Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

Leadership Tip: make change a core competence. First, it is critical to make change a core competence. It was interesting to start writing my book during the longest bull market in American history and then to finish it during the one of the worst economic and health crises in history.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 3, 2011

In this world I’ve learned that there are very few quick fixes, despite what you might hear from marketers. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Patience and perseverance. You must have both. Together, and at the same time.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. This is really the compilation of many years of being a manager and teaching managers. What are the 8 skills?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” ” The role of a Product Manager (PM) is often referred to as the “CEO of the Product.” Core Competencies. Performing market assessments.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. He ultimately took the tyrant out of a management position at the company (in today’s world, this individual may have been fired). By not doing anything you are just supporting bad management. “getting rid of&# a manager is not the right way).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. Marketing activities today generate unprecedented amounts of data.

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MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. They were using sort of these old models of that’s not a fear, that’s not core, that’s not our core competency, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2013

But managing network effects as technology byproducts is a bit like treating cars as extensions of internal combustion engines; technically accurate, yes, but missing the larger purposes and points. Similarly, marketing loves the virality that social media and network effects facilitate.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. What makes time management difficult is that I might have a “to do” list together and a goal for that day, but depending on the needs of our customers I might not even touch that list.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

A company’s goal should be to integrate its arsenal of traditional and emerging digital marketing tools and specify where the field salesperson should be involved, if at all. Fortunately, B2B executives can draw upon sound guidance when reformulating their sales and marketing efforts. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Innovation, in operations, products, business models and ecosystems, isn't merely a competitive advantage, it's the competitive advantage. Operational goals like productivity, predictability and alignment are woven deeply into management systems and processes. Innovation is the only insurance against irrelevance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Through the first half of the last decade, a foundation of Nokia's competitive advantage was its unmatched ability to customize a wide variety of phones for operators. It helped to establish the Symbian operating system in 1998 and spent a fortune trying to attract developers to the platform. Are You Targeting a Phantom Market?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

One of us (Paul) is a strategy scholar and economist; the other (Amy) studies organizational behavior and operations management. From the perspective of the senior management at many companies, missing sales targets is a failure in the execution of an analytically sound strategy.). Insight center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Through his academic research and teaching at HBS, Jensen promulgated a new financial orthodoxy that corporate managers should avoid diversification and instead focus on the firm’s core competencies. Our research sought to explain why the decline in corporate diversifications among U.S. corporations was so slow.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a recent interview, Benko discussed AT&T’s efforts and offered advice for HR leaders and individual managers on how today’s workforce can avoid obsolescence. HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New innovations will change the basis of competition in many markets and alter the sources of advantage for most companies. In this world, insurance companies will require fewer actuaries and more data scientists — individuals with the ability to mine data to tailor insurance offers to specific market segments or even individuals.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

As China loses the labor advantage that has propelled its economy for the past three decades, will the country's entrepreneurs be able to compete in world markets? Chinese entrepreneurs tend to hold the view that they shouldn't follow in the footsteps of foreign multinationals, that they should pursue a "Chinese" way of doing business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

companies are discovering the appeal and opportunity of talent in emerging markets. What does it take for emerging-market female talent to break into the executive ranks of a U.S.-based reveals to be a core competency of global executives. More and more U.S. based multinational company? based multinational company?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2013

Many others were intrepid entrepreneurs, small business operators, and social venture founders. To harness these students'' talents, the course''s final project invited them to help real organizations by performing a strategic analysis of an existing firm''s business operations. Who wouldn''t want to tap into such pools of knowledge?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

Several portal companies compete with carriers as they have acquired "voice-over-internet" capabilities. Skype , for example, competes with fixed-line carriers by offering free mobile Skype calls. Google has its own contender in the market, Google Voice. Bharti looks nothing like other telecoms. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2011

B&N is moving boldly into this future in four ways that hold lessons for any company facing a troubled core: Competing with its legacy business: Rather than swim against the e-book tide, B&N has embraced the inevitable with its Nook readers. Many companies don't manage to make the leap.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You are confident that your skills and competencies make you valuable and marketable and that you can access opportunities through your network. Using his respected industry knowledge, market insight, and professional network, he developed a proposal to create a solution architect. You work with people who energize you.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

“Importantly, this will be a much simpler, much less complex company of leading brands that’s easier to manage and operate.” ” Choosing to lead and manage in accord with that empirical insight has enormous organizational and operation repercussions. innovation. Just ask Walmart.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses. The first is Colin.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Customer tracking data is typically sent to the location analytics vendor where it is analyzed and accessed via online dashboards that provide actionable data tailored to the needs of specific employees — from the store manager to the executive C-suite. Marketing. Operations. not visiting competitor venues).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". Consider these examples: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

The original IT department was formed to centralize a unique expertise that could purchase, implement, and manage technology in the enterprise. A recent Accenture report concurs, claiming that every business is now a digital business: Every industry is now software driven; as such, every company must adopt IT as one of its core competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Individuals compete for promotion. Managers assess performance. Tasks are assigned.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. Individuals compete for promotion. Managers assess performance. Tasks are assigned.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Can we execute it–does it align with our core competencies? Many organizations embark on large-scale change management efforts to “make” their organizations more innovative; most fail. The challenge is not just to make innovation happen, but to do so while simultaneously excelling in ongoing operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Build off its core competence, or play from weakness? And it wasn’t alone – another audio leader, Sony, similarly lost market share in electronics because of its analog bias. The Future of Operations. Rivals were developing digital technology to replace the existing analog standard. Internal debate raged.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

But Thomson Reuters Foundation took a different tack in its response, going beyond donating to leverage its parent company's core competencies in information and the legal industry to catalyze change. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

The dashboard aggregates an ever-growing variety of public datasets to allow for more intelligent urban management. Twitter, for example, sells access to a range of real-time APIs to marketing platforms, but the price point often exceeds researchers’ budgets. Over time, we could design responsive cities that react to this data.

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