Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology. This week, his other company, SpaceX, became the first commercial company in history to put a spacecraft in orbit and bring it back to earth. 

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Executive Coaching Blog Letter Execution 139

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

If you want to learn how to develop an experimentation organization, read on. For centuries, we’ve built and organized scientific and technological knowledge through testable explanations and predictions. These, in turn, have given us modern medicine, food, energy, transportation, communication, and so much more.

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Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 95

Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

We had our own boom and bust cycle of people seeking rooms for the event, along with constant speculation about the number of people involved, and how the city’s transportation and services would hold up. A manager that can provide this to their employees will develop a loyal and strong team.

Press Release 100

Press Release Motivation Discount PR 100

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Self-driving vehicles, once a science fiction technology, are rapidly becoming a reality that promises to transform our lives – making it safer and more efficient to move people and goods, while reinventing our thinking about transportation. Arizona startup Local Motors developed “Ollie,” the self-driving bus here.

Transportation 8

Transportation Content Committee Technology 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The last decade ushered in an economic meltdown and technological breakthroughs that have forever changed the business world as we knew it. To keep his workers thinking and engaged, Ohno developed a new way for them to think about waste – where ‘waste’ is not a thing but an assessment or an interpretation.

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Ohno Productivity Products Six Sigma 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2024

Freight forwarders are logistics experts who arrange the transportation of goods on behalf of shippers. They do not usually move the cargo themselves but act as intermediaries between the shipper and various transportation services, including shipping lines, trucking companies, and airlines.

Supply Chain 105

Supply Chain Contingency Plans Transportation Compliance 105

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. Most hearing aids in the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Waymo’s Director of Operations Shaun Stewart said that one of the reasons they chose Trov is that innovative technology needs innovative partners. ” Founder and CEO of Trov Scott Walchek said that “ this partnership highlights the convergence of the future of transportation with the future of insurance. .”

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Insurance Transportation Licensing Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. This distinction is important because the driver is typically the most expensive part of a transport business, be it taxi services, last-mile logistics, or long-haul trucking.

Automotive 9

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 9

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

At the recent INNOVEIT event in Brussels, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology launched its Deep Tech Talent Initiative , which aims to provide a million people across the EU with the skills required to function in the deep tech sector in the coming years. There is much within this that makes sense.

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Skills Education Innovation Transportation 133

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Clearly, artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technologies are finding their way into most everything that we touch and use in everyday life, including consumer products, financial services and healthcare delivery. appeared first on The Executive Hub. ” In October, Samsung Electronics unveiled Bixby 2.0,

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Press Release Automotive Innovation Technology 170

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In past years, we heard mostly from startup founders and academics — people who pay attention to early, far-reaching trends in technology. This year we’ve heard more from Fortune 500 executives with questions about machine intelligence than from startup founders. These executives are asking themselves what to do.

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Software Transportation Tools Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

There is no week in big cities when a technology event is not happening. From Nokia to Blackberry, everyone is asking the graduate to come and develop on their platforms. We have also observed more funding opportunities for technology companies. Technology hubs are emerging and Silicon Valley continues to inspire.

Banking 15

Banking Technology Transportation Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Outsiders often look at problems in new ways. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Incentives How To 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. The same underlying technologies (e.g., Silicon Valley dominates these platform technologies. stood at 22.6%, more than twice New England’s 9.9%

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Drucker Software Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

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Competitive Advantage Leadership Telecommunications Talent Management 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

The panel’s report characterized the WHO’s “organizational culture” as inadequate for emergency response and, among its recommendations, underscored the need for more effective mechanisms for “research and development” of new approaches. The possible innovations are not limited to technologies alone.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

Because disruptive products were cheaper, more accessible, and built on new technology architectures, they tended to be crummier than the existing highest-end solutions. New technologies, combined with business model innovation, provide the structural cost advantage necessary to take large chunks of the market over time.

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

But I am also excited about “stagecraft,” a related approach that fakes a new product or service to get real-life reactions from users early in the development process. Employed early in the development process, stagecraft can yield critical insights that you might not discover until much later on. It’s all staged.

Learning-by-Doing 11

Learning-by-Doing Engineering Film Transportation 11

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Supply chain management (SCM) entails the optimal execution of all these events in a sustainable, cost-effective, and efficient manner using technology to cater to customers’ demands and minimize delays. Integrating Technology to Increase Agility. A single missing loop can disrupt the entire chain of businesses.

