Skip Prichard

APRIL 29, 2024

Leadership in the storm Imagine you’re on a boat. Oleg Konovalov’s vision of leadership doesn’t come from textbooks. Oleg’s journey from the deck of a fishing trawler to the forefront of leadership is a tale of transformation. Leadership, Oleg argues, is similar. It’s decision time.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Thinking long-term has led this retailer’s CEO to investigate real estate purchases at lower rates and to buy up high-end equipment now while the prices are low.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. What are your responsibilities?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. It’s a relationship-building tool — that’s why there’s an “r” in it — and it’s one of your only opportunities to put real effort and resources toward developing your network of relationships. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones. The lesson is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. Core Competencies. Running design sprints.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This should go without saying, but it’s vitally important to develop relationships with the CEO, business unit leaders, and other key executives to understand the company’s strategy, so that the innovation approach and projects you pursue align with overall corporate goals. There may be a backlog of ideas waiting to be developed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

As Angela Ahrendts , Burberry''s CEO puts it : "I need [IT] to move from the back of the bus, where it traditionally sits, to the front of the bus.and it''s traveling fast." It requires strong leadership from all senior IT executives, as well as new business acumen. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. ” Schwarz adds: “You don’t need to be the person’s mentor, but you need to help the person develop.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In a previous post , I described the shift in roles as ING, the Netherlands bank, moves from a traditional method of developing new systems in major steps — with design documents and functional specifications thrown over the wall — to making quick, small changes to systems (using "Agile Scrum"). IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

And because organizational change tends to be driven by those who most acutely feel the pain, it’s often line managers who are the strongest champions for “talent tech”: innovations in how firms hire people, staff projects, evaluate performance, and develop talent. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. It also requires us to learn from the organization''s past successes and failures in developing a rich portfolio of tools that''s strategically aligned to the community''s needs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. As Harvard Business School Professor Linda A.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. So she wrote a memo to the CEO explaining why gender balance is good for business. This led to the HR VP brokering a meeting with the CEO and an invitation to make a formal presentation to the Executive Committee.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Leadership risk: Psychology has found that "for most people, the fear of losing $100 is more intense than the hope of gaining $150", and IT leaders are no exception. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing. IT often fails to step up to its leadership role, identifying instead with "aligned with the business."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In some big companies, the CEO takes on all the top titles — chairman, president, and CEO — and scatters authority over an array of divisional and functional heads or appoints a trio of vice chairmen. In fact, some CEOs don't want a strong number two, perhaps finding it threatening that they could be surpassed.

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