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

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 12

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time. Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

More specifically, they employ a diverse combination of capabilities to solve problems that aren’t being addressed by organizations as part of their everyday operations. Windham and her colleagues proceeded on their own time and with a very limited budget. They are driven by passion.

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. Running a bureaucracy.

Strategic Planning 67

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 67

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. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

Cost 10

Cost System Management Franchising 10

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The authors argue that the UK authorities that are designed to replace their EU counterparts are largely ill-equipped to do so, not least due to a lack of staffing and insufficient budget. They also lack the powers to effectively inspect and enforce, while also suffering from a loss of data in areas such as policing and border control.

Report 140

Report Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 140

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

We are also progressively increasing the IT share on our municipal budget because we know the value technology can bring to raise efficiency and improve the quality of services to citizens. But the main challenge is not how to operate the machine. We built it in a partnership with IBM, Oracle, Samsung and other companies.

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

MARCH 7, 2012

President Obama has established an Interagency Trade Enforcement Committee with a $27 million budget to hit back at unfair trade. Because China's bureaucracy has great discretionary authority, it can intimidate U.S. Getting tough on China is becoming a popular idea. It's easy to understand why this sentiment has become so strong.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Globalization Committee Cooper 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Too often, purchasing departments manage the selection while operating managers—not involved in selection by fiat—are expected to make the relationship work. They feel unappreciated by management and powerless in dealing with the administrative bureaucracy of partner organizations. Adapted from. Agile Talent. Add to Cart.

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. Miscalculations, manmade disasters, natural disasters, shifting resources, changing marketplaces, regulations, bureaucracies. In the 1990s, another international conglomerate purchased Bridgestone-Firestone.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

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. Petersburg, Russia, last November, a confident entrepreneur publicly challenged a famous priest: "With such a large purchasing budget, what is the church doing to buy from entrepreneurs?"

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

And we planned and budgeted to launch a new advertising and marketing campaign, which still awaits congressional approval, to employ predictive analytics and microtargeting, similar to those used in consumer marketing, to reach Americans who may not have previously considered military service.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. reset the budgets. redesign the operating model. reset the budgets. redesign the operating model. Reset the Budgets. How many still believe they can make a difference?

Zero Based Budgeting 13

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 13

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. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Here’s the arithmetic. Doing so would free up 12.5

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

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 11

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 11

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2012

The fact that giant companies don’t operate this way opens the door for the smaller competitor. Whining about the economy, budget constraints, and low-cost competition does nothing to improve a company’s well-being. Bureaucracy lurks on the periphery, waiting for its opening to subvert the lean, mean, business machine.

Bureaucracy 245

Bureaucracy Constraint Creativity Discount 245

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Frustrated employees were complaining about the lack of amenities — such as child care facilities — on campus and the stifling bureaucracy which, for instance, made expense reimbursment a time-consuming process. Another team of employees designed and deployed a daycare for working mothers.

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

When my organization, Education For Employment , began operations in 2006 as a demand-driven answer to Arab youth unemployment, I felt that creating a social franchise model was the best way to meaningfully address an issue of this scale. In regions in turmoil, this can be the difference between expanding operations and closing shop.

Franchising 8

Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 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. Doing nothing causes much more organizational damage than making mistakes while operating in good faith. ‘Brewing solutions for a better environment.’ We Earn It.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

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. Companies with a strong founder’s mentality focus relentlessly on freeing up cash from their operations, but not so that they can hoard it or return it to creditors or shareholders.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Budgeting Long-term 8