The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 27, 2019

Read through the tech and business press on any given day and you’re likely bombarded with news about the latest technologies. It’s a mindset that underpins a constant assessment of the technology landscape to see what’s around the corner. In all of this, the customer gets a bit of a cold shoulder.

Innovation 75

Innovation Succession Incubator Business Model 75

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 9, 2024

Whether your passion lies in traditional arts, modern technology, or community services, your business can stand out by blending cultural authenticity with contemporary practices. These businesses can range from traditional crafts and arts to modern technology and service-based companies.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Business Incubator Marketing Strategy Incubator 94

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Working with startups is something many organizations strive to do in order to tap into the innovation and ingenuity such partnerships can bring. Not only do sponsors often regard the incubator as proof of their innovation prowess, but startups often regard acceptance into the incubator as job done.

Incubator 89

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Incentives 89

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

And because companies themselves continue to feel the pressures of all sorts of disruptive forces: competition, more fickle consumers, the adoption of technology, the beating drum of demanding investors. This attribute of adaptability can also lead to innovative thinking and creative problem solving.

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Incubator Skills Education Training 237

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For instance, last year I wrote about the Ocean Discovery XPrize, which had attracted a number of young participants to develop unmanned technologies that are capable of providing high-resolution and rapid mapping of the oceans.

Skills 135

Skills Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Education 135

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 2, 2022

The researchers tracked over 300 entrepreneurs as they launched over 700 technology hardware projects on Kickstarter between 2010 and 2019. This can be especially problematic as one could reasonably expect the second product launch to build on the lessons learned from the first one, often incorporating crucial feedback from the market.

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur Learning Curve Incubator Project 127

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2019

Innovation has scarcely been as popular and trendy as it is today, but as Wired’s David Rowan pithily points out in his latest book, a lot of what passes for innovation is b t smothered in multiple layers of jargon and obfuscation that creates the impression that much is being done, but it’s largely a superficial veneer.

Company 73

Company Incubator Conflict of Interest Metrics 73

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. Susanna Camp is a journalist specializing in emerging technology. We saw something new taking hold a few years ago – San Francisco had usurped Silicon Valley as the new center of tech innovation.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Incubator Open-book Learning-by-Doing 109

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 27, 2021

In total, they quizzed 15,000 or so entrepreneurs who had participated in the Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a bunch of entrepreneurs from the AngelList website. The results can inform interventions that foster innovative entrepreneurship policies and programs.”.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Motivation Incentives Proposal 109

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

” The Kickstarter experiment was then followed up with an analysis of the startups participating in the Technion incubator program in Israel. . “ For that, team members need complementary skills, but they also need to trust in each other.” As before, this revealed the success of hybrid teams.

Skills 130

Skills Team Incubator Brainstorming 130

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. This is the beauty of blockchain technology. Blockchain technology offers an alternative path. Blockchain-Powered Content.

Content 61

Content Decentralization Advertising Incubator 61

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Are we all entrepreneurs now? in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption. Hype run wild.

Venture Capitalist 59

Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Incubator GDP 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Companies and government agencies often make the mistake of viewing innovation as a set of unconstrained activities with no discipline. In reality, for innovation to contribute to a company or government agency, it needs to be designed as a process from start to deployment. As the head of the U.S.

Process 14

Process Innovation Incubator Committee 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones innovating and breaking-down barriers. link] ATIG Dear Mike, "I've found that 90% of problems companies have on-line are created by management, not technology" David Segal Why not E-leader ( participative) for better decision making to do the right thing ? Thanks, Sami impassioned Hi Mike. I Think Not.

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Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow.

Innovation 11

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. Incubate new businesses and models. Go to new places.

Innovation 16

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

By Dave Aron, Global Research Director, Leading Edge Forum, DXC Technology. This is especially important and challenging in the IT and digital domains, because the “artist formerly known as the IT organization” is evolving rapidly as new technologies take hold. To win the talent war, companies need to change.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. Each of these companies, in its own way, is a superior innovator. Innovating from the bottom up. An internal incubator. “The time we spent incubating in Google X was really essential,” Corrado says. IBM invests in research that is often a decade ahead of its time.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

We would examine my stalled plans in order to better understand how people make progress, and more specifically, what leads us to innovate. But in analyzing what I thought were merely stall tactics, I've come to realize that the anxiety caused by procrastination is actually a critical component to innovation. Research supports this.

Innovation 18

Innovation Incubator Business Model Books 18

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Venture Funding Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. Incubate new businesses and models. Go to new places.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Innovation, in word and deed, has been a golden calf of the business world for decades. Now the concept has taken on a second life in the social sector, where a tougher than tough economy has made "innovation" the theoretical one-size fits all answer for every challenge, with little discussion about the associated costs and challenges.

Innovation 15

Innovation Incubator Short-term Godin 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2016

Florentine workshops were communities of creativity and innovation where dreams, passions, and projects could intertwine. Likewise, today’s innovative workplaces need to be equipped with everything people need to turn their insights, inspirations, and mental representations into new products and ventures.

Innovation 8

Innovation Workshop Incubator Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. Access to innovation resources and skills matter far more than money.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Incubator 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. Today, technologies such as social media, smart phones, high-speed data mining, ubiquitously networked electronic devices, etc… have precipitated the collapse of the customer feedback float.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

These three aspects of emerging markets require innovations that can subsequently be taken global — a phenomenon known as " reverse innovation." However, a fourth and powerful driver of reverse innovation is the comparative absence of intermediaries: an institutional gap. Reverse innovation can be sourced in many ways.

Innovation 15

Innovation Health Care Incubator Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Innovative companies have innovative cultures. Think of Google, or of how GE has sustained an innovation culture that goes back to its founding father, Thomas Edison. As mysterious as it can sound, creating a culture of innovation isn’t rocket science. Provide “Worthless” Rewards.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Incubator Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the biggest challenges in health care is how to provide innovative, high technology specialty care while reining in costs at the same time. To date, these innovations have saved an estimated $4 million in annual medical expenses while decisively improving quality. But it needn’t always be.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Your energy and track record of successfully launching high-impact initiatives scored you a plum role heading up innovation. Expectations are high, but some skeptics in the organization feel that innovation is an overhyped buzzword that doesn’t justify being a separate function. Congratulations!

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

Our job is to deliver the cutting-edge technologies they require. And, especially in recent years, as prolonged global economic challenges have rippled through the aerospace industry, we also need to make those technologies more affordable. That requires constant innovation, in both our products and our own operations.

Operations 8

Operations Incubator Engineering Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

Jobs in retail, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture are highly vulnerable to technological change. Another way to redefine the terms of the automation debate is to provide stock to employees, something many of the world’s most innovative companies already do.

Company 11

Company Creativity Retail Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Over the last decade, Tech Square, the eight-square-block area in Midtown designed to facilitate private and public research ventures, has attracted the corporate research centers of 12 Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Panasonic, and Coca-Cola, as well as hundreds of small technology startups. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Incubator 8

Incubator Supply Chain Real Estate Technology 8