Skip Prichard

MARCH 24, 2021

I’ve spoken with Scott McKain , my guest on this week’s episode of “Aim Higher,” many times—both because he’s a friend and because he says so many things that resonate with me and with my own philosophies of leadership and personal development. You can’t be iconic without first being distinctive.

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Loyalty Software Industry Reference 142

Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

Agile was originally a software technique, meant to shorten software development times and make the development team more accountable to customer needs. There’s agile marketing, introduced by thought leaders at CMG. Or what about being more “agile.” From there, everyone is adopting the concept of “agile.” Maneuver Strategy.

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Agility Attrition Innovation Market Segmentation 150

Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

When a business is driven by AI, software instructions, and algorithms make up the critical path in the way the firm delivers value.” As it grows, a business can usually deliver more value at a cheaper price. And this is especially important in a leadership context. In a traditional business, size is a double-edged sword.

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Operations Industry Learning-by-Doing Automotive 291

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We all have personal styles that drive our leadership images. To your team, your work in these areas is every bit as important as how you manage your company’s brand and market share. While some might rail at learning a new software program, they’ll respect you for sitting down to train with the tech crew alongside everyone else.

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Objective Airlines Learning-by-Doing Ethics 244

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2021

The appointment itself could be scheduled by an AI-driven system in much the same way that pharmacies use software to send automated calls and texts when a patient needs a refill. The patient will reap the benefits of efficient and smart healthcare and the startup will reap the rewards of the market. Automated Data Collection.

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Efficiency Innovation Banking Creativity 86

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 22, 2014

Small business owners surveyed by eVoice similarly reported being habitually distracted from their primary function by tasks such as accounting, receptionist work and office management, marketing, and sales. The most essential time management technology for increasing your productivity is calendar scheduling software. Accounting.

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Tools Productivity Products Company 133

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The following tips will ensure you are ready to pay the price of success. Just because you have hired the best possible people for every leadership role in your company doesn’t mean they are all going to get along all the time. Upgrade your software and systems. Expect conflict.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Now it looks like our services revenue will be higher than that generated from software product sales by the end of the year. Professional services have become a commodity in most industries and this has resulted in competitive pricing. Value is comprised of service, quality and price. Perception is how others view us.

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Information Technology Self-aware Software Industry 70

Six Disciplines

APRIL 12, 2013

to be the leader in the accounting software market.” Over the years, we learned we needed to be more specific in terms of defining our leadership. What types of leadership did we want (full services, price, convenience)? In what markets (type of company, geography, etc.) did we want to lead?

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Open-book Commitment Software Definition 91

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

Strategy Driven

JUNE 25, 2014

Buying anything, from a shirt to a company, a training program or a piece of software, is a change management activity. Using only the sales model or marketing, a seller has no place at the table until it’s time to choose a solution. Relate Articles: How Sales, Marketing and Social Can Facilitate the Decision Path.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. When insurers or health care providers have to battle one another to attract customers, they must differentiate themselves by charging lower prices or providing better service.

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Glean These 19 Ideas & Tips to Skyrocket Your Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Victoria Greene , an ecommerce brand marketing consultant, freelance writer, and small business owner with a pulse on the future of online selling. Also, see if the market looks like it's trending in the right direction for your idea.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Consider Adobe’s new content-marketing strategy. Several years ago the company’s mainstay business of graphics applications was struggling against new competition, including free software. Dubbed the Marketing Cloud, this new platform would enable websites to show the right images to the right customers at the right time.

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Content Marketing B2C Early Adopters 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

Thoughtfully managed, recommendations can prove far more valuable to marketers than for the customers they ostensibly serve. Recommendation engines not only generate useful data for analyzing customer desires; they can be harnessed to make tactical and strategic recommendations for marketers. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Engineering Marketing Advertising Brand Management 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1.

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

Leadership Role #1: Reading the World and Creating a Vision. Therefore, one of the most important competencies of leadership is the ability to read the world. Therefore, one of the most important competencies of leadership is the ability to read the world. No business is an island. Bill Gates had a different story.

