Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

They start by sharing the “Seductive Seven” which is a list of common tactics organizations may use to respond to problems: More technology. For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. The Seductive Seven. More money.

Constraint 105

Constraint PR Policies Tactics 105

Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Art writes, “The emerging digital and technology-driven world demands that we rethink everything about how we manage, lead, structure and run our organizations. The study features case studies on Google, LinkedIn, HSBC, and Intel.” Let’s Get Started. ” Tweet i4cp at @i4cp.

Leadership Development 170

Leadership Development Development Leadership Advice 170

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Then we got talking about the odometer on my Nissan Pathfinder: Is a car that can go 300,000 miles a case of over-engineering or TQM excellence? If you listen to 50 consecutive business podcasts, as we did, everything starts to look like a business case study. They crave creative, adaptive, innovative thinking.

Case Study 8

Case Study TQM Supply Chain Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives. You would be wrong.

Business Model 14

Business Model Technology Advertising Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The innovative system promised to reduce local governments’ energy consumption and maintenance costs and improve their constituent relationships. “Higher!

Case Study 8

Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2012

In sum, CEOs need a frugal innovation agenda. Frugal innovation is the ability to innovate cost-effectively and sustainably under severe resource constraints. Carlos Ghosn isn't the only CEO spearheading the frugal innovation revolution. These visionary CEOs aren't caving in to Wall Street's demands for short-term gains.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Restructuring Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

Staying true to its roots as an engineering-centric company, Google has stood out both for its early skepticism of the value of managers as well as for its novel, often quantitative approaches to management decisions. If you only read one piece, make it this one by David Garvin in 2013 , on how Google sold its engineers on management.

IPO 15

IPO Management Engineering Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

But technology innovation is a powerful draw and, in business, when an opportunity arises, there is no shortage of players getting into the game. We now face new competition from Silicon Valley start-ups with venture funding and a great idea, as well as from mature industrial and technology powerhouses from the Fortune 500.

CEO 8

CEO Chief Executive Officer Venture Funding Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I wrote a case study about this for my book and it ended up on the cutting room floor, but it's still a fascinating story and one that has valuable lessons for today. As it turns out, even Honda's larger bikes were not robust enough for American riders and they started having engine failures. continued to hit the streets.

Strategy 15

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. An HBR Mini Case Study. NASA is one organization that has in fact put a lot of effort into predicting which individuals would succeed as project leaders. Get Ready to Fail.

Project 16

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Intranet: Like many companies, we have an intranet, and this is where groups of domain experts across disciplines and locations can share knowledge in the form of presentations, whitepapers, and case studies. We use a variety of habits to encourage as much mutual knowledge sharing and inspiration as possible. are mixed together.

Knowledge Management 15

Knowledge Management Management Directory Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2012

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. An HBR Mini Case Study. NASA is one organization that has in fact put a lot of effort into predicting which individuals would succeed as project leaders. Get Ready to Fail.

Project 14

Project Survey Budgeting Conflict of Interest 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? The Coty experience also informs case study examples in John P. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. How can we go even faster? What can we do to get more people involved? Insight Center.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Kotter Critical Success Factor Learning-by-Doing 9

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. by Hank Moore.

Planning 60

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 60

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

Media 357

Media Influence Blog Real Estate 357

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Technology is but one tool of the trade. The Old Became the New Again… The original speed for phonograph records, as invented in 1888, was 78-RPM, which engineers determined to be the most ideal for sound quality. by Hank Moore.

Planning 61

Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 61

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. A company with a strong legacy of device product managers and engineers, Thermo Fisher Scientific had only one software product manager when its new cloud-enabled genome-mapping tools launched. Marketing Strategy Technology'

Industry 10

Industry Retail Software Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. But innovation is an elusive beast. We can look to companies renowned for innovation — like Apple and Google — and try to learn from them. So what to do? But that's a flawed approach.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

These three mini case studies will show you just how profound those shifts will be. A company with a strong legacy of device product managers and engineers, Thermo Fisher Scientific had only one software product manager when its new cloud-enabled genome-mapping tools launched. Marketing Strategy Technology'

Industry 8

Industry Retail Software Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

Yet, all too often, our organizations end up being less innovative than the people within them. The dozens of in-the-trenches innovators who responded to our Innovating Innovation Challenge embody the first assertion and are working relentlessly and fearlessly to overturn the second. Making Innovation part of the DNA.

Innovation 8

Innovation Armstrong Construction McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

First-mover Advantage 9

First-mover Advantage GDP Technology Biotechnology 9