Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Let us give you our definition of what it means to be a founder: Playing a central role in starting and managing an initiative that will have impact (preferably visible and large) on an organization or the broader world. I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?”

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2014

In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think , authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. Last year, Nature reported that Flu Trends overestimated by 50% the peak Christmas season flu of 2012.

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Trends Short-term Analysis Definition 8

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. Alston, the UN Study). Research: World-wide eco-anxiety on the rise. My body starts to panic.

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How To Bond Positioning Stress 107

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

What effective managers and leaders must recognize is that it begins with caring about the people who drive your business. As customer expectations are constantly changing, it is ever more critical that businesses are in tune with those trends. Poor Management Leads to Poor Employees. Managers and leaders are not made equal.

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Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

I recently conducted an extensive research project involving more than one-hundred vice presidents of sales at top technology companies (software, cloud, computer hardware, and telecommunications) to better understand the art and science of managing a sales organization today. Field Sales Revenue Trends. Inside Sales Roles.

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Metrics Telecommunications Telemarketing Software 11

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). These managers also bring a valuable perspective to the table.

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Human Capital Charan Human Resources Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. LPs pay VCs like asset managers, not investors. The larger the fund, the larger the fee stream.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Industry 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Nevertheless, Smithsonian magazine reports, KFC managed to create a marketing campaign — Kurisumasu ni wa kentakkii! The Silver Bullet Fix (Project Syndicate). “No Five Trends to Ignore in 2013 (Inc.). Christmas isn’t a national holiday in Japan, where only about 1% of the population is Christian. TIME-SINK CITY.

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Power ROI Magazine Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Research in 2013 from demographer Richelle Winkler shows that in the U.S., In an HBR article , two management school professors found that an age-integrated assembly line resulted in improved productivity, reduced absenteeism, and fewer defects. age segregation is often as ingrained as racial segregation.

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Education Absenteeism Efficiency Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. Salespeople complained that excessive updating of CRM systems, time consuming forms/reports required by management, and post-sales administration activities sapped valuable selling time in the field. Administrivia.

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Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

Glass product manager Steve Lee is quoted as saying: Major new consumer tech products are rarely brought out of the lab at this stage of development. Google has been at the forefront of the trend toward consumer technologies being adopted by enterprises, but the history of computing contains more examples of the reverse.

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Strategy Early Adopters Innovation Proposal 10

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

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. Third, their external focus keeps everyone aware of emerging trends in the economy and the industry.

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Strategic Planning Root Cause Analysis Tactics Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Our most satisfying work comes about when we’re playing offense, working on projects that we ourselves initiate. If you start a project and leave it unfinished, you’re bound to think about it more frequently than after it’s done. In the 1990s, being productive mainly required good time management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2016

“We are taking action now to reverse this trend, just as organizations took measures to reduce environmental pollution after the industrial revolution.” As I write about in my new book, Under New Management , an increasing number of company leaders are outlawing or at least restricting email. percent to 7.5

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

All of this has culminated in the new trend of eliminating vacation policies, so that employees can make work-life balance decisions that work for them. American workers already forfeit a large percentage of their existing paid time off (Project Time Off says it was 169 million days in 2013.)

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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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Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Difficulty in distribution is not unique to Asia and reflects a global trend. Additionally, managing corrupt business practices often makes it difficult for MNCs to realize growth potential in the short term. Mercedes-Benz and Skoda have recently expanded in the country with new showrooms and models. Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

They didn't understand how to sell their project internally and were unable to garner senior executive sponsorship. Salespeople complained that excessive updating of CRM systems, time consuming forms/reports required by management, and post-sales administration activities sapped valuable selling time in the field. Administrivia.

Telecommunications 9

Telecommunications CRM Price Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

In e-commerce, advances in tracking and analytics have made it possible for retailers to understand what individual customers are doing before they make a purchase, and to gather and analyze hundreds and thousands of data points to identify trends. Brick-and-mortar stores haven’t had the same advantage.

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Retail Chief Technology Officer Technology Merchandising 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

. “One, you have to replace the talent, and in a time of tight labor markets, that’s a very hard—and very expensive—endeavor,” explains John Sullivan, an HR expert, professor of management at San Francisco State University, and author of 1000 Ways to Recruit Top Talent. ” Keep it in perspective.

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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. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 2, 2013

And yes, it takes courage to get management unstuck in their ways. Ninety-two (92) percent of all problems in organizations stem from poor management decisions. Attempting projects without the proper resources to do the job well. Changing trends, upon which I could not capitalize but which others could. Mis-Calculations.

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Company Budgeting Learning-by-Doing Consultative 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

At the end of each year, I apply a framework to surface the most important emerging trends in digital media and emerging technology for the year ahead. Those attributes help us identify a set of likely trends on the horizon. Then, we put each trend through what we call The Five Questions: Where/how are people wasting their time?

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Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

And this seems to be what customers want from online marketplaces: A study we published in 2013 found that when consumers move from brick-and-mortar video rental stores to online marketplaces, they are much more likely to choose niche titles instead of blockbusters.

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Creativity Project Audience Content 8

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.

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Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

We can filter out the background noise, like marine life, and listen only to things we want”, explains Fabian Dawson, sales manager from GE Measurement and Control. GE has also introduced it to American customers at the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. Kendall, European Marketing Manager of Shell.

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Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To expect anything as complex as this particular project to emerge fully functional on day one was the first (and perhaps most important) failure. The CMS monthly status reports leading up to October 1 (especially the report for August, 2013 ) reveal increasingly desperate language and blame shifting. Playing the blame game.

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Company Telecommunications CIO Learning-by-Doing 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2013

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Resources Tools CFO Business Intelligence 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

But Takata’s example is one of the many clear signs that managers who hone their visualization skills may increasingly find themselves in a position to change emphasis in a chart, leave out data, or add some data. I went a little further: The services here are for women, and the population of women changed between 2006 and 2013.

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PR Ethics Engineering Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Fortunately, there are some encouraging trends. Projections put about 22% of all digital media being automated next year – up from just 4% in 2010. For too long, the industry has asked marketers to manage multiple relationships with up to 40 vendors to execute online advertising. Automation will take hold.

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Advertising Industry Technology Bottom-up 9

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.” This means analysts need to understand what the firm’s managers can understand.

Marketing 11

Marketing Advertising Learning-by-Doing Survey 11

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

But Nincompoopery is something different: it’s the corporate stupidity that drives customers crazy, and keeps everyone—customers, employees, managers and business owners—from getting what they want. And that’s only scratching the surface of everything we’re trying to manage in this brave new world.

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How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

A GreenBiz report indicated that progress had slowed or even regressed, but MIT and BCG also declared that sustainability had reached a "tipping point" with more companies putting sustainability "on the management agenda.". Macro Trends. To cap the year, the pure electric Tesla Model S was selected as the Motor Trend Car of the Year.

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Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10