Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. Managing Carbon and Energy. The company has aggressively reduced its own energy demand and ramped up the use of clean energy.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Whether you are an emerging leader with a small team or an experienced leader responsible for directing the daily operations of a multinational organization, these seven CEO success tips will allow you to glean insight into your marathon by looking at the roadmap to help you win the race without fail. 3) WHERE are you going?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

How do they understand the need to change and create the energy and urgency around it? GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. The context demanded operational excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The world's eighth-largest wind turbine manufacturer may be headquartered in Pune, India, but its main R&D centers are located in the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark, nations that actively promote wind energy and boast a huge talent pool. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. and the U.K.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. Once a culture has turned sour, it’s hard to generate the goodwill and energy necessary to right the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

At one large European energy company we consulted with, no less than four separate corporate functions were supposed to be working on innovation—yet none of them was supporting critical needs at the business unit level. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes those concrete instructions and processes will not work. Once a culture has turned sour, it’s hard to generate the goodwill and energy necessary to right the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Leaders rate the importance of maintaining a sterling reputation in the countries in which they operate 10 times higher than do laggards — the greatest variance we found. Local subsidiaries have to operate in ways acceptable to the parent company. Forgoing Short-Term Profits in Favor of Long-Term Reputation. You have to comply.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

If we are to successfully adapt to the escalating complexity of our environment, we need to invest more time and energy in exploring institutional innovation. The importance of focusing on the dynamics of evolving economic and social processes rather than on static equilibrium models.

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Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. We were ready to give Ma the keys to Yahoo’s operations in China.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

In New York state, neighbors are testing their ability to sell solar energy to one another using blockchain technology. In Austria, the country’s largest utility conglomerate, Wien Energie, is taking part in a blockchain trial focused on energy trading with two other utilities. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Leading energy companies are investing in decentralized energy grids, demonstrating the broad feasibility of such approaches. These services are effective examples of long-term investments, which some companies, notably Amazon, undertook and upheld even in the face of criticism from impatient investors. Essential background.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

This decentralization and relative freedom of access has led to some unexpected consequences: Because anyone can read and write transactions, bitcoin transactions have fueled black market trading. Both of these trends have led to an increased interest in private blockchains, which could ultimately give businesses a greater degree of control.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. On April 8, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, Texas , disrupting residents and overwhelming 911 operators throughout the day.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. What went wrong?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because digitization has passed power to the consumer, pressing companies to pull together their old decentralized profit and loss fiefdoms to produce experiences consumers find compelling. Design "integration mechanisms" and operate them with rigor. Through joint work, attitudes get reshaped and energy gets created.

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P&L Decentralization COO Restructuring 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I have watched companies spend tremendous amounts of money, time and energy debating logos, taglines, color pallets, font styles, ad campaigns, positioning strategies, marketing messages, brand promises, etc., Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Abandoning the treaty was predicated on preserving American jobs, but if he’d tuned into our HBR webinar, Delivering Economic Resilience in the New Energy Paradigm, he’d have been forewarned that Pittsburgh dismantles his argument. The energy that ran the city came from a centralized macrogrid-based power system.

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Energy Innovation Policies Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

We witnessed a monumental event in a shareholder resolution calling on ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest publicly listed energy company, to disclose the impact on its business under a 2-degree scenario. But another major action last week points in the opposite direction and leaves us more optimistic.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. With a single goal and clear path, one person's energy and vision can lift a whole enterprise into the top levels. There's no doubt this is a man with vision and drive. It isn't any different than a sports team with a super-star player.

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