Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

By now we’re all familiar with examples of small and lean digital companies popping up out of nowhere and outcompeting larger, established companies. Insurgent startups, such as Instagram and Snapchat, manage to operate with far fewer resources than legacy companies in the same industry in the “pre-digital” era.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. As the failures piled up, so did the stories of mounting bureaucracy, back-stabbing, and top management "living in a different world".

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Many companies are attempting a radical — and often rapid — shift from hierarchical structures to more agile environments, in order to operate at the speed required by today’s competitive marketplace. So it began having daily 20-minute stand-ups at 8:40 a.m. This takes time.

Agility 8

Agility White Paper How To Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The nations on Europe's periphery can grow sustainably only if they significantly increase the ability of their economies — and ultimately their firms — to innovate, reduce the distorting role of the public sector through incumbent protection and needless bureaucracy, and improve the way their public sectors use their resources.

Long-term 8

Long-term Crisis Politics Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Henry Beyer walked up to a Mini Cooper in the city parking lot across the street from his office in downtown Houston. It looks like someone left something behind," his colleague Tony Cummins said, reaching into the back and picking up a pair of socks. Henry was the senior vice president of operations. He laughed; Henry grimaced.

Case Study 8

Case Study Brand How To Beyer 8

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

But one of the best ways to adopt the bottom-up management style. Leaders can help establish this by rewarding team members for speaking up and making suggestions, independent of quality, and modeling behaviors that demonstrate vulnerability, such as admitting mistakes.

Silverman 51

Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

The dark, freezing air rushes in and swirls around the Special Operations Forces (SOF) team that stands on the ramp of the aircraft, ready to jump. SOF’s critical first step was recognizing that our operating model needed to shift. The cargo door of an aircraft opens at 25,000 feet. You and Your Team. Leading Teams.

Team 8

Team Efficiency Bureaucracy Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

But many companies struggle to come up with enough promising growth options. Some focus their best people on finding ways to squeeze out more profitability from existing operations, rather than creating new businesses. A flood of great ideas goes into the top of the funnel, but only a trickle emerges from the bottom.

ROE 13

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 13

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2012

Sales went up and the company went into the black. The fact that giant companies don’t operate this way opens the door for the smaller competitor. Businesses who live by these 5 bargains are the ones who enjoy success – both in the journey and the bottom-line destination. Creativity. But, beware.

Bureaucracy 245

Bureaucracy Constraint Creativity Discount 245

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. This belief led Ferose to overhaul SAP Labs India's hierarchical, 'top-heavy' corporate culture, allowing bottom-up creativity and innovation to blossom.

Innovation 8

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Products and services assist the bureaucracy to do its job more efficiently but cannot claim credit for Big Picture success of a client’s entire industry. They make up by increasing rates of advertisers…offering cause-related marketing packages as incentives. ‘Brewing solutions for a better environment.’

Brand 51

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 51

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

When a whale dies, the 30-100 ton body — or "whale fall" — slowly, silently sinks to the ocean bottom where it becomes the wellspring of a complex new microcosm of seabed flora and fauna that can thrive for well over half a century. In India in the late 1970s there was a similar story.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Restructuring Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Under the guise of acting like owners, many leaders operate as bureaucrats or, far worse, in some cases as personal-wealth maximizers. In fact, companies that are in the top 20% of performers are four or five times more likely than the bottom 20% to exhibit these three attributes. But there is a problem with the owner’s mindset.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Budgeting Long-term 8