Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2016

Sometimes we have to manage closely At least once a week a pastor contacts me about church revitalization. It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. Bureaucracy and process we know well. As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years.

Micromanagement 56

Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 56

Ron Edmondson

APRIL 30, 2019

It’s important to know I’m not a micro-management leader. Bureaucracy and process we knew well. As with most churches in need of revitalization, our finances had been struggling for several years. We had done remarkably well financially (again thanks to tremendous finance committee and staff efforts).

Micromanagement 40

Micromanagement Long-term Finance Energy 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. However, these prescriptions for innovation at Roivant have also led to some unexpected challenges.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Does your organization have a data analytics manager yet? A sustainability manager? Too much structure will stifle creativity and innovation. The managers struggle to access organization resources and have limited discretion. You may already be seeing these changes in your organization. Are new roles sprouting up?

Positioning 9

Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. They also have a greater impact on organizational outcomes. However, political behavior is also likely to be present, but not explicit, until it is too late.

Politics 11

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

” Laudable as these may be, USAID, the State Department, and other government agencies should really be backing programs that stimulate and support scalable, innovative, job-creating businesses – the kinds of companies that are antidotes to mass unemployment and economic hopelessness, not microfinance.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Others reward easy-to-measure improvements in existing processes over less-easily-quantified innovations. Companies that encourage innovation take steps to overcome these organizational obstacles. The result: a shortage of good growth ideas.

ROE 10

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Although they retain a pro-poor focus, they generate the profits necessary for BRAC to be 70% self-financed in Bangladesh, where BRAC is based. Of course, there are downsides to this approach, and management needs to be aware of them. Size inevitability leads to hierarchy, to rigidities in the system, and bureaucracy.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” But as Intuit grew, informality and entrepreneurship began to morph into procedure and bureaucracy.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8