Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. How will AI impact the bulletproof approach?

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MAY 26, 2014

Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. It’s a little more complicated than a five forces matrix or the Everett Rogers’ normal curve, diffusion and innovation curve. DAVID: Yeah.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. It transformed my business and career. Your SMARTS model is right on the money – and I do mean money!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

It's not news to anyone who's looked for a job recently that the days of a monolithic career spent at one company or in one well-defined field are over. Many of us have had to — willingly or out of necessity — rethink our career paths. At six years old, I knew what I wanted to be: a designer. I started out designing cars.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Whitney Johnson – Author of the critically acclaimed: Disrupt Yourself. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

During one of these conversations, a prospective investor turned to Clay, and said (paraphrasing), "Love disruptive innovation theory. My abilities were market-tested, validated by bulge bracket firms. Even in the middle of my career, it felt like a punch to the solar plexus. Love your returns. I felt invisible.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2011

Notwithstanding the considerable career and financial (I am the primary breadwinner) risks involved, it was time to leave my comfortable perch and become an entrepreneur. Time to disrupt myself. We typically define disruption as a low-end product or service that eventually upends an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

SUGAR AND SPICE AND DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION. Wired) The Geography of American’s Who Work From Home (Atlantic Cities) History's Most Famous Serial Career Changers (OnlineCollege.org). Female Leaders Make Startups Successful (Bloomberg Businessweek). BONUS BITS: Please Don't TiKL Me.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions? Speed alone is insufficient.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

To a prospective student (or parent), the value lies in assuming these signals will be accepted in employment markets and other times of social evaluation. But there are also entire sectors of the innovation economy that are ceasing to rely on traditional credentials and don’t even bother with the skeumorph of an adapted degree.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I gave a talk at the Canadian Marketing Association in Toronto last week. Leaving the hall, I fell into step with a young marketer. Everyone wants to be innovative but no one wants to make a mistake.". Clearly, this marketer was caught between a rock and hard place. It ceases to be adaptive, responsive, and innovative.

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JUNE 22, 2010

If you want accountability, then people have to have a say in how things are going to roll out. And, be sure to plan for enough time for the discussion.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Interactive Graphic: Is Your Job Market Growing or Shrinking? While the overall US job market still has a long way to go to get back to its pre-financial-crisis levels, it's not all bad. Management Tip Video: Applying Disruptive Innovation to Your Career Path (HBR.org). INDUSTRIAL STENGTH. The Guardian).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. The book introduced the idea of disruptive innovation to a generation of managers. First, ideas are important.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. These are the seven areas: 1.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:) David, innovation efforts can fail for a variety of reasons, but rarely is failure of any kind due to a single universal reason. Again, keep in mind that innovation and ideas are not one in the same.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

That McDonald's or Pret a Manger is less open to disruptive innovation than El Bulli? If you believe any, or all, of those things, then you're not a business sophisticate, you're an innovation snob. Be warned: uppity attitudes undermine companies and careers. Design innovation mattered more than technical innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

According to Méndez-García, one of the best models for making sense of a non-linear world is the S-curve , the model we have used to understand the diffusion of disruptive innovations, and which he and I speculate can be used to understand personal disruption — the necessary pivots in our own career paths.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

At Apple (or at any innovative company), they take a little bit of this, sprinkle in a little bit of that and that and that to churn out market-busting ideas such as iTunes, and the iPod, iPhone, and iPad (along with a few market disasters like the G4 Cube computer). That's what disruptive innovators do, day after day.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." Barriers to entry be damned.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Leading Wall Street research firm Evercore ISI, in collaboration with venture studio Visionary Future, embarked on a comprehensive study to understand the profound effects of Generative AI on businesses, the broader economy, and its integration into future workforces.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). Transaction costs, Coase argued, explained why some interactions were left to the market and others were internalized in increasingly large, complex enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

What follows is a short recap of some of the best bits from this year’s commencements, as related to business and career success. The Internet as we know it didn’t exist yet when I graduated. … Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

A prescient call provides career rocket fuel, while the wrong one can be career limiting. The product's performance didn't live up to early press releases and has struggled in the market. This pundit makes predictions about markets that she doesn't participate in. Life is tougher for the strategist. The projector.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post about the forces of competition and market change that are affecting the legal profession, causing many firms to now take the once unthinkable step of letting even senior partners go if they can't produce sufficient revenues to contribute to the firm's bottom lines (as reported in the Wall Street Journal ).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Reflecting on the fact that Holly routinely plays with both our iPad and Kinect , I said to my wife, "I think the odds that Holly actually uses a laptop during her working career are pretty close to zero.". Innovation is the imperative of today's times. 1996 wasn't that long ago.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The hospital's glass-topped atrium features cobblestone streets complete with a day spa for patients and families and an indoor farmer's market with fresh produce, flowers, and baked goods. Gerard van Grinsven, West Bloomfield's CEO, joined Henry Ford after a long career with Ritz-Carlton. "I

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. When I suggested to Clayton Christensen that we partner with Hatkoff to create the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards , Clay’s response was : I trust you Whitney.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Big Law’s commanding market lead in specific practices areas is also being challenged by boutique firms. Last but not least , some New Law firms target the small or mid-market companies that may have been priced out by the steep rise in Big Law rates. Burton Law LLC.) .

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2012

Communities of practice, where they share a common career or field of business, will extend your offer because it extends their expertise (like McAfee mavens ). This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Everything.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. In a previous generation, both would have likely followed a lucrative career in the government or perhaps even stayed overseas. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia'

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