HR Digest

MAY 2, 2024

Image: Google Do Google Layoffs Suggest They Might Start Decentralizing Resources from the U.S.? CNBC reported that in continuation of that news, Prabhakar Raghavan from the company had stated that Google would move some jobs to Bangalore and Mexico City to build teams closer to their users in key markets, including India and Brazil.

Trends 59

Trends Decentralization CFO Bureaucracy 59

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Hence The Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. Is it possible for an organization to be highly decentralized and precisely synchronized? We need organizations where control comes less from rules and sanctions, and more from norms and peers. Can it be automated?

Organization 9

Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

We focused on the generations in eight countries, including the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), some of the most important markets for talent over the next decade, as well as one country from the Middle East. We also examined two European countries, the U.K.

Education 14

Education White Paper Compliance Politics 14

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. trillion, of which the non-U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But the decentralization debate was different. Rogier knew Derek’s position—but he had gone to an executive training course on holacracy in Las Vegas and had come back so fired up that he was now pushing for self-managed teams at headquarters and complete decentralization at the country level. ” Henning Weighs In.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Ford still may have produced the best car for the money, but Sloan’s GM trounced Ford Motors by producing the best product lines for the market. The “organization men,” as sociologist and writer William Whyte called the troop of managers who populated these bureaucracies, expected lifetime employment in a single firm.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 8