Budgeting, Bureaucracy, Operations and Technology

Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. There’s no other way to put it: bureaucracy must die.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital

Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. There’s no other way to put it: bureaucracy must die.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital

How I Led Change in the U.S. State Department Bureaucracy

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

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale

Who's Moving Their Company Beyond Bureaucracy?

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

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO

What It Takes to Innovate Within a Corporate Bureaucracy

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. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage

How Rio de Janeiro Uses Tech to Solve Urban Challenges

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value. Investments in technology were so low for so long that we were having technological blackouts with frequency. Nowadays, technology is at the core of our urban planning and management of public policies.

Software

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis

Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

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

Cost System Management Franchising

The Corporate HQ Is an Anachronism

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. Technology has compressed time, costs, and distance considerably. The time has come for us to rethink this concentration of leadership.

Agility

Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software

Don't Get Tough with China, Get Even

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

Bureaucracy Globalization Committee Fashion

The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S. Bad Work, Poor Planning.

Crisis

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting

Aligning Your Organization with an Agile Workforce

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Google and Intel rely on experts in social science and biomechanics to develop transformative products by better understanding how people think about and use technology. Too often, purchasing departments manage the selection while operating managers—not involved in selection by fiat—are expected to make the relationship work.

Agility

Agility Organization Resources Fixed Costs

What I Learned from Transforming the U.S. Military’s Approach to Talent

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

When Americans reflect on what makes their military the best, it is not just its unrivaled technology, the nearly $600 billion dollars per year we spend on it, its compelling mission, or our network of global allies. At a time of economic, technological, and labor evolutions, organizations have to change to compete for the best talent.

Talent Management

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training

Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock.

Engineering

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer

GDPR and the End of the Internet’s Grand Bargain

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based Full Text of the Regulations.

Advertising

Advertising Cost Business Model Information

The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. 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. .’ What they’re really selling: Paging equipment. We Earn It.

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The Corporate HQ Is an Anachronism

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