Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

The nature of the workforce is rapidly changing and this new wave of employees is not only getting accustomed to a mobile and agile workforce but are starting to actually expect it. But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? The answer is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The consultant has a solution: decentralize. We’re too decentralized. What we don’t see is that it makes more sense to balance practicality and innovation, boldness and prudence, collaborativeness and self-reliance, agility and consistency — without choosing sides between them. amriphoto/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Thus, centralized firms more quickly rid themselves of unsuccessful products – almost twice as fast as their more decentralized peers. However, employees in a decentralized decision making structure must engage in constant communication to understand the factors affecting each other’s decisions and to properly coordinate exit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Decentralized departmental budgets, therefore, lead to considerable under-investment in innovative technologies that create benefits across the entire cycle of care. Not all hospital services would need to be incorporated into this more decentralized structure. Heads of the various service lines/IPUs (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to include all the right stakeholders in their processes. This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. But effective agility frequently demands inclusive stakeholder involvement.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We need this kind of leadership from top to bottom on in our enterprises: on each team, in each role, at every level; whether organized around project or products, agile scrum or lean start-up; whether teams are fully co-located or spread out globally; whether focused on apps, apis, or IoT. The results will be amazing, rewarding, and fun.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Can organizations be both agile and scalable? The pursuit of economies of scale has led to efficiencies, but also a loss of speed and agility. The new enemy was a light, agile, and rapidly evolving network. In nature, there's a tradeoff between size and speed. Whales are slow. Birds are fast. Is it possible?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

They told us they were ready for a more horizontal, agile, “connect and inspire” model as compared to the “command and control” model the boomers are used to. They reflect a renewed emphasis on acceleration, agility, and customer focus. Employee engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. This became the “HP Way,” one of the first examples of empowering employees, decentralizing the organization, and tying pay to performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

All this drove home the point that we need to be more agile in extreme-growth markets. In a "flat" world, we no longer think about being centralized or decentralized. As a new crossroads of global travel, Dubai will soon be home to the world's busiest international airport. Globalization is changing how companies need to think.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

They have to be agile in their approach to use surprise against VUCA to impair its ability to cause unwanted and unnecessary chaos. They must be willing to decentralize their decision?making shifting results. point scale: Who?What? Why to ensure performance gaps are addressed and VUCA is eliminated.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 20, 2019

It perhaps goes without saying that such work requires significant computing power, and the team get around that by utilizing decentralized computing platforms that distribute the workload across multiple computing nodes rather than a centralized server.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Drawing on the software development practices known as Agile, Scrum, and XP, the teams work in short, iterative cycles of test-driven development with direct customer feedback as the work proceeds.). Similarly, telling workers what to do at every turn won''t lead to the degree of agility that organizations now need.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

With the shift towards a more democratic work culture, management is evolving towards decentralization– emphasizing proactive and watchful guidance. Restructuring traditional governance models is necessary to enhance strategic agility and resilience against emerging challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

Big data and analytics can make organizations more efficient and agile by empowering middle-level and far-flung managers to make decisions and seize business opportunities that previously required scarce data and executive approval.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Deloitte argue that just as software development has shifted from the waterfall model to a more agile approach, learning needs to move from a standalone activity to one that incorporates learning on the job and integrates it into our workflow.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2017

This approach is evident in, for example, agile software development methods. These teams are characterized by broad, open sharing of expertise and by decentralized decision making. They decentralized design expertise when identifying solutions, and then centralized technical expertise to build them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Remember: No matter how large Contect gets, it will stay agile and motivated. But the decentralization debate was different. “He’s calling it ‘holacracy,’” she said, “but that’s still just decentralizing, which we can’t do any further. And here’s to an even better 2017!”

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Deploy technology systematically – Interestingly, the authors suggest that whether you use a traditional waterfall method or a more modern agile approach to deployment is largely irrelevant, with the key being to deploy the technology systematically rather than in an adhoc manner.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Responding effectively to such threats will require a paradigm shift towards approaches that are faster and more agile and decentralized than what exists now. If a highly contagious agent were released in a major city, it could spread far and wide and kill thousands before it is even clear what is happening.

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