enough to avoid diluting earnings and cannibalizing higher-margin store sales, while retreating to the most profitable stores and product categories that would be hardest for Amazon to attack.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

With today's breathless enthusiasm for innovation, it's hard to remember when, as far as the management literature was concerned, innovation was something that guys in white coats who worked for companies like DuPont did in the R&D lab. Innovation, or venturing, was slowly working its way onto the leadership agenda.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.”

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Recent research has shown that “high purpose” companies — those who have a point of view on social issues, innovate with purpose, and have a commitment to society — outperform “low purpose companies.”

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

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. Headhunters Reveal What Candidates Want.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

Understand your customer's buying cycle better, and you can target your mailings and product offerings more effectively. It a powerful tool for identifying innovations, especially with the opportunities for data gathering afforded by smart technologies and social media.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

From early on, Google employees were encouraged to spend a significant portion of their time on interesting side projects, with the idea that some of these projects would become new products. How Google innovates. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Since its HBR debut in 1995, the concept of disruptive innovation —the process by which a smaller company with limited resources is able to launch a product or service that displaces established competitors—has been extensively incorporated into startup vernacular. employees), and FTE start and end dates (average of 2.5

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Offshoring some portion of a firm’s innovation may be beneficial, the authors argue, but beyond a certain point it becomes counterproductive. With nations like China ramping up their innovative capacities, why stop at offshoring manufacturing or customer support?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

For instance, in our recent Babson Executive Education sample of 445 companies, more than three-quarters (77%) admit that breaking convention is not their strong suit. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Most aren't that good. Rehabilitate a misfit.

Supply Chain 13

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2016

Economic activities centered around online platforms, where independent sellers can offer goods or services to customers, are attracting significant consumer attention and spending, according to new data from the National Technology Readiness Survey* (NTRS), which has tracked technology behaviors and beliefs in the U.S. since 1999.

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Early Adopters Technology Survey Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Managers and business analysts will often be called upon to conduct data-driven experiments, to interpret data, and to create innovative data-based products and services. Procter & Gamble's CEO, Bob McDonald, is convinced that "data modeling, simulation, and other digital tools are reshaping how we innovate."

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Skills Pharmaceuticals Sample Business Intelligence 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Today, companies usually envision singular product offerings for the Internet of Things, resulting in store shelves with things that do not connect very well to other things once the consumer gets them home. Each product functions perfectly well on its own, but doesn’t connect to other things in ways we might expect.

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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?”

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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.

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Power Mass Marketing Focus Group Brand 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The sad but simple truth was that Cisco — arguably the world's premier internet network technology company — didn't deliver a Wi-Fi-enabled device.

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Wireless Management Telecommunications Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. Sure, there are thousands of case studies and small sample studies, but it’s hard to generalize from them, since the companies they focus on are seldom representative of the broader economy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Experimentation-oriented organizations, one-quarter of our survey sample, are more than 4 times as likely to have achieved greater than 20% growth over the past year compared to others in the sample. Is there a big idea in the innovation pipeline that never seems to go anywhere? Begin by asking a few tough questions.

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