The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s nearly a decade since Northwestern’s Robert Gordon pondered whether sclerotic innovation was causing the death of economic growth as we had come to know it. In essence, this is the process by which existing technologies and processes are combined or deployed in new ways. Buchanan highlights that 40% of all parents in the U.S.

Diversity 137

Diversity Entrepreneur Innovation Gordon 137

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

Cybercrime is like the mirror image of “white hat” technology use. Modern businesses need cybercrime deterrent solutions to maintain the security of operations. Monitoring, support, firewalls, antivirus solutions, and the latest technology patches are all key means of fighting cybercrime, as is internal education. I: Cybercrime.

Technology 10

Technology Contingency Plans Gordon Software 10

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

Sean Gordon has an extensive track record recruiting, hiring, training, and unlocking the talent of people. He started with AT&T, where he built award-winning teams in sales and operations from coast to coast. Connect with Sean Gordon on LinkedIn. About the Author. Sean founded vidREACH.io

Video 10

Video Gordon Film Creativity 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

For rhyming purposes and historical recall, it would be nice if it were the year 1964 when Gordon Moore discovered what came to be known as Moore’s Law. Still, the principle discovered lives on, and it is generally accepted today that technological capability in terms of computation doubles on itself about every eighteen months.

Guidelines 50

Guidelines Gordon Software Technology 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Sean Gordon has an extensive track record recruiting, hiring, training, and unlocking the talent of people. He started with AT&T, where he built award-winning teams in sales and operations from coast to coast. Connect with Sean Gordon on LinkedIn. About the Author. Sean founded vidREACH.io

Content 50

Content Gordon Video Budgeting 50

Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. Jet-Hot integrates Deming’s system view with their own management or operating system. Gordon: We don’t write job descriptions. Guest post by John Hunter.

System 31

System Deming Gordon Organization 31

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Our brick institutions have in no way caught up with what today’s technologies make possible in terms of virtual learning and individualized, customized instruction. Technology is fast eliminating the need for students to spend the majority of their educational lives on campuses in huge halls, listening to dull, cardboard lectures.

Education 21

Education Drucker Globalization Gordon 21

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Business education today is anachronistic – it has in no way caught up with what today’s communications technologies make possible in terms of individualized instruction and virtual learning. The economics of operating large campuses, big faculties, and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

Education 13

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

As Deborah Gordon, an ant biologist at Stanford, points out, “Elegant top-down designs are appealing, but the robustness of ant algorithms shows that tolerating imperfection sometimes leads to better solutions.” When ants don’t find food, they increase the randomness of their searching.

Organization 11

Organization Uncertainty Gordon Budgeting 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Under the leadership of Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove, Intel crafted the silicon lexicon of Moore’s Law, microprocessors, and megahertz that made digital innovation exponential. Simply put, your innovation needs to do more than merely add measurable value, it needs to measurably change behavior. It needs to be a verb.

Gordon 12

Gordon Innovation Brand Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. It’s not money that’s in short supply; it’s good growth ideas.

Human Capital 16

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. Dr. Gordon Moore of Rochester, New York traveled a parallel path. The attempts to “fix” the U.S.

Health Care 11

Health Care Gordon Travel Cost 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

In the late 1970s, for the San Jose Mercury-News , I became the world’s first daily high-technology reporter. Gordon Moore – soft-spoken, affable but distant, the most empirical human being imaginable — and, thanks to his Law, a man who likely would be remembered for centuries after Silicon Valley is gone.

Team 13

Team Diversity Gordon Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Institutions purchase hundreds of individual, siloed technologies — each with its own work processes, training, and user interfaces — based on what the market offers. We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together. No doubt, patients are at risk for more than seven harms.

Health Care 8

Health Care Engineering System Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

Gordon Ross, a lead tester on the Grand Theft Auto game, reportedly characterized it as “madness.” In certain areas of technology, the country is the undisputed leader for the continent: with London as the center of fintech in Europe, for example, fintech investment in the UK was $5.4 billion as compared to $4.4

Safe Harbor 12

Safe Harbor Industry Uncertainty Crisis 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2015

If what it takes to operate the businesses and make them successful are fundamentally similar, then it will be helpful to have a unifying corporate culture so that knowledge and learning get shared. Gordon Moore and Andy Grove were at Intel for decades. Is it unusual that the founders are still deeply involved at this inflection point?

Gordon 8

Gordon Business Model CEO Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

After yet another painful discussion about what to do, the late Andy Grove, then Intel’s president, turned to CEO Gordon Moore and asked , “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” ” Moore answered without hesitation: “He would get us out of memories.”

Levitt 8

Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. There is other evidence of a strong demand for workers with tech skills. is able to maintain its elite status.”

Outsourcing 13

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 13