Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Electrofishing - A pal of mine performs fisheries research in Canada and gets to catch fish all day with electricity to determine populations, tag the fish and release them back into the wild. New technology all the time. Spend all summer in the mountains and write reports on your findings in the winter. BEST JOB EVER.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

The Deloitte 2018 Global Human Capital Trends Survey identified ten common themes that are keeping global business leaders awake at night and the overwhelming winner was the lack of alignment and collaboration at board level (the C-Suite). However, this is all about to change. No one doubts that today’s consumer is more demanding than ever.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2018

Delivery method and technology matter too. Consistent with this belief is the recent trend of streaming content providers investing more and more in original content — Netflix and Amazon very notably, and even Apple is starting to make its own shows.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

As a backlash against increasingly international trends, relationships matter more. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. Start small and build up.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

While a focus group can't fully represent how your idea will do in the wild, it will at least give you an idea of how it could be received by the public. Also, see if the market looks like it's trending in the right direction for your idea. See if you can't put a small focus group together, preferably strangers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

In fact, that exact conclusion is one that Thierry Breton, CEO of the France-based information technology services firm Atos Origin, arrived at several years ago. “We are taking action now to reverse this trend, just as organizations took measures to reduce environmental pollution after the industrial revolution.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used. With Google X the company is attempting to put its mark on the very process of technological innovation. The comparison to the PC is telling.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2015

Surveys indicate that more than 30 percent of the top 300 largest global brands are now using or evaluating 3D printing (often with printing technology in-house) whether for prototyping and other innovation projects or in actual production of what they sell. Wild cycles, for sure.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

This could well have been the case had public health officials relied exclusively on Google Flu Trends, which mistakenly estimated that peak flu levels reached 11% of the US public this flu season, almost double the CDC's estimate of about 6%. This looks to be the year that we reach peak big data hype.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

In an effort to move from the Wild West world of shoot-from-the-hip decision making to a more evidence-based model, companies realized that they would need data. A narrative that gives you context to today''s numbers by exploring the trends and comparisons that you need in order to make sense of it all. Data itself isn''t the solution.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2014

Of course, we live in a wildly diverse world; we want to be inclusive and broad minded ourselves; and we therefore want our providers of financial advice, energy, and technology to reflect those values. At the same time, the share of men shown in their advertising has declined.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2015

The Upshot’s Claire Cain Miller does a nice job of putting all of these trends into context.) ” Labor Emotional intelligence Technology' Even experts are pretty divided about whether or not robots will take our jobs. ” This is something businesses should keep in mind.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. For the right products—those with high margins, a limited shelf life, or short product life cycles such as fashion and technology items—the added costs of air freight are more than offset by the positive impact on profits of fewer stockouts and overstocks.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Today, this sort of thing is possible not just for online experiences; it’s possible for physical experiences as well — and not just retail shopping. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Two trends account for this: the rapid convergence of enterprise IT architectures, and the proliferation of increasingly sophisticated adversaries. Changes in enterprise IT over the past decade mean that every company is now a technology company. vulnerability intelligence (what is being exploited in the wild?),

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

According to Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, disclosures of government hacking by former security contractor Edward Snowden greatly accelerated the push to encrypt everything. Over half of all web traffic is now secured, as invisible to ISPs as it is to the NSA.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

This is in part because every clean energy technology is rapidly getting cheaper. The list goes on, and the trend won’t stop at food and personal care products. But it does perhaps make diesel less compelling as a clean transportation technology. In the U.S., in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Reviews: “This wild, wicked show is not just a screamfest; it’s a good piece of theater!” - The New York Times “Funny, furious and wholly enthralling!” - Wall Street Journal “Teller has filled Play Dead with elaborate illusions and effects including a slam-bang finale!”

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We’ll teach you our technology. Are there any other trends right now that are driving servant leadership that seems to be either making it easier or harder? This caffeine giant that former president Howard Behar wrote a book entitled: “It’s Not About the Coffee”, drives success through servant leadership.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We’ll teach you our technology. Are there any other trends right now that are driving servant leadership that seems to be either making it easier or harder? This caffeine giant that former president Howard Behar wrote a book entitled: “It’s Not About the Coffee”, drives success through servant leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

So, rather than take up valuable list real estate with these perennial favorites and big-picture drivers, I'll quickly list them in one big bucket of mega-trends: The rise of the consumer around the world, related to. Here's the rest of my top 10 stories, with callouts for companies and examples that typify the trend.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

This fractured media consumption trend makes it difficult for brands to build brand awareness, earn consumer mindshare, and drive sales. Taco Bell got it right with the launch of the Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Taco, sending customers on a wild goose chase to get the news about this new product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Consistently ranked #1 in Boston , downsizing and macroeconomic trends are facts of life Siegel simply doesn't have to worry about: he's protected by the power of his brand. Most workers are buffeted by forces outside their control — industry changes, technological innovations, globalization, and the like.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

It can be the technology that scales good deeds to the global level. The rate of committing acts of good is only bound by the speed of technology. To gain social authority, you must be kind because power is shifting to the hands of the masses and it's trending positive. It has already started. And it's not that close.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Deep in the golden corn fields of Iowa, technology is transforming life on the farm. But FarmLogs is not your typical technology start-up, and its founders, Jesse Vollmar and Brad Koch, are not your typical Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurs. Jorg Greuel/Getty Images.

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