The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 5, 2024

Digital technology is playing an increasingly important role in the employee evaluation process, with performance analysis apps allowing employees to review their colleagues. “So when we merge these trends of social connectedness, instant communication, and use of technology, we come up with this wonderful application.”

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360-Degree Feedback Review Middle Management Comparison 117

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2021

The author cites the example of middle managers who don’t really know what their team is working on but have to talk to their boss about it nonetheless. The paper cites the number of AI “experts” that have emerged as the technology has hit the mainstream. Negative consequences.

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Middle Management Uncertainty Entrepreneur Reference 78

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

  Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility.   Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility.

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Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

 As listed above The Conference Board's mission statement provides a clear purpose for existence and its carefully defined values of relevance, openness, collaboration, innovation, and integrity provide crystal clear guidance on how it will execute this mission.

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Conference Human Resources Human Capital White Paper 133

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 30, 2010

Our guests have embraced collaboration and innovation that impacts the way we all do business both now and in the future. Our guests have embraced collaboration and innovation that impacts the way we all do business both now and in the future.  Saying that Bryan is involved in the HR profession is a bit of an understatement!

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Human Resources Blog Resources Welch 124

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

Each morning you will be delivered a handful of stories on a variety of leadership topics such as strategic management, innovation, employee development and succession planning, managing in a global economy, and sustaining a competitive edge - just to name a few.

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Leadership Human Resources Mission Statement Blog 113

Center for Creative Leadership

APRIL 5, 2019

I recently conducted a leadership development program for middle managers and asked the participants why they were there. This may take some creativity and innovation on your part. How can you use e-learning and technology to stretch and enhance your development efforts? Clarify why participants are in the program.

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Leadership Development Development Succession Leadership 87

Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

So far Peters has posted close to 20 videos that explore a variety of ways to pursue excellence both personally and professionally including servant leadership, personal branding, innovation, performance management, and thriving during the recession - just to name a few.   Not big on online video?

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Video Human Resources Blog Resources 100

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Just the mention of “middle managers” is enough to make people’s eyes roll back. But these supposedly boring cogs of the corporation, these objects of derision in Dilbertland, can have a profound impact on innovation and performance. For example, think of the middle manager (yourself, perhaps?)

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Middle Management Innovation Management Creativity 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. doubled from 20% to 40% between July and December 2013, and has stayed at that level since. Change leaders work across boundaries.

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Middle Management Six Sigma Taylor Taylorism 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Just the mention of "middle managers" is enough to make people''s eyes roll back. But these supposedly boring cogs of the corporation, these objects of derision in Dilbertland, can have a profound impact on innovation and performance. If the organization isn''t being innovative, the solution must be structural.

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Middle Management Innovation Management Creativity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices.

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Talent Management Technology Process Management 14

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Similar to the government’s existing ‘Help to Grow: Management’ scheme, the programme would subsidise leaders in small firms to undertake an intensive course covering everything from adopting digital technology to sourcing new potential markets.”

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Learning-by-Doing Policies Article Skills 121

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption.

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Management Health Care Middle Management Agility 22

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

New networks and innovative analytics gave top management greater visibility into Procter's people, processes, and anticipated profits. These technologies were making the world's biggest consumer products firm quicker, nimbler, and more responsive. I couldn't help myself. McDonald's P&G sliced from the pyramid's peak.

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Micromanagement Management CIO Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Innovation is always infectious. But our recent research has taught us a lot about how management innovations can travel — in this case, from Silicon Valley tech sector companies known for their experimentation and agility in information technology (IT) management to the much older Bay Area companies who are their neighbors.

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Innovation CIO Agility Venture Capitalist 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

To guide companies in innovative ways, boards must know what innovative looks like. It's no news to confirm that technology companies — such as Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Dell, HP, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Oracle — have boards awash in digital expertise. It's clear the tide is turning — and it's turning fast.

