The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Creative boost Research from the Hamburg University of Technology suggests that they might also provide our creativity with a boost. Through such analysis, we can identify which interruptions have the potential to enhance innovation and determine the most effective strategies for managing them within organizations.

Supply Chain 114

Supply Chain Incubator Creativity Objective 114

Decker Communication

APRIL 27, 2022

Because our client mix includes many of the largest technology providers and IT adopters, we’ve seen the challenges of Digital Transformation from every angle. The program’s training and coaching helps leaders and managers hone their influence skills in the change management situations that are common to Digital Transformation.

Incubator 105

Incubator Storytelling Agility Training 105

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It features a wide range of startups and larger technology companies and provides a range of visions for the future. Most of these visions feature combinations of data, AI, genomics, wearables and other technologies that are well known to us all. That is, they are well known to us all via their applications in other industries.

Innovation 114

Innovation Technology Incubator Learning-by-Doing 114

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Despite this importance, they’re an often overlooked group, as they’re not considered sufficiently high growth to attract the wide range of VC-led support that fuels accelerators, incubators, and corporate venturing. Indeed, many SMEs pioneer new technologies, products, and services.

Engineering 140

Engineering Innovation Incubator Open-book 140

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 91

Entrepreneur Business Incubator Marketing Strategy Incubator 91

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world. The first business incubator in the U.S. In the last couple of years, we have seen a renaissance in the incubator business. Most of them fail. Many of those efforts failed.

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Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 21

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

Management 3.0 – a psychological shift. In my management 3.0 In this article, my description of management 3.0 In the management 3.0 As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. So what does a Management 3.0

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 12, 2019

Vincent has an extensive experience in marketing, strategy, innovation, project management, telecom and information technologies; as Marketing Manager; deputy R&D director with.

Innovation 89

Innovation Agility Information Technology Marketing Strategy 89

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 60

Content Decentralization Advertising Incubator 60

Innovation Excellence

JUNE 26, 2019

Marine Gall is VP Innovation & Intrapreneurship Programs at Air France, working on innovation, business synergies, transformation, change management, and customer centric items.

Innovation 89

Innovation Case Study Management Incubator 89

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

Early Adopters 60

Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Open-book 60

HR Digest

MARCH 7, 2024

The Chinese national was accused of stealing data related to Google’s AI trade secrets to share with two PRC-Based technology companies and the Justice Department saw this as a blatant theft of advanced technologies and a direct threat to national security. Do not dismiss it as too small to be stolen.

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How To Document Policies Chief Technology Officer 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Have you noticed that general managers are scarce these days? But in many large companies, the only true general manager is the CEO. Everyone else, whether in the C-suite or in the senior management ranks, runs a piece of a business or a support function. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

Management 16

Management P&L Incubator Finance 16

Innovation Excellence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

In recent years, an increasing intensity in collaboration between incumbent companies and startups has been observed. Meanwhile, close to 80% of corporations and startups have already been or are collaborating.

Company 101

Company Business Incubator Incubator Disruptive Innovation 101

Innovation Excellence

APRIL 14, 2020

Conversely, a city with broad, straight avenues (which are efficient in terms of space management and easy to navigate) where one can see all the way to the horizon provides less security. As Scotti notes, this project “is still considered one of the boldest achievements in [the history of] engineering technology.”

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Innovation Long-term Short-term Follow-up 98

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency. These businesses now make up more than half the company.

Business Model 19

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 19

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

They all incubated their business ideas while employed by someone else. Because most managers are simply unbearable. But there is one upside to incompetent management: by failing to attend to their employees' ideas, and continuing to demoralize their staff, bad leaders accidentally stimulate entrepreneurship. but elsewhere.

Leadership 20

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 20

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Perhaps it is here, and not in Americans' two-car garages, where the large early market for advanced battery technology resides. doesn't lack for technology; what it lacks is the imagination and capability to design the strategies and business models of tomorrow. These examples make clear that the U.S. Barring a transformation of U.S.

