Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

Jobs most at risk: machine operators and assemblers, clerical workers, elementary occupations, crafts and related trades. You could argue that all jobs are at risk: Machines can already analyze data, pick stocks, make decisions that touch on operational efficiency and logistics, sift through resumes and make hiring decisions, etc.

Blanchard 102

Blanchard Education CTO Technology 102

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

This means that many organizations and their leaders are running as fast as they can to quickly build their software capabilities. CEO Jeff Immelt declared in 2011 that GE needed to become a software and analytics company or risk seeing its hardware products become commodities as information-based competitors took over.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 5, 2024

Hackers, cybercriminals, and even disgruntled employees constantly threaten business operations. They exploit network, software, and infrastructure vulnerabilities to gain unauthorized access or disrupt services. Mitigating Diverse Threats In today’s interconnected world, cyber threats can come from anywhere and target anyone.

Compliance 117

Compliance Reputation Diversity Insurance 117

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Mauricio is president of the European operation for a Fortune 500 manufacturing firm, and his firm has had its trials lately. One of its major suppliers is under an ethics investigation resulting in significant delays. Yet their meetings continued to focus on the day-to-day numbers, operational processes, and immediate crises.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Strategy Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporate strategy is complex, and the advice is expensive. This makes corporate strategy an enormous and untapped prize for “robos” and “AI-enabled” expert advice across the entire enterprise; this market is ripe for disruption much the way the financial investing industry was in 2008.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2021

All this data is essential for maintaining your business operations and keeping customers happy, and it has become an integral asset for companies, big and small, all over the world. In the worst instances, you could disrupt business operations, lose profits, and potentially face legal action from unhappy customers. Create a plan.

Tips 123

Tips Management Compliance Software 123

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations. New operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. When the U.S. It is not about you.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. That’s when the usual ethical and moral constraints are sometimes abandoned – always for good reasons, and always ‘just this once’ – in the name of expediency. Sometimes this strategy even works. Carl had a Ph.D.

Company 62

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Kalanick and other top executives signal by example what is and is not acceptable behavior, and they are clearly responsible for the company’s ethically and legally questionable decisions and practices. But by the company’s launch, in 2010, most urban taxi fleets used modern dispatch with GPS, plus custom hardware and software.

Licensing 8

Licensing Transportation Document Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tactical performance is how effectively your organization sticks to its strategy. In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

Organization 9

Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 9

Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Carl, a self-made success and CEO of a venture-backed software company, is a great example. That’s when the usual ethical and moral constraints are sometimes abandoned – always for good reasons, and always ‘just this once’ – in the name of expediency. Sometimes this strategy even works. Carl had a Ph.D.

Company 50

Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

His skills and work ethic suggest that it would be reasonable to assume he could have been a world-class ice hockey player if he had dedicated himself to the sport as a youth. But a range of research has shown how successful entrepreneurs generally act differently from successful operators.*. That's no dig on James.

Sports 13

Sports Christensen Innovation Class 13

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

Companies that appreciate the power of sacrifice also appreciate that ‘do less better’ is a winning strategy at both the corporate and functional level. Coca-Cola’s focus begins at 30,000 feet, where corporate strategy is crafted. This vision establishes the principles for running a simple operation. billion and record earnings.

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. To do that, Merck formed a Strategy & Innovation Council with people from across the company. Experimentation is vital.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

In the course of an independent study during my third year of law school at Chicago, I came across an interesting experiment going on at nearby Motorola, which had built software to "engineer" complex contracts. If not his insights, then certainly his work ethic. Operations Research Strategy'

Cost 8

Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

Any manager who has ever tried to shift organizational behaviors by rolling out a new piece of software knows this well. To modify the Peter Drucker quote, "Culture eats tools for breakfast" — if you don't understand the culture you're operating in, creating change will be an uphill battle. Creating change is hard.

Metrics 12

Metrics Education Software Tools 12

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore Any company or organization is like a tree. Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Do we still take band-aid approaches (such as buying enterprise software)?

Ethics 61

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 61

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We just bought a piece of computer software. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Hank’s latest book functions as a ‘PDR of business,’ a view of Big Picture strategies, methodologies and recommendations.

Budgeting 84

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 84

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. That buying the latest software program will cure all social ills and create success. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 17, 2015

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. That buying the latest software program will cure all social ills and create success. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. The emphasis is upon the latest slogans of mission but does not look closely at how its systems operate.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware System Open-book Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Employers find this type of response a reflection of one’s work ethic and performance. This online tool allows any individual to create a mobile application for uploading to any operating system including Android, Apple, BlackBerry, and Windows. LinkedIn SlideShare: www.slideshare.net.

Tools 50

Tools Document Restructuring Software 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 4, 2011

As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving by Hank Moore. That buying the latest software program will cure all social ills and create success. Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration.

Bottom-up 60

Bottom-up System Learning-by-Doing Execution 60

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Remember the public shaming – and heavy sentences — heaped on Enron and Worldcom for their accounting (and more importantly, ethical) failures? But in an era where governance and risk agendas are driving board conservatism, there is real risk that these data sets will be used to drive conformity, not evaluate strategy.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In 2010, I wrote an HBR article predicting increased interest in supply-chain transparency: firms needed to develop strategies for knowing and explaining where stuff comes from. In a wide range of industries — electronics, software, toys, aerospace — provenance is increasingly a critical concern. Answer: Appalling.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Reputation Brand Operations 8