The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

” The researchers offer instances from several industries such as sports, telecommunications, apparel, and automotive, to demonstrate how leaders utilize underdog narratives to motivate and fulfill their organizations’ objectives.

Motivation 52

Motivation Team Telecommunications Apparel 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Likewise, it has hit the business industry, bringing some tech-savvy innovations, especially for the marketing department. Instead of trying to compete, try to innovate better solutions. Pick an influencer of your niche – for instance, if you have an apparel brand, look for influencers who follow fashion.

Marketing Strategy 67

Marketing Strategy Marketing Strategy Audience 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

Phil Knight, former chair and CEO of Nike, tells the story of starting the sports apparel and equipment giant after taking an entrepreneurship class at Stanford and teaming up with his former track coach, Bill Bowerman. Together (and with the help of a waffle iron) they changed how running shoes are designed and made.

Innovation 8

Innovation Apparel Succession Download 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. The second will be disruptive business model innovation occasionally appearing in less-familiar sectors of the Chinese economy, powered by emerging entrepreneurs.

Business Model 10

Business Model Innovation Company Apparel 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation 10

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

With the Winter holiday shopping season, fashion apparel retailer Zara has been the focus of media attention — the New York Times recently profiled the innovative fast fashion business model pioneered by Zara, while Elizabeth Cline's book on the costs of fast fashion has climbed up the sales charts.

Business Model 9

Business Model Innovation First-mover Advantage Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Steve Farber

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And that’s a good thing to keep in mind if you want to help build an innovative culture. And we know his latest venture, men’s sports apparel startup, Qor (pronounced “core”), is already achieving over 30% yearly growth in part because it’s replicating the Athleta culture of caring.

Apparel 40

Apparel Energy Workshop Sports 40

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? A couple of years ago, for instance, when an apparel company mapped out what it thought was its new growth efforts, it found to its chagrin that a number of projects existed on paper, but that they were zero staffed – that is, no one was actually working on them.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

Intriguingly, some start-ups are coming up with characteristically innovative ways to tackle the problem. You would think that launching an innovative company, selling it to Amazon , and having sales of over $2 billion is enough for an entrepreneur, but not for Hsieh. The size of the apparel market only in the U.S.

Apparel 8

Apparel Strategy Insourcing Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The accessories and apparel designer uses in-store radio-frequency identification to send clothing items to dressing rooms, helps customers choose different styles and sizes, and shows stock availability in stores and online. But brick-and-mortar retail doors are closing, especially for apparel, as shoppers take their business online.

Retail 8

Retail Brand Apparel Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Stars of Science, a reality TV “edutainment” competition for the Arab world, is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary, owing to its success as a show that rewards innovation above all else. The show itself is an innovation, and it’s a self-generating resource. There’s nothing else like it out there.”

Content 8

Content Apparel Innovation Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In many categories, online retailing is advancing much faster than the last format innovation — self serve — did the last time around. That's partly because having to build out stores is not a constraint to growth in the virtual world. Or the self-deluding rationalization of a 1970s gas station attendant?

Retail 15

Retail Apparel Price Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Instead of thinking of itself merely as a sports apparel manufacturer, the company has purposefully developed a “connected fitness” ecosystem. Under Armour intends to enable these platforms to grow independently, while reaping aggregated data that can inform and expand its apparel designs. Under Armour, Inc.

Loyalty 14

Loyalty Marketing Maslow Apparel 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

These are innovation tools. This new orientation, combined with previously unavailable data, creates the ideal conditions for a new wave of innovation. The Sustainable Apparel Coalition offers a glimpse of one such effort. The reward: the business-to-business innovation opportunity that comes with getting this whole system view.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel Management Retail 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2017

Innovation abounds (especially in technology) and new value is being created hand over fist — yet the resulting wealth gains go to the few, while the many wind up financially worse off. This vexing global challenge causes me to wonder, “What if the world’s innovators turned their sights on solving this problem?

Drucker 9

Drucker Apparel Chemicals Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As I covered in my October HBR.org post, Patagonia's "Buy Less" Campaign May Lead to More Revenue , Patagonia has launched a campaign to encourage its consumers to buy only the apparel they need. The maverick retailer has also launched a new website for owners of Patagonia apparel to sell their used clothes to other consumers.

Retail 15

Retail Apparel Supply Chain Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

All too often, much-touted “revolutionary” innovations offer only incremental benefits at best; at worst, they are a costly distraction. The retailer offers a monthly subscription service for fitness and athleisure apparel and accessories. If nothing appeals, customers can skip a month at no cost.

