The Horizons Tracker

JULY 25, 2019

Interestingly however, they believe that a blockchain-empowered timebank can help to hedge against the growing tide of AI-driven technologies that they believe will depersonalize communities.

Banking 69

Banking Hedge Proposal Bond 69

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

If automation is restricted to Sun Belt states (including Florida, Texas and Arizona)—because the technology may not initially work well in rough weather—about 10% of the operator hours will be affected,” they explain. Our results suggest that the impacts of automation may not happen all at once. We hope to help resolve these controversies.”.

Osborne 75

Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 75

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It can help them innovate. The HR Digest: Can you share with The HR Digest readers some innovative recruiting strategies that allow Mastercard to compete for talent in America and abroad?

Resources 40

Resources Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 40

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

When stock markets gyrate and growth prospects darken, it's tempting to rein in innovation programs and hoard cash. Companies can do five things to hedge their bets in turbulent times while opening up options for the future: 1. The company has invested in this brand's innovation in many ways.

Innovation 15

Innovation Fixed Costs Airlines Business Model 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

And when they don’t feel safe, they don’t take risks – and where there is no risk taken, there is less innovation, less ‘going the extra mile,’ and therefore, very little unexpected upside. In my book, I describe an incident that took place at a famous, fast-growing technology company.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is perhaps its greatest asset and preserving it requires Apple to make sure the ecosystems, technology, product design all meet a much higher standard than any of its competitors. The iBeacon technology sets them for some big stuff in revolutionizing the retail experience (as does the hiring of Musa Tariq from Burberry).

Creativity 17

Creativity Supply Chain Hedge Brand 17

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot." – Clayton Christensen, The Innovator's Solution. Over the years, venture capitalists have been some of the most ardent students of disruptive innovation. Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well.

Hedge 15

Hedge Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves.

CIO 15

CIO Venture Capitalist Chief Information Officer Conference 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

Business Model 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In 2007, Clayton Christensen co-founded Rose Park Advisors, a hedge fund devoted to investing in disruptive companies. The idea was to transform his theory of disruptive innovation into an investment thesis. Disruptive innovation can take several forms, and the market understands some types better than others.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Discounted Cash Flow 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

One professional service firm told us how a senior partner sold only technology implementation services &38212; an area he was personally passionate about — to his clients in South America. The second approach is to salvage ideas or technologies that didn't solve the problem they were intended to solve. Rehabilitate a misfit.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Sample Hedge Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I recently participated in a spirited panel discussion with Bruce Brown, Procter & Gamble's Chief Technology Officer, and Erich Joachimsthaler, Vivaldi Partners' managing director and CEO. How should companies hedge against the practice of copying your products as you go into those markets? IKEA is a great example of this.

Marketing 14

Marketing Hedge Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns. Science fiction can help.

Stephenson 15

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

The coverage suggested that the man who gave us QE2 held shockingly anachronistic beliefs about basic research's role in promoting innovation. I thought this would be a wonderful gateway to post on how poorly economists and economics understand and measure innovation in global markets. Bernanke's quotes were truisms and clichés.

Due Diligence 14

Due Diligence Disintermediation Micromanagement Analysis 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Companies would do better at satisfying and retaining customers if they spent less time worrying about big data and more time making good use of "small data" — already-available information from simple technology solutions — to become more flexible, informative, and helpful. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? More >>.

CAPEX 15

CAPEX Balanced Scorecard Hedge Software 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Innovators more intent on inventing the future than predicting it should look hard at how cutting-edge scientists now computationally massage their big data. AH, not AI, will increasingly inspire tomorrow’s breakthrough innovation. The breakthrough innovator’s hypothesis doesn’t have to come from a human.

Engineering 8

Engineering Core Competence Hedge Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. These moves require limited investment while providing critical hedges against unexpected changes in the marketplace.

Strategy 15

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

Operations 8

Operations Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The Kahn Academy, founded by Salman Kahn (a former hedge fund manager), is a not-for-profit, online venture that is currently revolutionizing K-12 education. The underlying technology is PowerPoint but it is accelerated beyond what one could do in a lecture hall. If you want to know how, here is the obligatory TED video.

Video 15

Video Education Christensen Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible.

Bond 11

Bond Education Finance Video 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

The shorthand explanation: Globalization, technological change, and deregulation have disrupted long-established industries and professions. In times of change, businesses have to adapt and innovate. hedge funds? To survive and thrive, the reasoning goes, you often have to expand or change the definition of your business.

PR 10

PR Public Relations Porter Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

There were no big technological changes — factories, steamships, and railroads were still largely in the future. That new mindset in turn did much to spur the speedy adoption of technologies in later decades. As historians have increasingly appreciated, technology is usually a secondary cause in economic development.

Class 8

Class Hedge Technology Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. John Fedele/Getty Images. These advances all point toward the total automation of our lives, including the way we work and do business.

Skills 15

Skills Morale Ethics System 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. “I But still sitting on the sidelines?

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Education Disruptive Innovation Asset Management 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. Intuit had many failures as part of their innovation process. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

Business Model 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Venture Capitalist 12

Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Finance Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

The sheer magnitude of Apple’s new headquarters sets it apart from any other technology workspace on the West Coast. Software, like information technology in general, is optimized for speed and upgrades — constant, sometimes radical change. million square feet) called the Ring, designed to house 12,000 employees.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Technology Hedge Project 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Comcast, DISH Network, AMC holdings, Liberty Media, News Corporation, and Viacom have traditionally had dual-class shares — arguably to maintain news independence — a more important recent development is the widespread adoption of dual-class structure by technology companies. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

Class 10

Class Maturity IPO Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

While big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things garner the lion’s share of media attention, using data to its full potential is much more about management than it is about technology. Innovate products, services, and processes. Exploit asymmetries. Test options and learn quickly!

Company 11

Company Insurance Content Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Tech-world denizen Jesper Andersen tweeted a similar sentiment: “Change ‘startup’ to ‘hedge fund,’ ‘ecstasy’ to ‘cocaine’, and ‘douche-bag’ to ‘douche bag’ and you too can see SF is just another Wall St.” Tech startups play a critical role both in driving technological innovation forward and in bringing it to market.

Venture Funding 8

Venture Funding Entrepreneur CRM Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. The idea is to create a new and separate division that meets competition while ensuring that new innovations are as minimally disruptive (in the old sense of the world) to the core business as possible.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They are dealing with the environment; successfully making the shift from an infrastructure state to a consumer society; becoming an innovative economy; having a positive impact on the world order; and finally, and perhaps most importantly, making the transition from Xi Jinping’s “Seven No’s” to a more sustainable political model.

Education 8

Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fatigue may be setting in for some Western investors’ interest in African innovation, particularly those that have yet to reap rewards to brag about. Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. Innovation in Distribution. Top of the Pyramid.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

Banking 12

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

Moreover, firms are often investing in venture capital-type organizations with the hope of striking it lucky with a new technology or offer. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy' The venture capital industry has now become fairly large and robust.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Restructuring Short-term 8