Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

29% of Americans believe that armed rebellion might be necessary in the near future to protect their liberties from government intrusion (Cassino, Jenkins, 2013). We’re not as agile at smoothing over awkward moments, repairing a rift in relationships, expressing genuine gratitude and acknowledging contribution. Alston, the UN Study).

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2014

Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation Episode 3 – Agile Balance. Declaring a mission. Making alliances. Creating followership. Managing the action cycle. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

More than 2,500 developers and start-ups have reached out to the IBM Watson Group since the Watson Developers Cloud was launched in November 2013. They brought in 2000 people, a dozen projects, a couple of Big Data and content analytics tools, and a consulting unit (outside of IBM Global Services ). So how does it work?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

For instance, a 2013 Gartner survey found that 64% of enterprises were deploying or planning big data projects, up from 58% the year before. Is big data just another IT project that can be run by a unit head? So forget the ROI mind-set and the project mentality, and imbue big data into your overall business strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Blaming programmers, coders, and project managers for disgraceful design flaws and technical turmoil is too easy and obvious. Emerging problems are flagged sooner; project leaders present their testing protocols and outcomes; and updated expectations are clearly communicated throughout the enterprise. Crap rolls downhill. Look deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. A recent survey of CEOs reveals that HR is overwhelmingly viewed as the least agile function. And HR’s credibility deficit doesn’t help the matter.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

With added pressure to succeed and nowhere to retreat to, they are also more likely to improvise, get resourceful, and focus on meeting basic needs to push their long-shot projects through. For example, at Reputation.com, CEO Michael Fertik never tells new business development staff how to start the sales process or size deals. “In

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

You have half-baked projects all over the place. We could examine the results, and if we didn’t see early promise, we were agile enough to adjust, change course, or if necessary, cut our losses and kill it. Remember that Foursquare grader project? And in the spring of 2013, we opened our European headquarters in Dublin.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

Project Apollo Archive/NASA Johnson Space Center/Flickr. NASA has moved from being a hierarchical, closed system that develops its technologies internally, to an open network organization that embraces open innovation, agility, and collaboration. Space X carried out its first resupply mission in 2012 and Orbital Sciences in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. They attempted nearly 34 projects that failed before developing an iPhone app called Picaboo, which was subsequently rebranded as Snapchat.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2014

Kickstarter is one of a growing number of crowdfunding platforms for gathering money from the public to fund all sorts of projects. IBM saw these online social systems for investing in new ventures and decided they would like to develop a similar system internally for selecting innovative projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. Thinking along these lines can help women create options, feel prepared, and remain agile in fluid political situations. Turn your mentor into a sponsor.

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