Trends 10

Trends Hotels Competitive Advantage Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Inevitably, not all of the final pitches were winners but, to Facebook, the potential for uncovering groundbreaking innovations is worth pulling a couple hundred engineers away from their everyday tasks. The most skilled innovators put resources behind their strongest pitches and hone them further after the hackathon ends.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Banking Brainstorming Participative 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

The automotive industry is being disrupted by electric vehicles and self-driving cars, just as home appliances is being disrupted by the Internet of Things and smart appliances, home entertainment by on-demand content providers, and apparel by online personal stylists such as Stitch Fix and Trunk Club. Brand equity: heritage vs. digital.

Automotive 8

Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2012

The world's most innovative company brought in $46 billion in revenues, $13 billion in profit, and an eye-popping $17.5 Smart, innovative, lean companies can make plenty of money and do the right thing. Last week, Apple reported breathtaking earnings. billion in cash flow. But these marvels often rely on very real human costs.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Apparel Cost Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. According to Gail Baugh, president of PeopleWearSF, an alliance of sewn-product-industry professionals, the apparel industry can use many discarded materials for textiles. Instead, the same sad story is popping up in many parts of the world.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

But, that didn’t stop two successful Division I women’s basketball coaches from venturing into the bedsheet business, hoping to disrupt the industry with their innovative idea for “high performance” sheets.

Apparel 8

Apparel Telecommunications Transportation Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The company offers a subscription clothing and styling service that delivers apparel to its customers’ doors. And third, various machine-learning techniques should be combined to effectively identify insights and foster innovation. This is where the work interface comes into effect.

Company 8

Company Fashion Apparel Trends 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

They leverage technology in innovative ways. And they can do this by creating an innovative software layer around their products and a bold strategy for engaging audiences through original content that’s shared on the right channels.

Brand 8

Brand Apparel Software Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Some apparel retailers attempted to deny that they had any connection with the Rana Plaza building that collapsed — but data at the level of each shipment is increasingly available to both researchers like us and to the general public. Corporate social responsibility Global business Innovation'

Business Model 9

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Bonobos was one of the first vertically integrated online apparel companies — specializing in men's pants. Online apparel companies like Bonobos, Warby Parker, Quincy, and more have been offering showroom space for years (though mostly near their headquarters in New York).

Retail 9

Retail Apparel Christensen Discount 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

If you walk into a department store today, you are probably talking to a guy who is untrained; he was selling vacuum cleaners yesterday, and now he is in the apparel section. It just does not work.” receive stock options and health insurance. This is ever more important today, where differentiating your company is so difficult.

Execution 16

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Fara Howard , VP of global marketing for the shoe and apparel firm Vans, describes her brand as “an intuitive brand that leads with its heart.” But, importantly, they balance listening with innovation and inspiration. After all, as Davey noted, customers aren’t necessarily innovators or visionaries.

Leadership Styles 8

Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

These purpose driven supers felt an extraordinarily deep level of emotion for the retailer brand at levels typically associated powerful lifestyle brands in apparel and luxury goods. By innovating on the new mixes of price and benefits should create innovation opportunities for everyone.

Price 8

Price Brand Retail Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But as I’ve done for the last 4 years, I’ll attempt to summarize some of the latest stories about the big environmental and social pressures on business, and how some innovative companies are dealing with them. Food and food waste gets more attention, debate, and innovation: Can cows save the world, or should we make meat in labs?

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain McKinsey Energy Apparel 10

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Back in the ‘90s, LEGO had cluttered its corporate structure with the complexity that comes with acquiring a variety of businesses from apparel to theme parks. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle. By 2004, sales and profits were in double digit declines. In-N-Out Burger.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g., And what did they say was their biggest concern? Not competitive threats. Not rising costs.

Talent Management 8

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Here, Try Some Nixon and Kimchi: How the Garment Industry Came to Bangladesh Planet Money I admit it: The reference to Nixon and kimchi in the headline got me to read it, but this piece on how Bangladesh came to be a world center for apparel manufacturing held my interest. Then, with the introduction of the iPhone, they didn''t.

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. In the apparel industry, companies choose one path or the other between high-tech and high touch. While their competitors make the hard choice between one or the other path, these businesses reap the benefit of both. Transactions and relationships.

Chief Operating Officer 8

Chief Operating Officer Apparel Marketing Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

We recently worked with apparel industry leaders from design, sourcing, manufacturing, and brand management to prototype a more innovative, responsive, and responsible supply chain. The workshop did not include a single PowerPoint slide or digital simulation.

Team 8

Team Supply Chain Workshop Drucker 8