Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. process that uses structures of control systems, incentives, and sanctions that keep the organization in compliance. This leads us to take the high ground.

Politics 15

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

After Derek joined, they’d worked together on further risk management—establishing a central division to set policy, ensure compliance, and evaluate projects worth € 100 million or more and creating an executive council of market and industry experts to advise on budgets and other strategic issues.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8