Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? They are sometimes better positioned to give you advice on which new tools could be beneficial for your organization or discuss issues they might be facing. The answer is yes.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2014

My advice: start by identifying which items fall into each of four buckets: Fat Rabbits, Quick Wins, Rocks, and Who Cares. Decentralization reality vs. having one ABC Company strategy, are in conflict. Perhaps you have just been given a challenge to solve by your leader. Analyze internal/external labor demographics/pipelines.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

So, open the channels of communication and decentralize decision-making. Feel free to check out our insights section for more actionable tips and advice. Most notably, Agile doesn’t go well with rigid, top-down hierarchies. In fact, it entices you to dismantle them. This is just one major hurdle you need to remove from the picture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

” If you’re dealing with innovations that have led to a dominant new business model in your industry, that advice is sound, as the leaders of Netflix and Blockbuster can tell you. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Much of the advice out there is about simplifying things – delayering, decentralizing, streamlining product lines, creating stronger processes for ensuring alignment, and so on. But this advice has a couple of problems. But perhaps the bigger problem is this advice is all offered with the mentality of an architect or engineer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

But the message never got through to their supposedly practical colleagues who so eagerly push advice about almost anything. How could decentralized trading move markets to equilibrium if there is only one good? Most never even heard what the theorists said, or else resolutely ignored it. But it is pure assumption.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Much of Charan’s recent work has tilted towards organization and people (books on strategy execution, leadership pipeline, talent and advice on intensity, change, leadership traits, performance management, governance). In diversified organizations HR departments should be run like professional services firms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

His goal, like many of the leaders we interviewed, is to establish a presence that reliably represents who he is and what he stands for so that in the decentralized world of autonomous teams — that his company’s software has helped create — people can formulate strategy, make decisions and deal with ambiguity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Decentralization. The business literature is unfortunately rife with advice to "learn from failures." While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Here is some advice on how to tap into supply chains for successful scale-up: Reveal more than is comfortable. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however. Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Innovate and invest, even when it hurts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Its priorities on creating an open and decentralized system that links multiple digital applications and services are core to how it accomplished these outcomes. Its e-solutions have resulted in high levels of government transparency and easy access to data and public services.

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