The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

. “In addition to business model innovation, practitioners stress the importance of social capital for entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur 75

Entrepreneur Human Capital Skills Social Capital 75

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The true structure of the organization is not what is written down on an organizational chart, but what actually occurs as people connect through roles, influence and decision-making processes. The connection and coordination necessary to get things done happens because of productive personal relationships based upon trust and reciprocity.

Social Capital 95

Social Capital CIO Knowledge Management Information Technology 95

Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

Because the key to innovation isn’t processes, stage gates, weird exercises, or competitions. It’s not processes, it’s people. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption. The key to innovation has been and always will be People. Blue Lobsters. Not anymore.

Innovation 91

Innovation Stage-Gate Blanchard Social Capital 91

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 10, 2017

In cultures where group dynamics are paramount, the process of building networks tends to be much more elaborate, well defined, and long term. In many parts of China –– the art of networking in business revolves around a system of building social capital known as guanxi (gwan-shee).

Long-term 100

Long-term Short-term Social Capital Bureaucracy 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

1] He also worked hard to build his social capital with other talented inventors, but also with wealthy families and financiers like J. Human capital: who you are as a leader of innovation . Social capital: who you know with key expertise and resources. Morgan, the Vanderbilts, and the Rockefellers.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Ultimately, the key to success is authenticity.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Health Care Cooper Storytelling 8

HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

It is a tough time as they bank on social capital and how to maintain cohesion without the benefit of informal coffee, lunch or smoke breaks. This is a key moment for business leaders to respond promptly and with urgency. Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually.

McKinsey 134

McKinsey Aggregate Demand Industry Crisis 134

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 4, 2019

Recent research from Stanford Graduate School of Business set out to identify some key characteristics of ‘social brokers’, and in the process spotted vartious kinds of brokering in the workplace. The key characteristic of brokering behavior is their ability to fundamentally change the social networks of other people.

Social Capital 76

Social Capital Influence Bond Cooper 76

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2020

Classes range from using social media to processing payments for their new website. “These findings are consistent with theories in which key entrepreneurial resources (such as human capital, financial capital, and social capital) accumulate with age, ” the researchers explain.

Entrepreneur 86

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Library Proposal 86

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Today’s innovators know that services, business models, collaboration, relationships, networks, knowledge, and social capital are the keys to the future. Innovation is a continuous process of invention and reinvention. The other domain is leadership. Provide an innovation vision – Create a vision for innovation.

Innovation 114

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Today’s innovators know that services, business models, collaboration, relationships, networks, knowledge, and social capital are the keys to the future. Innovation is a continuous process of invention and reinvention. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

Innovation 113

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

And, during the process of creating breakthroughs, surprises inevitably crop up along the way. But it does outline the key phases and dynamics that characterize the process of leading business breakthroughs. Baker: Achieving Success Through Social Capital: Tapping Hidden Resources in Your Personal and Business Networks.

Innovation 126

Innovation Kaplan Diversity Open-book 126

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2011

In short, trust is a form of social capital that enhances performance between individuals, within and among groups, and in larger collectives, like organizations, institutions and nations. The process of building trust within a team can be uncomfortable for some members, yet it often yields surprising and unexpected benefits. .

Team 129

Team Team Building Cooper Bottom-up 129

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We brought in web experts to install new firewalls and deterrents to prevent his current URL from being redirected to malicious sites, acquired numerous new URLs to redirect all entries to a new website for him and began the process of removing images from search results.

Reputation 121

Reputation Brand How To Media 121

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. Speed up corporate deal making processes. They worked with little coordination and control from HQ.

Innovation 9

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

With up to 20% of staff turnover occurring within the first 45 days of employment, a standardized onboarding process is essential. ” There’s almost always a litany of cryptic acronyms that company’s use for key processes or roles — decoding them can be one of the most distressing challenges for new hires.

Short-term 14

Short-term Social Capital Report Long-term 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2016

In doing this, I derived a way to describe how companies mature by seeing the process as a symbolic clock of corporate competitiveness. The essentials of efficient manufacturing include improving the automation of the manufacturing process, and finding outsourcers who can reduce production costs.

Company 50

Company Globalization Outsourcing Transportation 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

At Level 4, you're helping customers build their social capital — that is, helping them to build and expand valuable support groups and communities. Helping customers build social capital may seem far removed from the concerns a competitive business should occupy itself with. Give them a say.

