The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2021

The results reveal a clear divide between policymakers, who typically aligned around specific priorities, and the private sector, where no such consensus emerged. “As Among the private sector, however, no real consensus emerged, with several options equally popular.

Ethics 108

Ethics Consensus Constraint Report 108

The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 6, 2014

Consensus: Your team, industry peers, the media, etc. They buy into the same reason. “ Of course, the economy is to blame.” Consensus grows and resignation becomes contagious within your company and industry. That’s not to negate that economic downturns exist and can impact how a company operates and grows. This meme ….

Organization 164

Organization Leadership Consensus Market Segmentation 164

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” Is it market share of products? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share?

Mission Statement 120

Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 120

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

The consensus seems to be that it is alright. With an untold amount of startups in the current atmosphere and a market that seems to change every second, there is a measure of instability that can occur when a company operates on an unstable foundation. Communicate and Know the Purpose.

Positioning 102

Positioning Long-term Short-term Video 102

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The next phase in restoring public credibility to Tylenol was the reintroduction of new product to the shelves, done in such a way as to restore consumer confidence and increase market share. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

Crisis 71

Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

LDRLB

APRIL 13, 2020

Consider a few examples: “The company’s primary objective is to maximize long-term shareholder value while adhering to the laws of the jurisdictions in which it operates and at all times observing the highest ethical standard.” Is it market share of products? Is it a plurality—just the largest market share?

Mission Statement 78

Mission Statement Motivation Long-term Customer Loyalty 78

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 20, 2020

Marketing was wearing suit and tie everyday, and teams were operating by consensus and under the tight control of one leader. A group led by consensus and a Senior Leader will default to caution. Let’s learn from Marketing, and its customer centricity. This was when ‘facetime’ at the office was mandatory.

Consensus 52

Consensus Team Building Career Decentralization 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Consensus is a powerful tool. When CEOs set out to conquer new markets or undertake billion-dollar acquisitions, we’d hope they’d at least sought out some consensus from their trusted advisors. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. The problem with consensus is that it’s expensive. has legs.

Consensus 15

Consensus Innovation Company Ries 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). But there are some measurements that try.

Innovation 17

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The process by which a network of nodes confirms the record of previously verified transactions, and by which it verifies new transactions, is known as a consensus protocol. The applications for private blockchains include a variety of markets in which multiple parties wish to participate simultaneously but do not fully trust one another.

Consensus 14

Consensus Decentralization System Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political activities. But the ECB's most powerful weapon — intervening in the bond market — is still locked away. It is easy to take a grim view.

Crisis 16

Crisis Consensus Banking Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Active listening and probing (with humility, not aggression) energizes groups, encourages them to reach consensus, and helps them arrive at new and better solutions. But his division's operations department was adamant it could not be done given the tremendous complexity of its processes. Prime the Pump.

360-Degree Feedback 21

360-Degree Feedback Welch Active Listening CEO 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Because they have been trained and incented to care about the real game, the one happening on the field, and not about the associated betting market. But in the business world, their precise equivalents are standard operating procedure. We've never seen an apology from a QB for winning a game, but by less than the point spread.

CEO 16

CEO Consensus Conference Rogers 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Trend lines, market sizing, and competitive benchmarks that served companies well during periods of gradual market evolution do little good in industries where new technologies create seismic shifts, demand is uncertain, and rivals emerge from left field. Yet in turbulent times this is dysfunctional. The company could merge with Dell.

Strategy 16

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. Every day GM operates such factories, it expends more resources that could be redeployed elsewhere.

Restructuring 14

Restructuring Fixed Costs Operations Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. for the quarter, just barely clearing the consensus estimates of $0.40. Had something catastrophic happened? The problem?

Proposal 16

Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

We aren't the first to see that the world has changed and free market competition no longer produces benefits as if by an invisible hand. Before 1850 there was the market economy, in which many players, engaged in something plausibly resembling perfect competition , collectively met demand without any grand plan to do so.

