Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

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.,

Company 8

Company Management CIO Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule.

Price 13

Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Many so-called strategies are in fact goals. “We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. For example, consider “We want to increase operational efficiency; we will target Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and we will divest business X.”

Strategy 15

Strategy Bottom-up Balanced Scorecard Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

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. auto market.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

The seven roles for CIUs are: designing shelter for innovation; supporting best practices and methods; developing skills; supporting business unit initiatives; identifying new market spaces; facilitating ideas generation; and directing seed funding. One remarkable example is Johnson & Johnson’s Innovation Unit.

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

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).

Charan 10

Charan Human Resources Leadership Pipeline Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2014

The simple digitization of existing insurance processes (allowing quotes to go straight through processing, for example, and rapid product configuration) could yield strong improvement to operating profit margins. Their operating model and governance are suited to the organization’s digital maturity, size and capability levels.

Insurance 8

Insurance Company Maturity Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

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.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010. Why was this once-dominant player unable to execute and maintain its market position? This is a book for the times we live in—and one that for many companies could mean the difference between success and failure.

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

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.

Document 11

Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Our goal might be to sell more of our products online. The vendor can make the website, deliver it on time and on budget, and even make it beautiful to look at and easy to use, but it may not achieve our goal, which is to sell more of our products online. Launching early achieved two goals. The website is the output.

Project 8

Project Management Uncertainty Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Each branch makes its own loan decisions, sets its own pricing on loans and deposits, controls its own marketing budget, runs its own website (on a shared platform), and serves all customer segments — from individuals to multinationals — within its catchment area.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

While social stuff is often associated with marketing or customer service, social can affect every part of the business model , including how we organize. The seven full time employees form a nucleus, or core group to handle program management, operations, and communications. And that would be interesting enough. Is that scary?

Participative 15

Participative Decentralization Globalization Cost Center 15

Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

One can hardly imagine a decentralized decision- making process in his operations. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. Everyone in this model knows the goals of the organization and where they fit. Many-market organization. Single market. GE and HCL.

Succession 113

Succession Welch Leadership Diversity 113

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The market for smart technologies is predicted to be worth up to $1.6 To answer these questions, we began with a simple premise: Neither “smartness” nor the technology to be deployed is the end goal. It used technology to build out its government services and embrace a market economy. trillion by 2020, and $3.5

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Globalization Technology Policies 10