Social Capital 9

Social Capital Review Software Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

A talented programmer, he accepted one of a number of job offers, turning down Google in the process, and is already hard at work. To me this means that he has, in essence, made the calculation that the use of social networks will replace the “badges” that my generation valued to determine reputation.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Credit Rating Reputation Efficiency 8

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

And since competition is a matter of relations, the company’s ability to structure and control the process of securing productive relationships will determine success in the marketplace. The best meetings happen by accident, in the hallway or parking lot.

Brainstorming 99

Brainstorming Groupthink Engineering Creativity 99

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. I then realized that the educational process happens not just inside the school walls, but in three different places: school, family and community.

Social Capital 13

Social Capital Education Human Capital Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

In virtually every case we hear something like this: “I have an idea for a new product (or process, system, program, etc.). It is quite different for entrepreneurs inside where the most significant investment (and risk) criteria they consider is their social standing and relationship capital within the organization.

Entrepreneur 19

Entrepreneur Organization Competitive Advantage Social Capital 19

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Wal-Mart announced that it would pay out up to $1,000 per employee, depending on seniority, and that it would begin a process of boosting its minimum wage to $11 per hour. ” As one senior executive explained to me, “The focus of most companies is to improve their financial capital. Our focus is on social capital.”

Definition 8

Definition Company Succession Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

Dale Hedrick, President of Hedrick Brothers Construction in south Florida, requires new employees to sign the company's social contract (PDF). When crafting its social contract, a team can mitigate these types of harmful behaviors by simply including phrases such as, "Don't speak negatively about other employees in their absence.".

Teamwork 14

Teamwork Social Capital Construction Cooper 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

The digitization of social brings real-world trust and social capital online. Today, a decade after the launch of the iPod, consumers are starting to reach the same realization. Our mobile devices are powerful computers connected to high-speed networks.

Disaggregation 9

Disaggregation Hammer Mass Marketing Gordon 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Focus on the process rather than the personalities. This will ensure that the marketing perspective is represented and will keep my team in the loop of upcoming priorities so we can plan accordingly and meet critical deadlines. ” Stay neutral.

How To 8

How To Social Capital Maturity Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2013

In the process we learn from these external innovators, extend our network, and engender a lot of goodwill. Think of the resources you have in abundance and how you might "socialize" them to build your organization''s social capital and enrich the flow of ideas.

Mission Statement 9

Mission Statement Class Learning-by-Doing Pharmaceuticals 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

And, even if there is discussion, how often is it tied directly to the pricing process? Integrate the idea of social capital in the monetization approach. But how often does the seller get involved and create a true dialog? Reputation.

Price 10

Price Content Reputation Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

” Because she performed so well on the project, she gained social capital with her supervisor. It’s not a formal program but it’s part of the review process. That partly had to do with the fact that your clients look like you and it’s easier to build that relationship.”

Hotels 15

Hotels Project Class Mentor 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

If, as William James noted, “truth is something that happens to an idea”, entrepreneurship is the process by which creative ideas become useful innovations. Social capital , which they rely on throughout the entrepreneurial process.

Innovation 8

Innovation Succession Creativity Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

PMs have to have a deep understanding of how the organization operates and must build social capital to influence the success of their product – from obtaining budget and staffing to securing a top engineer to work on their product.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

As a sell-side analyst, I worked closely with a number of clients, becoming quite fond of them in the process. This makes it all the more important that we know beforehand what the trade will be; asking someone to do something for you just-to-be-nice can deplete your social capital quickly. Contrast this with instrumental ties.

Christensen 15

Christensen Project Social Capital Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

What kind of a forum or process could we create that would allow individuals to freely share and discuss ethical dilemmas? Capitalism cannot operate in a social vacuum, and profits and shareholder return can no longer be the only measures of a company's value-add.

Short-term 15

Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy. So how does blockchain work?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Although Contect had launched as a specialist in small but steady installation jobs with high margins and low risk, it was now a full-service construction company that did design, construction, lighting, ventilation, water, waste processing, and IT infrastructure for much bigger, more complex projects.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Scotland has the intrinsic qualities of successful small advanced economies: an educated population, social capital, and competitive firms. What does matter is the ability to set economic policy in a way that reflects local context. The UK’s future in the EU is uncertain.

Consensus 10

Consensus Globalization Politics Policies 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Leaders need others' confidence and support and get it when their experience is perceived as relevant and, better yet, when key relationships provide them with social capital. Quite subconsciously, people seek to justify the efforts they have undertaken, and that instigates a process of commitment.

Tacit Knowledge 12

Tacit Knowledge Festinger Social Capital Education 12