The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Each year INSEAD and WIPO team up to produce the Global Innovation Index , which aims to rank nations according to their innovative capacity and outputs. At the heart of the rankings are various institutions and institutional factors that the researchers believe underpin good innovation. Starting from a low base. Data colonies.

Succession 84

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 84

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

Leaders in various industries, such as telecommunications and sports, often employ these narratives to create a compelling story of overcoming adversity and achieving success against the odds. However, Apple’s commitment to innovation and its collective underdog identity revolutionized the way people interact with technology.

Motivation 52

Motivation Team Telecommunications Apparel 52

Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics. To give a couple of examples: in the more classic, regulated utilities industries such as electricity, gas, water, telecommunications, regulations on pricing or on competition can have immediate impact on value.

Company 50

Company Competitive Advantage Open-book Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. The innovator's job is now to create wins across the board. MORE ON KNOCKING DOWN BARRIERS TO INNOVATION.

Innovation 16

Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting in the 1970s, the country's ability to create low-cost, quality products helped them dominate key industries, such as automobiles, telecommunications, and consumer electronics. As Fujio Ando, senior managing director at Chibagin Asset Management suggests, "Japan's consumer electronics industry is facing defeat.

Six Sigma 21

Six Sigma Kaizen Govindarajan Telecommunications 21

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

Innovation 14

Innovation Short-term Telecommunications Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Cisco's clever little camcorder collapse provides picture-perfect insight into a pervasive innovation pathology: Ignoring — or disrespecting — the obvious. The company knew digital devices were all becoming telecommunications tools. Novel subtlety and nuance can be wonderful but my innovation heart belongs to obvious.

Wireless 14

Wireless Management Telecommunications Core Competence 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not rising costs.

Talent Management 10

Talent Management Company Telecommunications Management 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If someone you manage is complaining to you about the amount of grunt work they have, you need to figure out a way to help them get over their frustration and see that everyone on the team has grunt work they have to do, and also learn to manage their time so that they don’t short-change higher-value activities.

Team 15

Team Management Constraint How To 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.

Competitive Advantage 17

Competitive Advantage Leadership Talent Management Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We call this phenomenon reverse innovation — any innovation that is adopted first in the developing world, and then later in the developed world. Surprisingly, such innovations defy gravity and flow uphill from the poor to the rich. Reverse innovation will become more and more common. Phase 3: Local Innovation.

Glocalization 16

Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.

Short-term 17

Short-term Guidelines Mass Marketing Telecommunications 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. I would guess 90% of all managers believe in their ability to undertake professional interviews.

CIO 16

CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

But most true collaborations cannot be controlled with fixed terms that are defined in advance — they must be managed through relational contracts that allow you to respond flexibly to new information. Their challenge then is to learn how to manage these partnerships differently than the vendor relationships they had before.

Software 19

Software Licensing Long-term Telecommunications 19

Innovation Excellence

MAY 27, 2017

It’s safe to say that growing your business takes more than time and passion; it also requires a sizeable amount of capital to get it going. This can get pretty expensive, especially if you’re planning to move into a new country. Thankfully, advances in technology and the Internet have made it easier than ever to save.

Globalization 61

Globalization Cost Technology Planning 61

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives. Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

Books 15

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Apple is certainly known for its strong preference for internal innovation. There is clear empirical evidence to back this up: in our research of about 150 firms in the telecommunications industry, we found that the more successful firms all took this active approach to managing their capability and resource portfolios.

Software 15

Software Telecommunications Short-term Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

However, Nokia ran into trouble by underestimating the speed at which technological developments in the United States, pioneered by rivals such as Apple, are transforming the mobile telecommunications business. Haiyan Wang is the managing partner of the China India Institute.

Globalization 15

Globalization Marketing Venture Capitalist Biotechnology 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

Price 15

Price Retail Comparison Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Data-driven managers, departments, and organizations have always enjoyed distinct advantages. But they are nothing compared to the challenges of defining and managing the processes to link data from (disparate) cost and revenue centers, conduct the analyses, and renegotiate contracts. Invest in people. Strive to empower all with data.

Organization 16

Organization Telecommunications McKinsey Price 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

NGO 15

NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Bharti is the largest telecommunications services provider in India. In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. Bharti looks nothing like other telecoms. In the U.S.,

Outsourcing 13

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

But DJI is testament to China’s transformation from copycat to high tech innovation. As the example of DJI demonstrates, Chinese companies are busy innovating based on three valuable and difficult-to-imitate advantages that will allow them to compete effectively with, and, in some areas, even overtake their Western rivals.

Innovation 8

Innovation Engineering Business Model Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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Guidelines 15

Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the mid-90s as CEO of Medtronic, I was concerned about whether we could sustain the remarkable success in innovation that we had enjoyed during the previous 10 years. This process of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories. Nevertheless, we steadfastly supported the venture.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. As I think about companies that compete on consistent, low cost, reliable operations, most have or had leaders who were process innovators, such as Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines, Sam Walton at Wal-Mart, Ray Kroc at McDonalds, Jeff Bezos at Amazon.com, and Fred Smith at FedEx.

Process 15

Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In a downbeat tone the manager of a fast-growing healthcare provider rattled off a list of reasons that her company was turning into a numbers-driven organization: Industry regulations required it, Medicare reimbursement policies required it, and delivering specialized services required yet another form of quantitative analysis.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Strategy Telecommunications Software 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

This infrastructure sits on top of a publicly available substructure of assets and resources — telecommunications and the Internet, for example. It embodies the long tail realities of major business and technology decisions, resulting in an IT department struggling to manage multiple costly and incompatible infrastructures.

CIO 12

CIO Technology Telecommunications Information Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

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Banking 18

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves.

Guidelines 15

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. For example, if you make crowdsourced innovation a core capability, you have to integrate it with marketing functions that take care of customers. But that's a good thing.

Media 12

Media McKinsey Supply Chain Telecommunications 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

VC fund managers in Mexico are still learning how to achieve trust with our investors, the limited partners (LPs). In Mexico, in the innovative sectors that entrepreneurs usually enter — mobile technology, branchless banking, housing for rural or semi-urban areas, basic services such as water, telecommunications, education, etc.

Industry 12

Industry Telecommunications Incentives Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

The phenomenon of fast-track CEO succession appears to be most prominent in the retail, technology, media, and telecommunications sectors—all of which are particularly affected by disruptive business models and new competitors. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

CEO 15

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2013

When it comes to innovation in industries with strategically narrow windows of opportunities, speed is everything. This quickening pace — what academics and journalists have called innovation on steroids — is beginning to reach IT departments. Innovations were virtually prevented by stifling complexity.

Technology 9

Technology CIO Agility Software 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Innovations like Amazon price checks, or changes to healthcare or shipping enabled by mobile phones, are becoming commonplace. Organizations need to enhance their design and capabilities to survive and stay competitive in a world where innovation matters more. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications Innovation Technology Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. Today, managers add value by brokering with people, not by presiding over empires.”. In this gap between ordered worlds almost anything may happen.”. Lawrence A. billion to $11.7

Leadership 10

Leadership Telecommunications Education Consensus 10