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). Workplaces are buffered from some societal trends, but they are not immune. Develop a Positive Culture. Alston, the UN Study). Albert Einstein.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5%

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 22

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Developing a culture of caring within your organization to engage your employees is vital to the strategy to drive success to your business. As customer expectations are constantly changing, it is ever more critical that businesses are in tune with those trends. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Human-capital issues are top-of-mind for CEOs around the world — but their regard for the HR function remains perilously low: In a PwC study , only 34% said that HR is well prepared to capitalize on transformational trends (compared with 56% for finance). Sadly, chief executives aren’t the only ones with this negative perception.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

The authors conclude that’s between 550 and 600 million people in developing G20 economies. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5%

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Disruptive Innovation Innovation Pharmaceuticals Class 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

Taking a lead from the fashion industry where celebrities like Giorgio Armani are influential trend-setters, Italcementi targets "archistars", rock-star architects whose ideas influence the behaviors and choices of the mass of architects. Behind each partnership with an archistar, there is always a commissioned landmark project.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Earlier this week, China's National Energy Administration announced its intention to add 10 gigawatts of solar power capacity in 2013 , more than twice its current level. China has also begun offering subsidies for rooftop solar projects. China is projected to spend $113 billion per year on trains and railway infrastructure.

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Industry Real Estate Telecommunications Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Just yesterday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a new report predicting that the economy of China will rebound and grow 8.5% in 2013 and 8.9% When it comes to China and India, we at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) urge you to bet in favor of both.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The Silver Bullet Fix (Project Syndicate). “No No action has been proven to do more for the human race than the education of female children,” says India’s minister for HR development, Sashi Tharoor, and certainly he’s not the first to say so. Five Trends to Ignore in 2013 (Inc.). TIME-SINK CITY. Big Data is a fad.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., What’s more, the American housing sector, long a part of the problem — think Sun City, Leisure World, and other age-restricted developments — may in fact be leading the way in seeding a new set of solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

That suggests that they may be trying to persuade firms to buy the device and develop applications for it. Sure enough, in April Google announced “ Glass for Work ,” an initiative aimed at developing more work-related apps on the Glass platform. Glass may yet turn out to be a great consumer success. Glass is different.

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Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With every project, they are spreading the word through their networks, and the connection to #GivingTuesday becomes more valuable. On Twitter, the hashtag trended to number one on Tuesday, November 27. Across all kinds of platforms, individuals from nonprofit development staff to celebrities to CEOs helped spread this compelling idea.

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Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is the most visible organization tasked with shepherding that inclusive innovative growth. The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development.

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Banking Globalization Credit Rating Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

’s ” Similarly, according to a survey by CareerBuilder in 2013, almost a third of employers said that their educational requirements for employment had recently increased, and specifically that they were hiring more college-educated workers for positions previously held by high school graduates. Jobs That Newly Require B.A.’s

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). As a result, software-enabled manufacturing start-ups are poised to have a large economic impact.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

“There’s usually a trigger event,” such as getting turned down for a promotion or having a project postponed, that makes other options suddenly more attractive. Perhaps allowing the employee to work a flexible schedule, work on different projects, or work more from home is enough to retain them.

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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. billion in mining projects since 2010.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 2, 2013

Business development. Attempting projects without the proper resources to do the job well. Inability to finely develop the powers of people participating in the networking process. Changing trends, upon which I could not capitalize but which others could. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. The Big Picture.

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Company Budgeting Learning-by-Doing Consultative 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

Oil and Gas subsea operators across the world are adopting a GE Industrial Internet technology developed in Norway. The listening ‘ear’, an array of sensors in a 500-pound ‘birdcage’ dome that sits on the sea floor or on subsea equipment, was developed at the GE Measurement and Control site in Bergen, Norway.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013. Free wifi places are fine as social gathering spots, but the random non-working others who share that space surely won't help you find new colleagues or generate development leads. And for good reason.

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Entrepreneur Case Study Innovation Media 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

We see a paradox in two important analytics trends. This means better integrating marketing and IT, and developing systems around the information needs of the senior management team instead of creating a culture of “capture data and pray.” Develop an instinct for mapping the variation in the data to the business questions.

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Marketing Advertising Learning-by-Doing Survey 11

Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2013

billion in 2030 (out of a projected global population of 8.3 But every region of the world will participate in the trend, including Africa, which the African Development Bank estimates already has a middle class of more than 300 million people. Source: The Wall Street Journal, June 29, 2013. billion in 2009 to 3.2

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors. As a result, Fitbit held 68 percent market share through 2013 versus 19 percent for Jawbone and just 10 percent for Nike. .” – John R. Why is this becoming more prevalent?

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Macro Trends. Over one-third of the world's largest companies surveyed by the Carbon Disclosure Project are already seeing the impacts of climate change on their business. To cap the year, the pure electric Tesla Model S was selected as the Motor Trend Car of the Year. Five Questions For 2013. and plug-in sales up 228%.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10