Competitive Advantage 16

Competitive Advantage Porter Politics Marketing 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2011

While the joint CEO structure was one of the key factors that helped us navigate the economic crisis," explained Chairman Azim Premji , "with the market exploding now, there is a need for a simpler, leaner organization. Collaboration, despite widespread confusion on this point, is not consensus.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Politics Leadership CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2012

Can we get to the market without any technological miracles? After exploration, there are lots of ways to plan, but at the very least a good plan details the target customer, crucial stakeholders, the essence of the idea, key economics, the commercialization path, proposed operations, the team, financial requirements, and the action plan.

Company 16

Company Net Present Value How To Proposal 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The executives' role is to define the attributes of the customer experience in partnership with their operational colleagues, organize the customer-satisfaction-measurement process against those attributes, and encourage remedial action wherever warranted. Many companies now have senior officers in charge of customer experience.

B2B 14

B2B Consensus Products Productivity 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested.

GDP 10

GDP Human Capital Film Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

If you’re a marketer, you have to decide whether you’d prefer to work for a marketing agency or in the marketing department of an organization. A law firm cannot provide legal services without lawyers, for example, but a tech company could continue to operate for a long time without a general counsel.

Company 15

Company Report Positioning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

operations compete more effectively. The great majority of business leaders understand that what is necessary is investments in the business environment and efforts to reach consensus on issues such as health care costs, balancing the budget, and tort reform. operations compete more effectively.

Short-term 14

Short-term Survey Consensus Health Care 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Like many entrepreneurial founders, he did it by force of personality and personal vision, without much concern for consensus or committees. It has had the luxury of having a personification of its ethos, and now it must either allow someone else to be that, or learn to operate effectively without one. History shows it isn't easy.

Licensing 12

Licensing Entrepreneur CEO Consensus 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. military operations in Vietnam. All too few. You remember how huge Nokia was.

Consensus 12

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Studies comparing the problem-solving abilities of groups in which dissenting views are voiced with groups in which they are not find that dissent tends to be a better precondition for reaching the right solution than consensus. military operations in Vietnam. All too few. You remember how huge Nokia was.

Consensus 12

Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Social media and digital news offer a continuously-updated reflection of the culture consumers live within.The overwhelming consensus from the Wharton Future of Advertising panel is that the current campaign-based model is ill-equipped to deal with this new reality. A Unique Approach to Marketing Coca-Cola in Hong Kong. Getting There.

Advertising 13

Advertising Brand Content Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2016

Time is viewed as limited in supply, so Western people structure their lives, especially business operations, by milestones and deadlines. Time often literally equals money, in terms of costs, profit margins, and beating the competition for market share. Well, Japan’s business culture prizes group consensus.

Delegation 15

Delegation Efficiency Learning-by-Doing Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

B2C marketers have long known that the key to a customers’ hearts and minds is to make the connection between the brand and customers’ sense of self. B2B marketers, on the other hand, have shied away from the idea, instead approaching selling as a rational, numbers-driven process where the best value proposition wins.

B2B 8

B2B Consensus B2C Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%. And they were shocking: Just 1% of Egan's SKUs accounted for 100% of its operating profits. It should be to win in every one of our chosen markets.

Case Study 15

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Part of the problem is there isn't a clear consensus on what marks an innovative company. Return on equity (net income divided by equity) results from multiplying three key operating ratios: Profitability (net income over sales). Operating efficiency (sales over assets). But there are some measurements that try.

Innovation 10

Innovation Company Disaggregation Financial Leverage 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Success begets not only further success but also harder-to-meet market expectations. In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple. Brand confidently.

Brand 10

Brand Customer Loyalty Hedge Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

For example, the delays associated with social conflict at large mining operations can run in the vicinity of $20 million per week. Yet the same companies that spend months and millions tweaking operational details devote only a small fraction of their resources to understanding and addressing the social risks they face.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Project 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. When Uncle Wall Street (also known as Mr. Market ) is in a generous mood, Bezos is always ready to take advantage by putting investment ahead of profitability.

Training 13

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Alfred Rappaport's article, " Stock Market Signals to Managers ," in the November-December 1987 issue of the Harvard Business Review, provides managers with a clear method for understanding how price reflects the market's expectations about the company's future financial performance. But very few executives or investors do.

Price 8

Price Analysis Cost of Capital Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. In the U.S.,

Energy 9

Energy Industry Engineering Technology 9