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How do you start your own business

Strategy Driven

Find ways to manage your finances efficiently and effectively in order not to spend your entire capital in one place. The point is that the bureaucracy and red tape can put an end to your business faster than any other issue you might run into. Make sure you promote your business and think about different strategies to do that.

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Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

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What It Takes to Innovate Within a Corporate Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

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Our Dell Dance to the ‘Bureaucratic Boogie’ Highlights a Common Service Breakdown

The Practical Leader

We like their technology, customizing equipment to our needs, value, and next day onsite service. 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. That may change.

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The Industries That Are Being Disrupted the Most by Digital

Harvard Business Review

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Think about it: If our military can create a highly complex surgical theater anywhere in the world within hours, it’s not a stretch to think the knowledge and technology exists to take care of elderly, sick people in their own homes. In fact, when asked, most say that’s exactly what they want. But back to the insurers.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. In Washington, business as usual.