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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The cooperation loop is a mindset of working to find cooperation …any size large and small and develop practice of building from that cooperation. The finance team in a Health Care Company. started by asking: What do you want the people in sales and the project managers to do? We know the Resistance Loop.

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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

ERP systems, RFID , knowledge management, business intelligence) have washed over organizations. This trend toward ever more critical reliance on IT is not only transforming the idea and practice of corporate IT, but has disruptive operational implications for every manager. Now, instead, at ING they say, "Here''s your team.

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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Since the 1980s, however, Games organizing committees have increasingly invested in teams and systems dedicated to the management of risk through internal controls.

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. electronic tumor conferences), the service was developed and operationalized internally and then extended to members. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

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“Leadership Qualities” vs. Competence: Which Matters More?

Harvard Business Review

The other authors on the article are Murat Taraki (lead author) and Patrick Groenen, both at the Rotterdam School of Management. Greer : First, we wanted to understand when it’s ideal to have a strong hierarchy, and when it’s better to let groups manage themselves. What lessons should managers take away from these studies?

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

If we hope for better management of large-scale endeavors, our models will have to look beyond what it takes to inform individual, or even organizational, moves. Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.