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 Entrepreneur 114

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2018

To increase the innovative output of business, especially the output of sustainable technologies, requires pushes and nudges along the edges. Business leaders clearly have a role to play in driving innovative new sustainable technologies that disrupt current markets. Time is of the essence.

Incubator 138

Incubator Disruptive Innovation Leadership Innovation 138

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

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.

Incubator 18

Incubator Business Incubator Real Estate Venture Capitalist 18

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

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.

How To 52

How To Document Policies Chief Technology Officer 52

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

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 ? We must slow down the technology speed and its consequences. Can manager be leaders?

Leadership 419

Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

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

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

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 15

Management P&L Incubator Finance 15

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 2, 2015

It should have been a prime area for entrepreneurial activity: It had a solid technology infrastructure and a substantial population of 25-to-44-year-olds—many of whom were engineering or computer-science graduates—as well as a large local consumer market. ” she asked, with exasperation. ” Conrad asked.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

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 Innovation 60

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 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

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.

Business Incubator 9

Business Incubator Incubator Company Merchandising 9

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 11

Incubator How To Real Estate Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2018

So we can expect that, in addition to formal mergers and acquisitions, the M&A of the future will consist of a potpourri of joint ventures, minority investments, alliances and incubator-type investments—anything that helps keep the relevant people on board and productive—which sounds very similar to Rockefeller’s strategy.

Incubator 8

Incubator Insurance Cost of Capital Competitive Advantage 8

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 16

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

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

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

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 13

Incubator Business Model Competitive Advantage Short-term 13

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 9

Six Sigma Incubator Payback Period Ries 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Third, hardware entrepreneurs in some cities can now access a sophisticated supporting infrastructure, including a sizable ecosystem of hardware “studios,” incubators, accelerators, and service-providers that has grown up to abet start-ups in dozens of cities from Austin to Providence to Miami.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

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 17

Leadership GDP Entrepreneur Incubator 17

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 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Apple fuses technology with design. An internal incubator. “The time we spent incubating in Google X was really essential,” Corrado says. “We could advance the core technology without being tied to a particular product. ” The result of that incubation period was an actual product.

Innovation 8

Innovation Incubator Learning-by-Doing Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That means that 70% of acquisitions of firms in the technology sector over the past three years have been made by organizations outside of it.

Company 8

Company Price Business Model Technology 8

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 11

Incubator Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies 11

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 9

Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. At The Data Incubator , we work with hundreds of clients who hire PhD data scientists from our fellowship program or enroll their employees in our big data corporate training.

Training 8

Training Learning Curve Incubator Long-term 8

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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In research for our book, Time, Talent and Energy, my co-author Michael Mankins and I found that such investments do indeed pay off: The top-quartile companies in our study unlocked 40% more productive power in their workforce through better practices in time, talent and energy management. For knowledge workers, time is incredibly scarce.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Then I read Clay Christensen and Joe Bower's 1995 article "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave" in HBR. This process leaves companies vulnerable to competitors who develop new forms of technology that initially fail to serve the "best" customers well, but quickly improve.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

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.”.

Incubator 14

Incubator Creativity Learning-by-Doing Information 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

federal research investments enabled the invention of the magnetic storage drive, lithium-ion batteries, and liquid crystal display technologies that paved the way for the next generation of consumer electronics in the 1980s and 1990s, the U.S. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion.

Innovation 11

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. .” We’ve all had to adapt.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology. A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size. It has managed to combine international standards with African tastes. A realistic approach to making money might strike some as humdrum.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Hotels Entrepreneur Incubator 8