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Supply Chain Agility Management Operations 92

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

But even if you get all of that right, your effort will fall apart if you build the wrong team to execute. The rising phenomenon of reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world — presents a similar challenge for many companies. Most companies take the team building step far too casually.

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Innovation Bottom-up Engineering Transportation 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

But the interesting point here is that this growth is not confined to the natural resource sector; the increased economic activity has led to the development of complementary sectors. I nfluencing stakeholders both internal and external by developing detailed engagement plans.

McKinsey 12

McKinsey Health Care Class Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

To address this issue, my colleagues William Schmidt of Cornell, Yehua Wei of Duke, and I developed a method to help prioritize the financial or operational impact of risk that lets companies focus their mitigation efforts on the most important suppliers and risk areas. In response, we have developed a remedy. Insight Center.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Metrics Operations Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

To help business leaders better understand industry disruption, we developed an index that measures an industry’s current level of disruption as well as its susceptibility to future disruption. Incumbents in these industries often own established brands, proprietary technology, and control of distribution channels.

Industry 8

Industry Fixed Assets Retail Market Penetration 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

In February, President Obama issued an executive order aimed at protecting critical infrastructure, adding the administration''s voice to those of Congressional members and corporate leaders in the national conversation on cybersecurity. The first focuses on the concept of enhanced public/private information sharing and developing standards.

Cooper 8

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Musk was a co-founder of PayPal and is the chief designer at SpaceX, overseeing development of rockets and spacecraft. Other executives have similarly impressive backgrounds at Apple and in the aerospace and automotive industries. That's the tension I see in the original Broder review: great driving, bad transportation.

Automotive 9

Automotive Review Transportation Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2016

The model is changing as new technologies allow people to bring the purchase of the product that satisfies their need closer to their first perception of it. Especially for fast-moving-consumer-goods, this development will also significantly push non-store based sales. Subscription-based purchasing.

Retail 8

Retail Transportation Tactics Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

And with today’s technologies, companies now have the ability to see and act on these fluctuations in the moment. As a yogurt executive at General Mills noted, “The simplicity of this idea, that this is a French method, coming from a French brand, with a French name — that’s authenticity.”

Loyalty 14

Loyalty Marketing Maslow Apparel 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” Three of five marketers use no tools to measure event ROI, and most companies plan and execute events without specific business objectives. No technology can help managers who are unable or unwilling to set goals.

CRM 8

CRM ROI Budgeting Public Relations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Equipment and technology — such as scan guns, refrigerators, and training or scheduling software — that frequently breaks down, forcing employees to spend hours on the phone with help desks or just go without critical equipment for days or weeks. These are people who need a living wage to support themselves and their families.

Retail 10

Retail Absenteeism Motivation Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Cheap, plentiful labor was readily available in developing countries like China, India, Mexico and Eastern Europe. Falling trade barriers, inexpensive energy and low transport charges further strengthened the case for making products overseas. Yet these developing economies are home to the "next billion" consumers. Diversify.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. And there is an increasing fear that technology could make matters worse by displacing jobs on a large scale. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Transportation, mobile communications professional development and — yes — parenting are also rife with opportunity. It's now how silver haired executives — and 75 year old grandmas — read the news, manage their email and play games with the kids. But it's time the so-called emerging economies stepped up.

Innovation 16

Innovation Health Care Globalization Media 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Combining deep expertise in both digital technology and industrial machines is not easy. Software development must be guided by the industrial machines’ purpose, potential and limitations—and vice versa. As a result, machine uptime, throughput, and inventory turnovers increase. Higher responsiveness leads to higher sales.

Industry 8

Industry Supply Chain Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

That includes learning from the outside and striving to adopt certain start-up practices, with a focus on three key management processes: (1) resource allocation that nurtures future businesses, (2) faster-cycle product development, and (3) partnering with start-ups. Product development: g etting closer to customers and moving faster.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. Patient capital.

Company 9

Company Ries Maturity Innovation 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” My partner David and I developed the idea for our company 10 years ago, and I took over as CEO several years ago. Over eighty founders or co-founders of health care, technology, social media, retail, and financial services firms responded. Yet I really have a hard time tearing myself away from the office to play.

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Company Entrepreneur Survey CEO 10