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Chief Executive Officer Competitive Advantage Open-book Analysis 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Though we enjoy writing about dropout tech legends, most times their success is catalyzed by others — they came up with the ideas and the investors provided the leadership and the non-tech factors (such as pricing models, branding, and promotions, among others) that propelled them to stardom. You can't resell that CD, legally.

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Licensing Software Automotive Incubator 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The third move is the "hidden gem," which can be illustrated with the integrative move performed by Bob Young after he co-founded Red Hat Software in 1995. The first was Red Hat's own model and that of its many 'free software' competitors. The minuses: acquisition costs were high for users and they couldn't customize the software.

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Business Model Software Price Licensing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Its market value of $46 billion (as of June 2015) is larger than that of Uber, Snapchat, or even Palantir. Last year, Xiaomi overtook Samsung to become the leader in the Chinese market. It sells smartphones comparable to Samsung’s high-end models at prices that are 30-50% lower.

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Price Globalization Business Model Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Letting food go to waste, then, is a frivolous use of natural resources that drives up costs, inflates food prices, and weakens the food supply chain. However, their high volume–low margin business model also makes them vulnerable to threats such as competition, increasing wholesale prices, and changing consumer demands.

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. Why does it have that characteristic? Insight Center.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Henderson Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

” These shifts have profound implications for leadership and culture. And don’t delegate purpose to marketing. ” Discount retailer: “ Making our customers’ lives better through lower prices, greater selection, and higher value.” Creating leadership energy is an inside job.

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Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Starting July 1st — the beginning of the company's fiscal year 2013 — the software giant will charge all of its 100-plus global offices and datacenters a fee for every ton of carbon they produce (mostly from plugging into the electric grid, so-called "indirect" emissions). Risk reduction. But executives weren't charged real money.

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Price P&L White Paper Energy 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

True platform innovators aren’t just market matchmakers using data-driven algorithms to drive better buyer-seller matches; they invest in new value creation. In platform markets, cultivating user capability becomes as strategically important as reducing transaction costs. What really makes them work? Sponsored by Accenture.

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IPO Human Capital Insurance Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Several years ago we came up with a great idea for a new leadership-development offering we thought would be valuable to everyone. We developed a software application to offer that sort of encouragement. We developed a software application to offer that sort of encouragement. Decision making Leadership development'

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Due Diligence Software Analysis Leadership Development 13

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

As I described in my last post , your prospective customers and buyers increasingly learn about you from their peers — including your current customers — while tending more and more to ignore traditional sales and marketing communications from corporate. They're entirely price sensitive. Give them a say.

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Social Capital Review Software Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company created impressive digital capabilities, labeling itself a “digital industrial” company, embedding sensors into many products, building a huge new software platform for the Internet of Things, and transforming business models for its industrial offerings.

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Technology Business Model CEO Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

. “If you went to bed last night as an industrial company,” Immelt observed, “you are going to wake up this morning as a software and data analytics company.” Pursuing cost leadership versus differentiating for value. Leadership is changing — fast. Manage costs — or add value? Insight Center.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

At VoloMetrix, we recently studied the sales force of a large B2B software company using six quarters of quota attainment data for a several thousand employees. People analytics can help organizations learn more about what behaviors differentiate their most successful salespeople. We expected to have two phases to the study.

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Succession B2B Metrics Uncertainty 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Investors and lenders are betting on the company’s long-term potential to dominate a future that may feature autonomous vehicles, sustainable energy consumption, and the ability to upgrade easily as both hardware and software evolve. If that potential isn’t realized, the money will quickly dry up. For now, Tesla has none of these.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

However, during her tenure, Bartz engaged in many efforts to increase Yahoo's stock price , grow earnings, and placate investors. And for the vast majority of her tenure, Yahoo's stock price and earnings were higher than the period immediately before she took over. Christensen's theory, however, could have predicted this failure.

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