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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part Two

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. Special Operations Command UChicago University of Chicago USSOC Voltaire Western Union The Wall Street Journal Whirlpool Corporation'

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Peter Skarzynski and David Crosswhite: An interview by Bob Morris, Part One

First Friday Book Synopsis

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. Special Operations Command University of Chicago USSOC Western Union Whirlpool Corporation' His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […].

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Faculty of Columbia Business School.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Strategic intent takes the long view: the act of such intent is to operate from the future backward, disregarding the resource scarcity of the present.

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A New Framework for Customer Segmentation

Harvard Business Review

This then allows the development of specific solutions for each segment. This type of of segmentation is more important than ever as technologically empowered customers have more choice and the ability to craft their own solutions. For each segment, there may be only three or four jobs to be done that are crucial.

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The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread Its Wings

The Horizons Tracker

Through the work of the Global Institute of Innovation Districts they highlight the work of ecosystems from Melbourne to Milan, St Louis to Stockholm, all of whom are working to further the development of a vaccine for the virus. Practical solutions. They strive not only to make money, but make a tangible difference to society.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

That only makes sense if you are operating in a state of equilibrium—which might have been close enough to the truth in some sepia-toned time. Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. Therefore: who needs new technology more than the poor? As the late C.

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