The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. The study found that the share of entrepreneurs fell by around half between 1985 and 2014, with just 4% of households containing an entrepreneur by the end of the study period. of physicians operating as independent owners in 2019, versus 48.5%

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Entrepreneur Long-term Cost of Capital Engineering 109

Strategy Driven

MARCH 19, 2014

Going paperless is a great way to streamline office operations – and help save the planet by reducing paper. You just finished reading Three Ways Document Management Software Can Streamline Operations ! Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Document Software Operations Management 64

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

PHILADELPHIA, April 1, 2014 -- Rapid Learning Institute (RLI) pulled back the curtain today on its latest innovation in workplace education: the T.O.I.L.E.T. In 2014, the T.O.I.L.E.T. Applications must be received by end of business on April 1, 2014. Training System™ takes the concept to a new level. The T.O.I.L.E.T.

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Training System Compliance Human Resources 225

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since Frey and Osborne’s hugely popular paper in 2014, the traditional narrative surrounding automation at work has been that millions of jobs will be lost to the march of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence. And those are the kinds of things that managers tend to do.”. Workforce composition.

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Osborne Competitive Advantage Technology Skills 124

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 28, 2023

The study shows that ahead of each REF deadline in the analyzed period (1996, 2001, 2008, and 2014), UK researchers produced a significantly higher number of papers. However, these tended to be published in lower-impact journals, which resulted in fewer citations and a higher likelihood of retraction. .

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Quality Incentives Long-term Project 108

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2022

The researchers analyzed 1,275 CEO appointments between 2001 and 2014, and found that neither the length nor breadth of the new CEOs’ experience had any bearing on the performance in their new firm. Research from the University of Zurich suggests that a major reason for this could be a misalignment between the firm and the new hire.

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CEO Analysis Course Media 129

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 16, 2024

Research from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo explores how this scenario unfolded in Brazil after an economic crisis in 2014. The entrepreneurs studied can be split into two groups: those who operate in the informal economy and those who sign up as “individual micro-entrepreneurs” (MEIs).

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Ethics Entrepreneur Resistance Morale 65

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

Famous research from Stanford’s Nicholas Bloom illustrates the difficulties we face in keeping the wheels of innovation turning. Bloom illustrates that while we’re spending more on research and innovation than ever before, we’re getting diminishing returns for that investment. Engines of creation. in 1985 to 5.3%

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Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 115

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 1, 2018

Sam Walton learned his retail operational skills from Ben Franklin. He is currently a professor at Princeton University, where he teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity. This teaches us about accountability and performance. School can teach us how to channel stress and define how we behave under pressure.

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Skills Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Sports 192

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

There are daily reminders of the immense peril that often accompanies the crossing of international borders by refugees and asylum seekers, with data from the International Organization for Migration revealing that there were 16,300 deaths during such journeys between January 2014 and December 2018.

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Travel Analysis Globalization Operations 92

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Despite major turbulences (like the one of 2014), OPEC has successfully managed the supply/demand in the past. We should never underestimate the potential for technological innovation. The Future of Oil and Gas Industry is Now.

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Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 75

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. The CEO will become less of a doer and innovator and more of a leader of leaders.

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Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 247

Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 5, 2014

Neuroscientists such as Matthew Lieberman of the University of California at Los Angeles have also shown that when the neural circuits for being reactive drive behavior, some other neural circuits become less active—those associated with executive thinking, that is, controlling oneself, paying attention, innovating, planning, and problem solving.

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Motivation Proposal Stress Goal 280

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 24, 2020

They were able to quantify the traffic impact of aggregators after Google News shut down in Spain in December 2014. The analysis found that daily visits to Spanish news websites fell by up to 14% compared to their peers in France and Italy, where Google News remained in operation.

Industry 67

Industry Media Advertising Sports 67

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

In this uncertain environment, including the mounting global economic concerns, a humble mindset will be the only thing that will unlock the most promising business, social and economic innovations. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. Best Leadership Books of 2014. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Are we all entrepreneurs now? in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

Center for Creative Leadership

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

However, operating a team with genuinely different people also comes with a number of challenges that must be overcome to create a productive work environment. She was also the 2014 recipient of our Walter F. Applied Research Award. Here are some insights we learned from our conversation with her. What Is Cultural Intelligence?