Incubator 15

Incubator Business Model Mass Marketing Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In the technology world, we’ve seen the tremendous impact that eBay has made in helping small e-commerce businesses get off the ground. Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. Most stagnate.

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Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

The general point is right — a dollar of investment in incrementally improving the core is almost always going to earn a greater near-term return than a dollar invested in a growth business that might take years to incubate. My point to the management team and the board is that the big risk we face is technology obsolescence.

Incubator 15

Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 15

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. Managers lose the automatic right to “own” staff.

Technology 8

Technology Organization Incubator Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta , Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit. According to the Journal of Management , NASA scientists and engineers found that performance increases as deadlines shorten, but when the deadlines became too short, performance declined. How's your book launch coming?" Bob asked me.

Innovation 21

Innovation Incubator Business Model Books 21

LDRLB

APRIL 7, 2014

And I like to share that because I really had no plan and no idea that I was building a platform, but I was one of maybe three or four folks in my niche which was high growth, women’s entrepreneurship focused in the technology arena. So I’m incubating this idea. Really, people who are building big businesses.

Open-book 74

Open-book Influence Books Entrepreneur 74

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

I have interviewed over 100 CEOs, C-suite executives, middle managers, and shop floor workers in more than 25 companies across the world to understand why most companies fail to embed sustainability in their business models and, also, what drives success among the handful that do. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

Incubator 14

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

Innovation 14

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Since then, I've founded a new project and brand within the country's largest progressive think tank and am now working with ambitious social entrepreneurs to develop, experiment with, and incubate new ideas. These are very real questions that social sector CEOs, Presidents and project managers ask themselves daily. Why is this?

Innovation 16

Innovation Incubator Short-term Godin 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. When it comes to the work histories of the other top management team members at the organizations on our list, TFA again stands out.

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Entrepreneur Education McKinsey Sample 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Similarly, Intuit realized over a decade ago that it could not continue to grow as simply a financial software firm and began to consciously create, acquire, and incubate new businesses. The most dangerous trap that any manager can fall into is complacency. These businesses now make up more than half the company.

Business Model 11

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

GE is an icon of management best practices. 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.

Six Sigma 11

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It was only a few years ago that Governor Deval Patrick poured some $58 million into the company and their much-lauded breakthrough solar technology (String Ribbon). By focusing on a straightforward insight: truly transformative industrial changes aren't driven by technologies replacing technologies , but by systems replacing systems.

Disruptive Innovation 12

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Medtronic is exploring ways to address that void in the area of chronic disease management. But innovation in managing chronic disease is happening faster in emerging markets such as India as a result of the scarcity of physicians. Sixty-nine percent of deaths in the developing world are due to chronic disease, yet only 2.3%

Innovation 15

Innovation Health Care Incubator Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Palmisano warned against prioritizing shareholders or other constituents, calling this "a false choice," and explaining that "Long-term management is a serious challenge in a world driven by short-term thinking. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Directness.

Globalization 18

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Perhaps not surprisingly, managers of mega corporations remain largely unsold on that notion. Certainly, that's a fair accusation. Let's start with the human side.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Innovation Intellectual Capital Mission Statement 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. Be it skills training, R&D grants, or startup incubators, Europe has experience developing entrepreneurship ecosystems in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere, including the very places immigrants are fleeing. But it is much more than that.

Incubator 15

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Over the years I have learned the hard way that technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness. It is the incubator for future bursts of creativity. Managing yourself' You can’t do creative work at a cyber pace. Creative work has its traditional rhythms. I need quiet time to be able to function.”.

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Incubator Creativity Learning-by-Doing Information 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At The Data Incubator, we’ve talked to dozens of employers looking to hire data scientists from our training program, from large corporates like Pfizer and JPMorgan Chase to smaller tech startups like Foursquare and Upstart. Unfortunately, most hiring managers conflate the types of talent and temperament necessary for these roles.

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Incubator Metrics Information Technology Analysis 14