Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

It was as if "strategy" was synonymous with a long-drawn-out, badly managed budgeting process. But all too often, the budget-planning monster weighs an organization down with endless inputs and bureaucracy and rules. So how can strategy free itself from the budget-planning monster? Reframe strategy as a story.

Budgeting 15

Budgeting Process Strategy Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Department of State is a seriously big bureaucracy. My experience as a digital leader in the Obama administration confirmed my optimism that change can come to large bureaucracies. There are critical government services that should not fail, such as processing taxes, military operations, or counting votes.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. Eliminating layers of management.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. Windham and her colleagues proceeded on their own time and with a very limited budget.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The term Budgeting gets tossed around in many ways. Budgets get blamed for gridlock. Budgets get politicized. Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. Budgeting by itself is a minor piece of business strategy. by Hank Moore.

Strategic Planning 69

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 69

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

What’s more, the authors also believe that the UK lacks the physical or IT infrastructure to successfully manage the new relationship with the EU and is instead relying on transitional arrangements to make things work. “Our research shows Brexit will pose long-term challenges for standards of medicines in the UK.

Report 141

Report Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 141

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

As mayor of Rio de Janeiro, I brought this belief to the government and introduced many technological innovations to modernize public management, in spite of skepticism and an incorrect perception about spending on technology. Nowadays, technology is at the core of our urban planning and management of public policies.

Software 14

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The next rung of leaders who operate from different geographies or second-tier P&Ls often have to converge on this center of gravity for reviews and the occasional reprimand. Once-a-year rituals like budgeting and strategic planning, which were important tasks for the senior-most leaders in the company, are a thing of the past.

Agility 8

Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Managers in these companies understand that agile, fast, and lean strategies require that they think in new ways about accessing and leveraging key strategic talent and filling critical gaps in strategic capabilities. ” Most managers would never dream of treating externals like internals. Internal-external competition.

Agility 8

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Current management of both companies were ill-advised on handling the crises. Don’t have sufficient management skills or resources to do something well. Those We Bring Upon Ourselves.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

A case like Riley’s would make any leader take a hard look at his institution’s talent management, but it is particularly worrying at the Defense Department. We learned that we would need to change the way we used analytics and data and the way we managed our personnel processes.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". Even better.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. million managers, first-line supervisors, and administrators in the American workforce in 2014. Here’s the arithmetic.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. reset the budgets. redesign the operating model. reset the budgets.

Zero Based Budgeting 12

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cluster hammers had never been used to such depths — and never in Chile at all — but in a striking display of openness, the managers of the rescue operation tried the suggestion, which proved to be a key decision in bringing all 33 miners to safety. billion people to be added by 2050, the status quo is now untenable.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). Internet companies have had over a decade to integrate basic data collection and use safeguards into their operations, including limiting the data they collect and adopting international information security standards. Full Text of the Regulations. GDPR Explained (CNET).

Advertising 10

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 10

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

My analysis: Productivity software does no good unless one commits to change, alters behavioral traits and commits to time management. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills. My analysis: Managing data and managing doctors (which is tough to do) are not the same thing.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Rogier Maes, the CEO of Contect, wrapped up his year-beginning speech to all the company’s employees.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000. In April 2010, V.R.

Innovation 8

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

One of the great innovations in business, which has held sway since 1976, is the idea that professional managers should have an owner’s mindset—that is, they should treat their company’s money as if it were their own. They loathe bureaucracy that traps resources and slows decision making.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Budgeting Long-term 8