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Retail CEO Health Care Middle Management 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company. At the same time, they have experienced frustration with some of the structure and requirements that a $137 billion firm has to have in place to manage risk and scale.

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Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

What if this model existed on a larger scale to help staff innovation and growth strategy initiatives for big business? I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy. Executing on Innovation. Special Series.

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Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

They are essential for suggesting, developing, and sustaining innovative new projects and for helping companies stay competitive. In fact, many face obstacles when trying to innovate in their organizations. For example, pushing for change without being told to can ignite resistance from supervising managers and fellow colleagues.

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Middle Management Management Performance Review Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2018

If you knew about a technology that would help you improve organizational alignment, cut meeting times, and increase engagement in discussions, surely you’d use it all the time, right? The openness and focused attention among team members fostered by videoconferencing enables innovation and creative solutions to emerge.

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Conference Commitment Rogers Tools 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Brad Power is a consultant and researcher in process innovation. This approach addresses the many shortcomings of our previous initiatives.".

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

The globalization of talent and technology frees up companies to experiment with new ways of filling critical skill gaps while staying lean. ” While cost is clearly a consideration, managers describe the primary benefits of agile talent as increasing flexibility, speed, and innovation. We call this phenomenon agile talent.

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Management Agility Middle Management After Action Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

It means embracing a new culture and mindset, where hierarchy fades and innovation happens through networks. Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

A number of cities, in particular, have become hotbeds of innovation, in no small part because of the fiscal strains they face. which is spurring rank-and-file workers to view themselves as innovators — a tough thing for many corporations to get right. The first is exemplified by South Bend, Ind.,

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Drucker Katz Innovation Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

They all use the same words, such as “respect,” “teamwork,” and “innovation.” ” Notice that these questions do not ask exactly what that purpose is, whether it is to save the environment, advance human health, push the technological frontier, or provide cheap and efficient energy for all.

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Company Middle Management Survey Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

With these rules in place, 8 cross-functional teams—each composed of middle managers, a consultant guide, and a sponsor from the leadership team—were formed. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology.

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CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. For instance, think of all the zigzags in strategic direction the old Hewlett Packard took as it went through four CEOs in a decade: first, the focus was on technology innovation, then it was on growth through acquisitions, and then on efficiency.

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Welch Six Sigma Real Estate Learning-by-Doing 8

Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Steve Boese of Steve Boese’s HR Technology shows how quickly small acorns can grow into the mighty oaks of an ‘A’ Team in Quick – Send in the ‘B’ Team Michael Lee Stallard entices us to take a break on our tour …er, journey…. and ponder The Pride Paradox. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Leadership McCarthy Gilbert Sample 244

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

Yet, according to Donald Sull’s research in the March issue of HBR, almost half of top executives cannot connect the dots between their company’s strategic priorities; and two out of three middle managers say they simply do not understand their strategic direction. This is a subtle, but important nuance.

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Strategy Balanced Scorecard Sull Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

General Motors has made significant progress with its autonomous technology; Mercedes and BMW have partnered for shared mobility solutions; and all manufacturers have announced plans for electrification of their models. Unsurprisingly, autonomous driving technology and where Tesla stands relative to competitors are frequently discussed.

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Planning Marketing Long-term Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In almost every sector, there are once-dominant enterprises that find themselves on the wrong side of a shift in customer demand or the emergence of a disruptive technology. I wanted value-focused employees who were willing and able to drive an innovative, sophisticated experience for customers.". You know their names: Hewlett-Packard.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Jim Taggart presents The Rise of Tiger Business Women posted at ChangingWinds , saying, "At present rates, it will take about 150 years before women and men are equally likely to reach middle management. And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management".

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. What do leaders often get wrong when they think of innovation ? Many of them have little understanding of what innovation actually means.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 78

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. Many CEOs talked about the importance of having diverse teams at all levels of the company – from the frontlines to middle management to senior leadership.

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