The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

I’ve written a number of times in the past about the increasingly recombinative nature of innovation, and data analytics can be a great help in achieving that recombination of ideas and technologies. Analytics can connect those dots, and the research found works especially well in decentralized innovation environments.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The rapid pace of technological advancement and evolving business models are transforming the job market at an unprecedented rate. I have identified ten job titles within the realms of leadership and business operations. Middle Manager: The traditional hierarchical management structure is giving way to more agile, decentralized models.

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Information Chief Operating Officer COO Middle Management 129

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 24, 2020

While in the second year of my profession the great recession hit and had a significant impact on my area of expertise including venture capital, and private equity-backed technology companies.

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Crisis Management Zimbardo Decentralization 207

Lead from Within

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As the landscape of business undergoes seismic shifts due to technologies like AI and blockchain, leaders face the challenge of future-proofing their workforce. The Rise of Holacracy: The trend towards decentralized leadership—sometimes known as holacracy—challenges the traditional hierarchy of organizations.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

” The Matthew Effect Indeed, far from technology being found to disrupt incumbent operators, the data suggests that investments in digital technology are largely ensuring that dominant incumbents can entrench their strong market position and fight off any upstarts.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 8, 2021

Binance Labs is responsible for coordinating and financing projects based on blockchain technology, and Binance Research is responsible for providing high-quality analysis. The company also has its own decentralized wallet and even official Telegram channels that keep the entire community in touch.

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Armstrong Decentralization Finance Licensing 129

Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2024

Additionally, maintaining energy resilience ensures that essential services, such as hospitals, schools, and emergency response units, remain operational during and after natural disasters. Among the most promising are microgrids, small-scale power grids capable of operating independently of the main grid.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. It looked at the role technology plays in economic recoveries, both in terms of economic growth and the number of jobs.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2024

Identity and Access Management (IAM) refers to the policies, technologies, and practices that organizations use to manage and secure user identities and their access to resources. Improving Operational Efficiency : IAM systems streamline the process of managing user access. These technologies help improve security and efficiency.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Blockchain technology – the decentralized tech that was famously introduced to supports bitcoin – is now be leveraged to remedy the many disparities that exist in today’s online content landscape. operate using for-profit, centralized business models that are wholly dependent on third parties. It’s efficient and transparent.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. With the advent of the Information Age and increasingly rapid waves of technological change, the Alpha model – which Ardi likens to an army, led by a commander-in-chief in which information flows in only one direction – is on its way out, explains Ardi.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2020

Technology has allowed numerous industries to grow at a rapid pace and has streamlined countless business processes…but it still can’t learn, design, and discover the way people can. Technology has its role in every workplace, but the lights are back on for the people in the room. Ake et al, 2004; pg 266).

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Now however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. In a superjob, technology has not only changed the nature of the skills the job requires but has changed the nature of the work and the job itself.”

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Competitive Advantage Kaizen Learning-by-Doing Technology 57

Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. With the advent of the Information Age and increasingly rapid waves of technological change, the Alpha model – which Ardi likens to an army, led by a commander-in-chief in which information flows in only one direction – is on its way out, explains Ardi.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 62

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. With the advent of the Information Age and increasingly rapid waves of technological change, the Alpha model – which Ardi likens to an army, led by a commander-in-chief in which information flows in only one direction – is on its way out, explains Ardi.

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Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

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. Technology is now asking teams to work under pressure, fast and remotely. This was when ‘facetime’ at the office was mandatory. Alignment was more important than anything else. ‘Us’ Us’ prevailed over ‘I’.

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Consensus Team Building Career Decentralization 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past 20 years the economy has progressively moved away from the traditional model of centralized organizations, where large operators, often with a dominant position, were responsible for providing a service to a group of passive consumers. Recently, a new technology has emerged that could change this imbalance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are driven by advances in core technologies along with a new, open architecture — the Bitcoin blockchain. Like the internet, in the early stages of development there are many competing technologies, so it’s important to specify which blockchain you’re talking about.

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Banking Media Decentralization Technology 21

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

In New York state, neighbors are testing their ability to sell solar energy to one another using blockchain technology. Meanwhile in Germany, the power company Innogy is running a pilot to see if blockchain technology can authenticate and manage the billing process for autonomous electric-vehicle charging stations. Insight Center.

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Decentralization Energy Technology Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Hence, when (re-)designing the organization structure, they tend to decentralize decision-making, so that decision rights are as close as possible to the people who deal with customers, competitors, front-line employees, and other stakeholders. Decentralization allows immediacy in time and place, hence responsiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. Each brings its own challenges.

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Energy Decentralization Power Industry 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Blockchain experts call this “decentralization.” ” Decentralization offers the promise of nearly friction-free cooperation between members of complex networks that can add value to each other by enabling collaboration without central authorities and middle men. How technology is transforming transactions.

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Supply Chain Decentralization Banking Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

As a result, when companies are hacked, it can take days for information technology teams to isolate infected systems, remove malicious code, and restore business continuity. But they continue to operate and communicate with other systems until information technology teams shut them down and correct the malfunction.

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System Decentralization Information Technology Banking 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. The B&N precedent raises the question of whether business schoolseven elite onescan afford to maintain a business-as-usual approach to their traditional core operations. We are decentralized and mostly non-profit.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. the technology research and advisory company. Information that has been tampered with can disrupt operations — and constituents’ lives — for days.

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Decentralization System Technology Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology underlying bitcoin, may prove to be far more valuable than the currency it supports. As we begin to put distributed ledger technology into practice, it’s important to make sure that the initial conditions we’re setting up aren’t setting us up for security issues later on.

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Consensus Decentralization System Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

it is cheap to operate and expensive to upgrade. Or do we need better technologies that can be more efficient at using the internet we've already got? Only through technology do we have the power to solve the problems facing the internet, while preserving its ultimate value. Needless to say, I believe in this technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

At Boeing, all enterprise technology (including digital) investments are managed by the CTO, which enables significant synergies. For Commonwealth Bank of Australia, convergence involved bringing together operations and IT into a new unit, Enterprise Services (ES), headed by the CIO. IT management Information & technology Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

We have identified how hospitals’ budgeting systems have erected three distinct barriers to the adoption of technology. These barriers, however, can be overcome by changing how hospitals acquire new technology and by providing incentives to units to use digital innovations to provide more effective and efficient care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

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Drucker Long-term Short-term Decentralization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

To best leverage worldwide creative talent, Reliance MediaWorks operates a global network of creative centers located in Burbank, San Francisco, London, Tokyo, and across India. Suzlon's head of technology is John O'Halloran, a former Cummins Engine executive who now leads Suzlon's 500-strong global R&D team out of Hamburg.

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Globalization Innovation Decentralization Chemicals 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The infiltration of technology into every part of our lives has made many people seek out personal, low-tech/high-touch experiences and relationships with the companies they patronize. It takes organizational, cultural, and operational changes. There are other operational considerations. Marketing Operations Retail'

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work.

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