Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis is what I call a corporate hacker: an industrious intrapreneur working at the edges of organizations to solve persistent problems that customers care about. More specifically, they employ a diverse combination of capabilities to solve problems that aren’t being addressed by organizations as part of their everyday operations.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

The Practical Leader

JUNE 29, 2011

I just got off the phone from a painful hour of experiencing Dell’s inward focused bureaucracy as Gary, our IT support guy, and I purchased a notebook computer for Heather. Our Dell dance was an example of how customers often experience the Three Rings exactly opposite to the way people inside an organization look at them.

Bureaucracy 45

Bureaucracy Finance Positioning Productivity 45

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. Thus it’s important for leaders to understand the forms it can take and how to use it for the well-being of the organization. Yes, it can be self-serving.

Politics 12

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You may already be seeing these changes in your organization. Does your organization have a data analytics manager yet? Organizations are increasingly hiring people into novel positions, but often struggle to support these new roles. These new roles do not come with a blueprint, nor can they be copied from other organizations.

Positioning 9

Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. When the tooth-to-tail ratio gets too low, front-line people find that they have to send every customer request or idea for improvement up through the bureaucracy and wait days or weeks for a response. Limit the caravans.

Cost 10

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 10

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people. Financing for any startup is difficult enough to secure. Recently though, the defense needs of the United States have begun to shift.

Innovation 129

Innovation Software Industry Politics 129

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Digital is no longer the shiny front end of the organization – it’s integrated into every aspect of today’s companies. Unsurprisingly, the most disrupted organizations were B2C, with media being the most disrupted and telecoms and consumer financial services close behind. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

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. These aggressive new provider organizations are looking to improve value by delivering lower-cost, higher-quality service to large populations of patients.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." It's not easy, but organizations can do all of the above without staying small, just as BRAC has done.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met him again two months ago: six years later he had scaled up by a factor of ten — all the result of organic growth — and employs over 6000 people. 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

JUNE 17, 2015

In this article we look at three very different organizations – IBM, Rich Products, and Intuit – and the three different paths they have taken in reconfiguring their operations for more customer intimacy, by changing methods, reengineering processes, and transforming culture. Intuit: Reviving a Culture Built Around Customers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

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Books 360

Books Hamel Leadership Press Release 360

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. And then there’s culture: Many organizations implicitly or explicitly discourage risk taking, limiting their employees’ desire to put new growth ideas on the table. And the after-tax cost of debt for many large companies is close to the rate of inflation.

ROE 12

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices. It could mimic pieces of Medtronic's approach, such as the diagnostic camps and a financing plan. It's easy to bemoan the stifling bureaucracies that characterize some large companies.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data.

Books 8

Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” We’re all organized around projects. My peers and I will be able to bid on projects more quickly, get them done faster, and book more revenue if we aren’t hindered by needless bureaucracy.” If one office does the wrong thing, we all suffer.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

The “organization men,” as sociologist and writer William Whyte called the troop of managers who populated these bureaucracies, expected lifetime employment in a single firm. Sloan was the consummate organization-builder. A central office kept track of finances and the allocation of resources.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In Yemen, EFE's local board and staff give the organization credibility, and when the U.S.

Franchising 8

Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 8