Skip Prichard

JUNE 24, 2021

An organization that is nimble has the modernized and matured their practices related to people, processes, technologies, ecosystems, and strategy such that they can seize opportunities as they present themselves and stave off issues that present themselves more readily, as each will be presented more quickly than in the past.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 28, 2013

Throughout my career as a Principal engineer at Intel, I’ve repeatedly made a point to do that, and believe me, it wasn’t easy. In my case, my most powerful ideas – ideas that enabled me to lead innovative programs of worldwide scope when I was at Intel – have come from conversations with people in other organizations.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

It is the hub of the world’s energy industry, headquarters of medical innovation and entrepreneurial phenomena. Recurring themes include pioneer spirit, business innovation, community give-back, growth and vision. Today, I see Houston as a collection of communities, economic engines and entrepreneurial opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When I urge managers in a company to make open innovation part of their innovation strategy, they get it conceptually. They understand that the infusion of fresh ideas can also open their own R&D engineers and technologists to new and different possibilities and cause them to push their thinking further.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I happen to agree with Romney that A123's demise is yet more evidence that the government should not pick winners and losers among companies — whether those firms are mature auto makers like GM and Chrysler that have lost their way or start-ups in promising new green industries like A123 and Solyndra, the solar-panel manufacturer that failed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At his invitation, I went this week to the state's two largest cities, Lexington and Louisville, to talk with local entrepreneurs and community leaders about what it takes to spur more innovation and entrepreneurship in a region. It's a concern I see in cities in every mature economy that once lived in high-growth prosperity but no longer do.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The business absolutely needs energetic and emotionally mature leaders for it to prosper. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Focus on excellence. You never know when the next big recession will hit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

So why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do we see so many corporations dip their toes into the pool of innovation instead of diving in? Corporate innovation is already a difficult proposition; why doom it to failure by pursuing it half-heartedly? With the right approach, innovation at a big company is realistic.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

Guy Raz interviews innovators, entrepreneurs, and idealists to create a narrative of their journey from spark to movement in a highly successful podcast on NPR and now a book entitled, How I Built This. There is only one reliable way to engineer word of mouth: you have to make a really good product. That’s the entrepreneurial journey.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

An “innovation engine” is an organization’s capability to think and invest in long-term opportunities along with the competence to drive continuous innovations for top-line growth each year. This is your bench of corporate innovators: your intrapreneurs. Executing on Innovation. Failed Leadership. Special Series.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

After all, the conventional wisdom holds that patents are essential to keep competitors from imitating innovations, especially for small startup companies. If rivals imitate, they will drive down prices, wiping out the potential profits on innovation, thus making it difficult or impossible to earn a return on R&D investments.

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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. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

executives surveyed said they will continue to invest heavily in their home market, which is a largely mature and slow-growing economy. If emerging markets are attractive, why is so much investment capital flowing to mature markets? But these investments are not the avenues to the robust growth that innovative technology offers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

For example, engineers tend to be far more attracted to companies that emphasize innovation, while those in more commercial roles tend to be far more attracted by leadership opportunities. Talent profiles can also include typical interests of these target groups, based on research among existing high performers in these roles.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

s position as a global economic leader has been based on one thing more than anything else: its ability to innovate. Each of the industries that have sprung up around these innovations has become an engine for America's economic growth. They have been through periods of exponential growth, but now they're mature.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

A digital platform, or a digital solution, may enable a new epoch of transformative growth, but when you get under a company’s hood and look to see what’s really driving it, the engine of transformation turns out to be its business model. Major changes to any one of these elements affect the others and the whole.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

In other words, the larger a company becomes, the more the entire engine has to work harder. A company''s growth is also inhibited by market maturity. As a company gets larger, there is more pressure to preserve the base business and less willingness to cannibalize it through innovative new offerings.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Students can grow and mature socially because of educators. Today, we rely less on designers to develop fresh concepts and instead turn to search engines. Engineers play a big role in our day-to-day lives. If you’re ready to enter the field, engineering degrees typically start around the age of 18.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Over the past dozen years, I have participated in both the infusion of digital capabilities into traditional marketing organizations and the establishment and maturation of digital marketing organizations at Disney, J.Crew and, now, Conde Nast Entertainment where I am VP of marketing-digital. Each role is clearly defined and limited in scope.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

Innovation suffers, as does employee engagement: two key issues in Asia. Another bank we are working with, also based in Hong Kong and hoping to boost innovation and employee engagement, is taking its first steps in changing its demographic profile. Not all leaders can come from just one or even a few select backgrounds.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Like every start-up before it, it has matured and started to morph into a larger, more bureaucratic organization, concerned with threats and working to protect the core revenues. It was possible Facebook could flip a switch, team with say, Bing, and become a more relevant search engine. Google was supposed to be different, folks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy — which generate profits that we invest in innovation!" It shows the business life cycle "maturity phase" leading, inexplicably, into the "conception/ start-up phase." Who could argue with that?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2015

Malone is a brilliant financial engineer, who creates separate capital structures — each with a unique stock — for his different lines of business. As Todd Zenger wrote here earlier this week , many investors want to buy stock in a safer, maturing search advertising business without buying into Google’s riskier moonshots.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. is dynamic, and investors know that there are companies interested in buying innovative tech startups. That's why most investments in Africa are in mature industries like oil & gas, real estate, and finance, among others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Recent headlines have been foreboding, highlighting concerns that the retrenchment could leave the most promising engines of global economic growth sputtering. A handful of mature Western institutions are reinventing themselves as global players. Forward-looking Western banks.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

But as start-ups mature, the grow-at-all-cost narrative will be replaced by a flight to capital efficiency and profitability. The median age is 24, and local universities produce over 130,000 graduates in information technology and engineering each year. So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. Thought leaders "lead" by staying ahead of the curve — by recognizing and writing about managerial ideas before they become too mature.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. On a recent trip, he briefed me on his business plan and on the school's operations with the maturity and confidence of a seasoned entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

These companies are investing millions into intelligent systems for situation assessment, prediction analysis, learning-based recognition systems, conversational interfaces, and recommendation engines. As the market has matured, AI is beginning to move into enterprises that will use it but not develop it on their own.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

More companies have pledged to open their data, giving innovators everywhere the chance to mine that data and use it to drive better care. An accelerated effort is needed to create mature standards and expand their adoption by manufacturers. In recent years, there has been movement to change that.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The DNA that has been in HP's bones from the start is all about excellence in hardware engineering. That DNA served it well over several decades; even through the 1990s, HP succeeded through its ability to innovate with hardware, and its strong focus on quality won it strong customer loyalty. This is what I've observed at HP.

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