Skip Prichard

APRIL 12, 2021

Leadership is shifting as we grapple with technology changes, shifting market realities, new business models, and unpredictable outside forces. The definition that I operate from is that leadership is any means by which two or more people develop the ability to cooperate and take collective action. Thrive in a Hyper-Connected World.

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Self-aware Leadership Team Open-book 134

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

Advise the manager to give them some feedback. But for flat or self-managed teams, that’s not an option. Self-managed teams must identify different ways to find and address day-to-day conflicts. Self-managed teams can focus on three things to help them successfully resolve conflicts.

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Team Management CTO Open-book 10

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. Now, instead, at ING they say, "Here''s your team.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

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.” Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful. Company Fit.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Big data has the potential to revolutionize management. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance. The technologies are new and in some cases exotic.

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Management Airlines Supply Chain CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

The best managers hire smart people to work for them. How do you manage people who have more experience or more knowledge? It’s natural to feel worried or insecure about your ability to manage someone who has superior experience or knowhow. But what if your direct reports are smarter than you? What the Experts Say.

Management 8

Management How To CTO Mentor 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

We would then develop a series of social media posts that focus on a particular topic related to either leading, followership or mentoring. Jim Hotaling conducts a leadership development seminar in Cancun, Mexico. For each leader, the focus would be on understanding the essence of leadership from their point of view. .

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

Only 31% of Fortune 100 boards currently have a director who is a CIO, even though technology is at the core of every business today. As Sheila Jordan, CIO at Symantec and director at FactSet, put it, “All companies are technology companies today. Technology is a lever to run the business, but also to change and grow.”

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CIO Committee Technology P&L 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

For all the emphasis placed on customer relationships these days, very few large organizations really understand how to manage them. This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. Insight Center.

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CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

I''m often struck by how many articles exclusively focus on new or emerging technology and their productivity or efficiency effects. Every discussion on the role of IT and CIOs should start with the question: "What are the potential uses of this technology that will guarantee we stay in business?" Generating Top-Line Growth.

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Enterprise Architecture CIO Horizontal Integration Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. New, more agile , software development tools and testing methods are utilized.

CIO 8

CIO CTO Operations Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Perhaps the most exciting (and challenging) aspect of working in a progressive IT organization is the pace of technological change. Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. Generate Room for Innovation.

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CIO Positioning PPM Information Technology 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance. It’s an unrelenting focus on developing the best leaders at every level of your enterprise.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Additional content will be shared on Team Development and Management. We will use this co-creation to develop future programs and facilitated work sessions. CTO – Why are we here? o Processing into developing goals, sharing goals, and placing goal in context to IT teams. CTO has some parting words.

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Team Building Team CTO Leadership 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. However, the company's initial steps to penetrate developing markets were unproductive. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. As they develop, poor countries will catch up with rich ones.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2021

To create more capable software, developers relied heavily on high levels of sequential programming languages and software abstraction — reusing component software and libraries for common tasks. But emerging new technologies may obfuscate those responsibilities with an interesting hybrid solution. Understanding the “memory wall”.

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Software CTO Travel Library 99

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. For all of us, Danny was our CTO and visionary.

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CTO Lewin IPO Mentor 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2013

For a time, having a BlackBerry was the ultimate status symbol in business, as well as the ultimate addiction: One former global account manager recalls a CTO referring to the blinking red light as "digital heroin." He’s not going to last,''" recalls former senior business development manager Vincent Washington. "I

CTO 8

CTO Apparel Ryan Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

In July 1999, I left a law firm for a business development role at a startup with a strange name — Akamai Technologies. On day one, because we did not yet have a general counsel, the company told me — the only ex-lawyer then on staff — to manage the IPO.

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IPO Lewin CTO Conference 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

So we developed a simple process to help people clarify their intentions and their positioning. For example, if you want clients for your CTO coaching business, then chief technology officers (and the people who know them) are your audience. It involves answering three basic questions: Why are you writing this?

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Audience Chief Technology Officer Open-book CTO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

But not ever as fast as the manager wants!” ” “Where is the manager?” The manager says I’m the only one she trusts with the toilets.” As Ken clocked out at 2:30 PM, the manager told him, “You do good work. And he saw managers who were effective but spread too thin.

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Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. Building resilient IT plans that take into account future uncertainties in the technological realm is just the start.

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Scenario Planning CIO Planning Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. For a holiday promotion, a young project manager and his marketing colleagues launched a “treasure hunt,” working nonstop to launch registration pages, clues, and an hourly countdown clock.

Education 8

Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

E-commerce players were still figuring things out, and brick-and-mortar stores weren’t really experimenting with technology. Yet based on my own experiences, I believed we could use technology to make shopping more efficient. We’re constantly evaluating new technologies and platforms. And then we brainstorm.

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Brand CTO Marketing Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. Serendipity into Performance.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. At Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. Trouble was, the launch violated eBay’s well-established corporate project-development processes. Developing the Global Leader.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2013

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. IT creates risk confusing leadership, governance, and managing.

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Dunning Project CTO Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

She loved her job, and with a background in public affairs in communications had been successful in both international business and management roles. She also believed that Sanofi’s competitive edge was at risk because of this narrow approach to talent management. How Good Management Stifles Breakthrough Innovation.

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Innovation Christensen Decisionmaking CTO 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2015

But no one yet is successfully leveraging consumer data and relationships across the digital-physical divide at scale, despite early experimentation with technology such as beacons. Technology can power smarter media placements and dynamic creative strategies at scale. Brands must align process and technology to make this happen.

Brand 8

Brand Disintermediation Media Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. Most CMOs have woken up to the fact that technology is fundamentally changing what marketers do and we can’t treat IT like a back-office function,” says Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP.

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CIO Budgeting Enterprise Architecture Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In the spirit of becoming more adaptive , organizations have rushed to implement Agile software development. Agile software development. Frameworks for adaptive software development like Agile, have been around for a long time, and have manifested in many forms. But many have done so in a way that actually makes them less agile.

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Agility Engineering Software How To 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

In contrast, another software entrepreneur found that a poor choice of a chief technology officer, who was assumed by others to be the unannounced number two, prevented his small startup from being acquired by a Silicon Valley giant, because the potential acquirer found the CTO incapable of backing up the CEO as the company grew.

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COO Wireless Ryan Chief Operating Officer 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2011

I've seen fascinating developments inside both big companies and emerging startups. Then the middle managers left, and the gloves came off. The second meeting was a moderated discussion between P&G CTO Bruce Brown and me about our recent Harvard Business Review article. The technology is simple. Then the top brass left.

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CTO Audience Consensus Innovation 13