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How to Seize Opportunity in a World of Disruption

Skip Prichard

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. For example, they many fail to detect or assess profound changes in operating landscapes, like Bear Stearns or Blockbuster did. Northern Command.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Companies That Don’t Manage Utilities Strategically Are Throwing Money Away

Harvard Business Review

However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting. For the U.S.,

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss.

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Do Not Split HR – At Least Not Ram Charan’s Way

Harvard Business Review

They don’t know how key decisions are made, and they have great difficulty analyzing why people—or whole parts of the organization—aren’t meeting the business’s performance goals.“. This approach offers the benefits of centralization (efficiency, economy of scale) and decentralization (effectiveness, local responsiveness).

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. But the decentralization debate was different.

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Blockchain Will Help Us Prove Our Identities in a Digital World

Harvard Business Review

Insightfully, the United Nations is aiming to change this, with UN Sustainable Development Goal #16 , Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions, aiming to “provide legal identity to all, including birth registration, by 2030.” They are more exposed to corruption and crime, including people trafficking and slavery. Related Video.