The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The study explores the Chinese market after the country’s Ministry of Justice made online legal services a key part of its strategy. Given this context, a recent study exploring the role of online marketplaces in the legal profession is particularly interesting.

Budgeting 40

Budgeting Participative Marketing Operations 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It has also been acquiring e-commerce niche players, including Shoebuy and outdoor gear retailer Moosejaw, and digital technology companies, such as search experts Adchemy and cloud platform OneOps. Walmart does need to shore up its e-commerce capabilities, but its attempts to out-Amazon Amazon aren’t a winning strategy.

IT Strategy 15

IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Today's CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence. Many next-generation technology leaders will still come from traditional tech backgrounds, but business leaders with a technology bent will also have a shot.

CIO 17

CIO Chief Information Officer Budgeting Technology 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Almost every discussion of innovation today inevitably turns to the topic of “disruption.” Academics write about the power of disruptive innovation to transform one industry after another. Consultants have set up practices to focus specifically on helping companies become disruptive innovators. How has this strategy worked?

Innovation 11

Innovation Disruptive Innovation Venture Capitalist Depreciation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

The strategic underpinnings of most companies’ workforce plans should change dramatically as a result of technological innovation. ” Beyond the skills required to perform specific jobs, technology will also determine which jobs matter most in the years to come. Take insurance, for example.

Company 16

Company Insurance Engineering Software 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used. Should Google revise its strategy to pursue that opportunity? Some emphasize the importance of sticking to innovations adjacent to a firm’s core business.

Strategy 14

Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2018

I don’t think I’ve learned more about strategy, technology, and culture from any other company I’ve studied. Netflix is a technology juggernaut whose analytics, algorithms, and digital-streaming innovations have changed how customers watch movies and TV shows. Strategy is culture, culture is strategy.

Technology 15

Technology Sharpe Strategy Content 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

By that he means that all the things a business does — not just its logo and visuals, but also its strategy, call to action, customer service, communications with customers, and people — combine to determine what it stands for. Dan's smart observation is that "Brand is everything, and everything is brand."

Brand 16

Brand Positioning Marketing Products 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered. Directness.

Globalization 18

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

My last post talked about how a little-known company , Grace Manufacturing, took a flexible and opportunistic approach to its strategy when its core business faltered. Adam Richardson, a Creative Director at global innovation firm frog design , is the author of Innovation X: Why a Company's Toughest Problems are its Greatest Advantage.

Strategy 15

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2013

Increasingly, the CIO and IT must be seen less as merely developing and deploying technology, and more as a source of innovation and transformation that delivers business value, leveraging technology instead of directly delivering it. Define Your Strategy. This means a lot of change for enterprise IT organizations.

CIO 9

CIO Hamel Technology Tactics 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace.

Competitive Advantage 9

Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

Stay secure and boost innovation. Adopt emerging technologies, while weighed down by the past. Today, however, technology innovation is creating a drastic change — across all major industries — in the way customers want to interact with their suppliers. Be strategic and operational. Grow blended executives.

CIO 9

CIO Technology Storytelling Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing? To maintain strategic alignment, a company’s people, culture, structure and processes have to flex and change as the strategy itself shifts.

Banking 15

Banking Strategy Film IPO 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Overall, we found that more than half of our survey respondents have adopted OSS solutions as part of their IT strategy. Nearly a third of respondents now cite benefits of flexibility, increased innovation, shorter development times, and faster procurement processes. To find out, we surveyed 547 IT leaders in 11 countries.

Software 16

Software Tips Licensing Survey 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Differentiation increasingly requires more innovative thinking, and the use of very specific areas of expertise (like Apple’s winning design, a capability that wouldn’t have been prioritized in most technology companies before Jobs). This is ever more important today, where differentiating your company is so difficult.