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Team Emotional Intelligence Diversity Globalization 88

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

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Innovation Company Agility Workshop 12

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2014

The spark of innovation, the passionate drive to excel is gone from the leadership team and workforce. They recognize, however, the need to identify and eliminate the underlying, deep-rooted issues so to ensure continuity of operations and viability of their organization. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Newsletter Article Analysis Execution 51

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

And the globalized markets that frontier firms operate in disproportionately reward their knowledge advantage, setting them even further apart from the rest. In particular, small and medium-sized enterprises reduced their innovation efforts. Overall, business R&D increased by 67% between 2003 and 2014. Nonetheless, U.S.

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Innovation Company Globalization Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

That’s what Narayana Health (NH) did in 2014 by opening a hospital in the Cayman Islands — Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) — which was close to America but outside its regulatory ambit. As we explain in Reverse Innovation in Health Care , Narayana Health’s founder, Dr. Devi Shetty, wanted to disrupt U.S.

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Health Care System Innovation Price 15

HR Digest

JULY 15, 2019

For instance, leaders can connect with the millennial, which constitutes the largest and most diverse generation in the US employee population, according to a 2014 U.S Among everything else, this will require the HR to focus importantly on employee experience and also embrace agile methods of operation. Support talent-inspired changes.

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Brand Agility Technology Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The brand can’t just be the campaign, it has to exist in reality and, depending on the business, transcend strategy, operations, manufacturing, distribution, customer service, and, yes, marketing. JD Norman is Executive VP, Strategy and Innovation, at Black Ink. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Brand Marketing Competitive Advantage Bottom-up 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Call 2014 the year of innovation. Google Trends reveals that interest in disruptive innovation crept up to peak levels this year. It seems that every time you hop on a quarterly earnings call, the CEO mentions innovation. If innovation is the foundation to building the future, this focus should be reassuring.

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Long-term Innovation Company IPO 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Within an enterprise, this means balancing the demands of current operations while laying the groundwork for future opportunities, as well as reviewing past activities and policies that may be holding back your organization. Continuously reinventing your organization doesn’t mean you have to start from scratch with each new innovation.

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Innovation Company Engineering Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2014

My fellow HBR blogger Bill Taylor recently made a pitch for all of us to stop using the word “innovation” in 2014. What can be done, in the spirit of Bill’s admonishment, is to stop getting tangled up in all of the variations, nuances, tools, techniques, models, frameworks, and paradigms of innovation.

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Innovation Incubator Taylor Taylorism 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

We must be creative and innovative in our organizations but perhaps more importantly, in working on ourselves. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Isaacson makes the point that innovation happens in the real world by teams and not lone geniuses. Blog Post ).

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Books Wiseman Kotter Leadership 285

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

Governing boards might seem like the last place for innovation. But new strategies and structures are squarely in the board’s domain, and we have seen any number of governing boards innovating with, not just monitoring, management. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

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Innovation Committee Charan Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Innovation Rogers NGO Participative 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. Moreover, the skills that are cherished and rewarded for achieving current results differ from those that aid in discovery and experimentation, both of which are needed to drive innovation. First they agreed to shift funding from small, incremental acquisitions to innovation.

Innovation 9

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

Innovation 8

Innovation Early Adopters Marketing Retail 8

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Sadly, a further 18% of people said their careers had directly suffered as a result of their flexible working, which the authors propose is one reason why relatively few workers request something that was made available by law to all workers in 2014. Changing attitudes.

Career 73

Career Early Adopters Policies Proposal 73

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

On July 22, 2014, Apple announced financial results for its fiscal third quarter, reporting a revenue of $37.4 The value of profits as an ingredient for organizations to sustain and develop their operations is undeniable. Post by Bill Bellows. There is little evidence that we give a hoot about profit. Edwards Deming.

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Deming System Crisis Definition 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). But there’s also another type of innovation that is more gradual and smaller in scale.

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Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. Innovative Then and Now… Still Creating. Apply thinking processes to be truly innovative. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. by Hank Moore. Participated In It.

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Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

They control $20 trillion in global consumer spending, own or operate between 25-33% of all private businesses, and earn an estimated $13 trillion. This "power of the purse" is growing rapidly; expectations are that it will swell to $18 trillion by 2014. Having women among the firm''s innovators is but half the equation, however.

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Innovation Banking Proposal Diversity 10