The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. Skills for scaling.

Entrepreneur 79

Entrepreneur Human Capital Skills Social Capital 79

HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years. But less than half of the respondents had a clear sense of how to address the problem.

McKinsey 134

McKinsey Aggregate Demand Industry Crisis 134

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 7, 2011

In short, trust is a form of social capital that enhances performance between individuals, within and among groups, and in larger collectives, like organizations, institutions and nations. Research has linked the virtues and benefits of trust to economic prosperity, societal stability, and even human survival.

Team 129

Team Team Building Cooper Bottom-up 129

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 23, 2020

It’s not all negative however, as the annual Prosperity Index from the Legatum Institute suggests that the last decade has seen economies actually become more open, with every region of the world showing improvements, especially in areas such as market access and infrastructure.

Report 71

Report Globalization Social Capital Education 71

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

As I described in my last post , your prospective customers and buyers increasingly learn about you from their peers — including your current customers — while tending more and more to ignore traditional sales and marketing communications from corporate. This is an area of tremendous creativity.

Social Capital 13

Social Capital Review Software Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

It's becoming ever clearer that entrepreneurship is the answer to the vexing economic questions facing Africa today: job creation, capital formation, skills acquisition, taxation-based self-sufficiency, quality of governance-demand, and of course social inclusion. But how has it actually evolved in Africa?

Entrepreneur 20

Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain Globalization 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. As an analogy, think of sales and marketing and the rise of CRM.

Innovation 12

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

has a more developed system of equity finance than the countries of Europe, including angel investors willing to finance startups and a very active venture capital market that helps finance the growth of those firms. A financial system that supports entrepreneurship. Less than 7% of the private sector U.S.

Decentralization 15

Decentralization GDP Finance Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Very few countries see declines in their overall score but Italy is one of them, with a drop in its performance on the Governance and Social Capital sub-indices. And a couple of companies have told us they use the Prosperity Index as a resource when they assess the potential of new markets.

GDP 13

GDP Social Capital Globalization Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets. Because it includes the word media , and the genesis is marketing, most people think of this as the stuff the CMO and their team worry about.

Media 12

Media Supply Chain Tools Porter 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

David Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, once observed that “Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing people.” And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered.

Brand 9

Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

This architecture reflects three key ingredients of today’s social marketplaces: Empowerment. We see this in marketing with product development and advertising, mostly. Integrate the idea of social capital in the monetization approach. Companies are embracing the idea of delegating activities to their customers.

Price 14

Price Content Reputation Advertising 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered. I thought of how most organizations attract patients using the “star” system – they market the superstar cardiologist or neurosurgeon, for example. They came because we’re the Mayo Clinic. The results are impressive.

Health Care 14

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The result has been so much more than a marketing ploy – it has changed the care being delivered. I thought of how most organizations attract patients using the “star” system – they market the superstar cardiologist or neurosurgeon, for example. They came because we’re the Mayo Clinic. The results are impressive.

Health Care 14

Health Care Examples Mayo Management 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

There was no UK strategy to enable Scotland to develop alternative engines of growth, as other small advanced economies were able to do. Scotland has the intrinsic qualities of successful small advanced economies: an educated population, social capital, and competitive firms. But neither is this the full story.

Consensus 14

Consensus Globalization Politics Policies 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

In most developed nations, we find that being self-employed is associated both with higher overall life evaluation and with more negative, daily emotions such as stress and worry. It will most likely come as no surprise to anyone who owns a business that being self-employed can be both rewarding and stressful!

Report 15

Report Transportation Stress Quality 15

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

Here’s what Jason wrote: For the uninitiated, the Leadership Development Carnival is collection of blog posts, normally maintained by Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership by Dan , about leadership development. Amy has a unique ability to see around corners and figure out what’s coming in the talent development space.

Article 199

Article Leadership Ingham McCarthy 199

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Some studies suggest that radical innovation (which does sound sexy) confers sustainable competitive advantages, but others show that “mild” innovation – think iPhone 5 rather than the original iPhone – is generally more effective, not least because it reduces market uncertainty. Ideas don’t make people successful – it’s the other way around.

Innovation 8

Innovation Succession Creativity Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The free-flowing exchange, in which employees, partners, and collaborators gain social capital through their creative input, has helped propel growth. Marketers have always understood how great messaging contributes to the success of new products, services, and brands. Some eventually cross over to become full-time employees.

Creativity 8

Creativity Storytelling Open-book Social Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Performing market assessments. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints. Company Fit.

Products 8

Products Productivity Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Develop your rationale. This will ensure that the marketing perspective is represented and will keep my team in the loop of upcoming priorities so we can plan accordingly and meet critical deadlines. If you agree that it makes sense for marketing to be included, we can discuss whether that representative is me or someone from my team.”

How To 8

How To Social Capital Maturity Operations 8

Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. People who view the world differently.

Innovation 140

Innovation Stage-Gate Blanchard Social Capital 140

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 24, 2013

For example, Amazon , a company with about $75 billion in annual revenue and a $140 billion market value, relies on metrics like continually rooting out inefficiencies and, with a few well-known peculiarities like "desks with repurposed doors," underights cost effectiveness and abhors “social cohesion." Source: Wayne E.

Social Capital 77

Social Capital Cialdini Competitive Advantage Human Capital 77

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Does unemployment threaten young adults’ developing confidence? We drew on a unique data archive, the Youth Development Study (YDS), which has monitored the employment status (employed, unemployed, out of the labor force) of a cohort of more than 1,000 youth in St. Paul, Minnesota as they moved from adolescence to adulthood.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Social Capital Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Political economist Francis Fukuyama predicted a future when social capital would be as important as physical capital, and that only those societies with a high degree of social trust would be able to create large-scale organizations capable of competing in the new economy.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Content Power Insurance 8

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

Innovation 114

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 114

LDRLB

APRIL 23, 2012

Whereas innovation used to be all about research & development, technology, and product or service innovation, what’s required for innovation today goes far beyond the traditional nuts and bolts. Innovation today is as much about how you deliver value as it is about what it is you offer to the market.

Innovation 113

Innovation Kaplan Short-term Long-term 113

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. 1] He also worked hard to build his social capital with other talented inventors, but also with wealthy families and financiers like J. I think ideas come from everywhere.

Innovation 83

Innovation Reputation Social Capital How To 83

Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

It is incumbent upon us, whether we’re a blue lobster or not, to find, nurture and develop blue lobsters. They think they’re innovative because they make something in green instead of just red, but they stick with their industries, markets, customers, and (usually dying) business models. People who view the world differently.

Innovation 91

Innovation Stage-Gate Blanchard Social Capital 91

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it.

Social Capital 10

Social Capital Health Care Cooper Storytelling 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Last June, I raised a few eyebrows when I told attendees at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio (aka Rio+20 ) that "accountants would save the world." We were building social capital, but we didn't have a way to tell our shareholders — or be held accountable to keep doing it. But I meant it.

Social Capital 15

Social Capital Report Finance Transportation 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

Develop strong external networks. An extensive network and other types of social capital can help mitigate the effects of organizational stigma. A stigmatized manager can appear less of a risk in the job market if there are multiple credible arbiters to vouch for his or her integrity.

Company 13

Company Due Diligence Mission Statement How To 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

At the same time, we will localize production in big end-use markets like Saudi Arabia. executives feel that they do not generally seem to have the kind of social capital that would cushion against a big sociopolitical backlash. But it is not clear what it does to help address the rage building at home in the U.S. Perhaps U.S.

Globalization 8

Globalization Education Policies Survey 8