Execution 16

Execution Strategy How To Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

PFK is now working on expanding its strategy to address the health needs of children with disabilities. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention. whether someone is employed and his or her earnings over time). In pediatrics, CMS has funded PFK with a $13.1

Health Care 14

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Redbox, the innovator whose DVD dispenser machine rents DVDs for $1 per day, had also grown quite rapidly. By not over-reacting and instead allowing those consumers to walk away, Hastings was able to keep his company focused on its strategy of value-added services and avoid the distraction of a price war.

P&L 15

P&L Supply Chain Retail Price 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose.

Strategy 15

Strategy Company How To Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

For over 50 years, Wal-Mart has pursued essentially the same strategy of “offering the lowest price so its customer can live better.” Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. How Boards Can Innovate.

Company 10

Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

This all sounds splendidly disruptive: new technology-enabled social media redefining what we think of as sport. But the real benefit for Vans was that its strategy made the sport mainstream and opened it up to the masses, which ultimately had huge benefits for its core shoes and clothing businesses. Innovation Strategy'

Industry 10

Industry Sports Advertising Strategy 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2018

That digital focus helped Adidas reshape its strategy for today’s mobile, more empowered consumer. The brand embraces data and technology as a way to be faster and smarter in a world where marketers are competing for consumer attention in the moment. ” Data-Driven Growth in a Digital World. ” Read More. .

Content 8

Content Brand Storytelling Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Unlike a startup company, which is supposed to play with alternative strategies until the right one emerges, a midsize firm already has a strategy that is working. Sure, it must always consider whether to adjust that strategy in the face of new competition, changing customer demand, technological innovation or all three.

Strategy 10

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Told this way, the Kodak story is a comforting caricature of the traditional failure to adapt to disruptive technological change. The nature of disruption is changing. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology. But with the infrastructure and discipline in place, the company needed a leader who could drive innovation-based growth.

Strategic Fit 9

Strategic Fit Rogers CEO Strategy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. The second type, known as adaptive performance , is how effectively your organization diverges from its strategy. Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship.

Organization 15

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. ” Instead of lean innovation programs, there is a mandate to cut $2 billion in expenses by the end of next year, lift profits, and raise the dividend. Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. The Playbook is a policy menu, based around three core needs of small businesses: access to capital; people and skills; and innovation ecosystems.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2016

As United Rentals, the largest equipment rentals company, shifted its strategy to focus more on national customer accounts, it faced a huge forgetting challenge; branch managers needed to forget the fiefdom mentality. Above all, don’t ignore this challenge as you try to innovate your way to a new model.

Company 8

Company Licensing Incentives Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2015

Their innovation efforts tend to be focused wholly on the creation of new value; meanwhile, the question of how exactly they will be compensated for it usually goes unexamined. Deterring new providers: A professional event technology firm offers rock-bottom quotes to special events to signal its pricing power to any potential new entrants.

Balanced Scorecard 8

Balanced Scorecard Company Price KPI 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Capitec gets many things right in terms of its strategy, including its market positioning, internal operations, and organizational culture. Gerrie Fourie, its current CEO, called it “innovating around frustrations.” Yet three things stand out that enable it to grow and prosper. Resisting revenue temptations.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

While every other player in the electric car space was focused on innovating individual pieces — vehicles, batteries, charge spots — Better Place''s strategy was unique in innovating the larger puzzle to deliver an affordable drive-anywhere, anytime solution. Innovation Strategy Transportation'

Mass Marketing 10

Mass Marketing Transportation Depreciation Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants a preliminary framework in place by the end of this summer, with a final set of guidelines ready to go in February 2014. Government Information & technology Risk management' The response to today''s cyber threats can''t be limited to Washington.

Cooper 9

Cooper CIO Risk Management Telecommunications 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Innovative new hospital designs have changed patients’ experiences and expectations of what a hospital should be. Roger Ulrich, a visiting professor at Center for Healthcare Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, has been a thought leader in the evidence-based design movement for 30 years.

Ulrich 8

Ulrich Hotels Health Care Cost 8