Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Northern Command.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

As the editor of the journal Innovations , I'm asked with some regularity, "So, what is innovation anyhow? But one thing is for sure: If you're not pissing someone off, it's probably not innovation.". But one thing is for sure: If you're not pissing someone off, it's probably not innovation.". How would you."?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Well, to continue with Keynes’s analogy, it allowed the high frequency traders to peek at the ballots others were sending in to the newspaper before they arrived, in turn giving them the ability to cast their votes using information not yet available to the rest of the market. Well, it’s becoming increasingly hard to resist that pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Personal savings, insurance, credit, cash transfers from family and friends and other financing mechanisms offer promising opportunities to create security and steady employment but they require a nuanced understanding of product design and the local market conditions in order to be effective.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

But as investors gained access to troves of information through the internet, and made more informed decisions on their own, financial services had no choice but to evolve. Innovating for Value in Health Care. The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

How the most innovative providers are creating value. Consequently, many people, their families, and their physicians resist hospice until all therapeutic options are exhausted. A multipronged approach to financing that involves both care-management fees and shared savings would support replication, scaling, and sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Interestingly, individuals working in customer service, sales, production, logistics and R&D were more likely to feel that bureaucracy was growing than those working in functions like HR, finance, planning, purchasing, and administration. Bureaucracy frustrates innovation. How do you overcome pockets of resistance?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The first is breakdown , where early experiments fade in the face of resistance. Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. Breakthrough Finance. Change must now come from business itself. Breakthrough Science.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Some innovative and determined professionals working in world's largest and most complex corporations are choosing to stay put and use their corporate platforms to lead change. Matt Ellis at CBRE, a global leader in real estate services, is designing financing structures that will provide capital for clients' energy efficiency initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Informal retail and cash purchases are the norm, and that has its risks and costs. Other mobile service operators are also vying to release innovations to help customers pay for things without cash, receive money from abroad, and obtain micro loans and insurance products. Finance Global business Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. Barriers to Transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues' The first report of the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Contribute knowledge and information to the constituencies that you want to build influence with. I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Key for us is to provide valuable information, experience and wisdom and NOT try to sell. What more proof does one need?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Think of the business leaders that have had the biggest positive impact in your life, and I’m sure you’ll find that these individuals were in constant search of new and better information. They use the information acquired through reading in order to inspire, motivate, and lead those around them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

“Organizations need to keep changing, adapting, and innovating,” he says. ” When you find yourself with colleagues who might be interested in your initiative — whether they are close coworkers or people from an entirely different department or division — broach your idea in an informal way. ’ way.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Every vibrant, healthy, inspiring, innovative, and positive corporate culture I’ve witnessed has occurred not because culture has been placed ahead of strategy, but because it has been a key driver of the corporate strategy. I thought, of course culture trumps strategy – culture is whats informs your strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Second, because it’s centralized, which makes it resistant to change and vulnerable to systems failures and attacks. But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. No single party controls the data or the information. Each node stores and forwards information to all other nodes.

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