Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. In business terms, a superstar computer engineer is unlikely to write 100 times more code than an average performer. That’s what Atta Tarki shares in his new book, Evidence-Based Recruiting.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 102

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. It is impossible to earn healthy profits in emerging markets.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. She develops plans for filling senior leadership positions a full year in advance, speaking with candidates on a regular basis to build strong relationships. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Performing market assessments. Core Competencies. Running design sprints.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Infomocracy , by governance researcher Malka Older, explores how software could change our public institutions through the social and technical engineering of elections. Assumptions toppled Kodak despite the fact that its engineers built the first digital camera in 1975. Assumptions are a luxury true leaders can’t afford.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. I wasn’t a software engineer, and I was tempted to leave agile methods to the geeks. We identify and remove constraints to the innovation process.

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. This is the first time within the NHS that designers, engineers and clinicians have been brought together to co-create.

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Health Care Innovation Mayo Stage-Gate 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Financial capital was recognized as the scarce resource and its shortage a significant constraint on growth.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Professionals of color, women, and LGBTs find there is a much narrower band of acceptance, and the constraints bite harder than wearing more polished outfits, getting a decent haircut, or even de-emphasizing an accent. If you want to be perceived as leadership material, do you suppress your difference or embrace it?

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EPS Hypercompetition Diversity Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Make sure leadership teams are fully immersed in defining and setting expectations across the entire organization. Increase market share? All of the above?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

The third was around thought leadership. The marketing model changes. Does the circular economy decouple growth from resource constraints? Renault has a 230 million Euro remanufacturing business with engines and gear boxes. The remanufactured cars leave the factory with the same warranty as a new engine.

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Company Apparel Engineering Welch 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. Frugal innovations require frugal thinking — an ability to engineer cost?conscious Use Convergence Thinking. Find Pivots.

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Skills Power Six Sigma Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms. Narrowly focused.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

And just like software engineers who hold code in their head or a law firm partner who controls critical client relationships, the Dana-Farber scientists hold a credible threat of walking out the door with their IP and grant-winning prowess. And they faced big constraints. Convince with quantitative evidence.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker. Victorio M. One is the concept of alignment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Unlike most developed markets, where outside directors typically constitute a majority of the board, corporate boardrooms in Japan continue to be dominated by insiders. On a visit to Tokyo last year, I discussed board practices with the head of investor relations at a large engineering company whose board contained no outside directors.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

In these cases Rwanda had eroded assets, but there was a foundation and a proof point, a market test that these areas could be successful and they could be competitive. What are the constraints?". Rwanda is winning international awards and marketing globally, and tourism is booming. Economy Global business Leadership'

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Porter Tourism Politics Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Because of the way industrial products are designed and engineered, you know that when your production line is spitting out Model T cars, you can be reasonably certain they will work as designed. The old cliché in marketing is true: Customers don’t want a quarter-inch drill. Using the Alternative to Output: Outcomes.

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Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

The kind of innovation that creates new markets always goes against the grain. Use strong leadership to enable true collaboration. Yet while that kind of leadership is crucial, it’s the ability to tap the collective minds of the organization that drives the business. Think like engineers and customers.

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Venture Capitalist Company Succession Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Digital players wield outsize market power. With products that rely on network effects, these players enjoy economies of scale and dominant market share. Digital markets are uneven. Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness.

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