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. Thus, needed process changes within bureaucracies should always be built into such initiatives.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 8

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. Successful change requires strong leadership, working in lockstep with good people to move the rest of the organization in the right direction.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 11

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. At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. These can evolve into group-level behaviors.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Five things differentiate the former from the latter: Bureaucracy and politics. Plus, there is not yet a legal or compliance department to seek approval from.). But so is understanding the context in which you’re operating, the partners you need to be effective, and how the risks and rewards are different from entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Innovation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. 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.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8