Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

When Dan Akerson became CEO in 2010, he brought a bit of daylight into the hallowed halls, breaking down siloes to urge collaboration between departments that had long stopped talking to each other — engineering and parts buyers, product development and purchasing, to name some especially critical relationships.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people.

Innovation 130

Innovation Software Industry Politics 130

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

An engineer with a diemaker father who worked in a Pontiac plant, Barra is a 33-year company veteran. In her current job as executive vice president of global product development, she is responsible for the lineup of the future and the components that will make cars greener, safer, more user-friendly. This is a new GM.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Almost every CEO I’ve talked to, before and after the polls, believes that Modi is a shrewd, pragmatic, and decisive leader, who can kick-start economic growth and development in India by fostering a more business-friendly policy environment. Still, India has a chance to return to the path of rapid economic development.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months. To understand this strength, take a look at the sample of innovations in the table below. of sales) on “technology and content.”

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

The most commonly cited ways to do this include making it easier to file the paperwork to start a business, and reducing the amount of administrative bureaucracy and restrictions that entrepreneurs encounter. San Francisco requires entrepreneurs to submit to more bureaucracy than almost any other city. Yet, one U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Real Estate B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

The most commonly cited ways to do this include making it easier to file the paperwork to start a business, and reducing the amount of administrative bureaucracy and restrictions that entrepreneurs encounter. San Francisco requires entrepreneurs to submit to more bureaucracy than almost any other city. Yet, one U.S.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Real Estate B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Convinced that they have a sustainable competitive advantage (always a risky way to think about your business), executives allow bureaucracy to take over and decision-making to become sclerotic. Eliminate bureaucracy. Chris Zook and James Allen have also recently tackled this issue their recent HBR article “ Reigniting Growth.”

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Over time, teams adopted an even more aggressive approach to software development called “ continuous delivery , ” a highly automated method that enables them to make many small changes per day.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

As Moises Naim describes in The End of Power , travelling around the vast country for three months, he believed that it represented “the last time in the long-lasting history of mankind that so favourable conditions for a free and grand development will exist.” Here’s what you need to know.

Organization 8

Organization Bureaucracy Network Organization Informal Structure 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

They should be senior and experienced enough to be respected by both internal and external team members, and sufficient clout to cut through the bureaucracy as needed. ” Petroleum and mining organizations have long employed roles like chief geologist or chief engineer. Create the role of “external talent manager.”

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Ideas should progress through stages of a lab (develop and test in a simulated environment), to pilot (a small test in the real world to prove and evolve the concept), to rollout ("global" implementation). Front line workers need broad empowerment to address problems with a minimum of bureaucracy.

Process 15

Process Bureaucracy Innovation Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

” This is a framework I have developed over the course of 35 years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world. They have mentoring programs for high school students… Elfin’s self-engineered turn around became a very important symbol [of reducing bureaucracy].

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

By bringing customer development closer to the marketplace and enabling rapid learning from failure, the lean start-up movement has great potential to increase the success rate of new ventures. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. They are obsessed with the details of the business and celebrate the employees at the front line, who deal directly with customers. Adapted from. The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. He built a team to develop Predix, a cloud-based platform that underlies all of GE’s industrial businesses. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Buffett prefers to accept the visible costs of "a few bad decisions" than incur "the invisible costs of stifling bureaucracies." In 2009, he confessed to developing an ill-conceived plan to market GEICO credit cards and also failed to rein in NetJets' debt, which had soared to $1.9 He annually reports on his own mistakes.

Letter 14

Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 14

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. So what is holding these engineers back?

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

Robert Sutton, a professor of management science and engineering at Stanford University and the author of Good Boss, Bad Boss and coauthor with Huggy Rao of the forthcoming Scaling Up Excellence , agrees. Over time, they were able to develop a trusting relationship where Kevin kept his emotions in check and Chris felt heard.

Management 13

Management How To Case Study Learning-by-Doing 13

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development. Miscalculations, manmade disasters, natural disasters, shifting resources, changing marketplaces, regulations, bureaucracies.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

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. If bureaucracy is as ubiquitous in these economies as it is in the U.S., Here’s the arithmetic. share was $32 trillion.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

To succeed in India, an American company either needs to have robust electronic communication processes at the top management level or must be willing to set its leaders in India free of the bureaucracy at corporate headquarters, so that they can address local issues and opportunities. Local autonomy makes important decisions possible.

CEO 10

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

In our experience, companies still focus more on cutting costs than on developing and executing new growth strategies. 3M, for example, has long allowed engineers to devote 15% of their time to skunkworks projects, without supervisor approval.) So if companies should value growth more than margins these days, why don’t they?

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

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.

Innovation 9

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. Hierarchies have long been under attack because of their supposed inability to adjust quickly to new developments in markets and consumer interests, because of their supposed high cost, and because silos slow the flow of ideas and information.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In his story about software company Rite Solutions' innovation engine, a stock market-like forum for new ideas and collaborative platform for channeling development effort around the best, Lavoie suggests that it's not technology but first principles that make every person feel relevant and fully invested in the future of the company.

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In an era when every young, gifted programmer, engineer, or entrepreneur's first instinct was to write their own business plan or head to a fast-growing startup, life as a foot soldier in Big Blue's global army was a pretty hard sell. Asking good questions trades control for contribution. What's your question?

Organization 15

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

While GDPR is certain to improve choice, control, and transparency for EU consumers, these new powers come with new responsibilities and new costs for users, not least of which are ballooning budgets for government data management and enforcement bureaucracies worldwide. And governments are hardly the experts on data security.

Advertising 11

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

3M and Google, among others, have given "innovation time off" to their scientists and engineers. There is also a "sweat the small stuff" day, once a quarter, for getting on top of the creeping bureaucracy and niggling problems that accumulate over time. So a more focused approach may be more worthwhile. Loosely defined roles.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

In August 1987, for example, under severe United States pressure, the Israel government abruptly and controversially cancelled the Lavi fighter development project that was to be Israel's answer to the F-16 and the societal equivalent of NASA's moon program.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Restructuring Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

If I ask you to name the major causes of stress in your work life, you would probably say things like deadlines, a heavy workload, bureaucracy, or your terrible boss. Rely on routines. You can't be going through the day distracted by trivia. –President Obama, Vanity Fair. Take five (or ten) minutes to do something you find interesting.

Stress 8

Stress Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar Foundation Research, Development and Innovation strives to develop innovative solutions, both for the unique challenges faced by the nation, but also those of the wider world. Curating inspiration. So what lessons can be learned from both countries?

Resources 78

Resources Innovation GDP Education 78

Mark Sanborn

MARCH 22, 2022

It is also about developing a mindset and skillset that enables team members to be confident that regardless of what happens, there is a way to respond successfully. These are the things that develop practical confidence. Don’t let bureaucracy, slow decision making and outdated rules slow the process.

Agility 100

Agility Contingency Plans Crisis Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

But even if an AI system gives an employee super-powered intelligence, it won’t be enough to make a timely decision if the company’s internal bureaucracy requires time-consuming pre-authorization from senior managers before acting on the decision. Another case is Unilever. But in many companies, AI use is still highly centralized.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Tools Marketing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

An inspiring story of transformation from a traditional bureaucracy to a vibrant innovation culture in which the insights and observations of every individual from edge to edge not only matter, but produce immediate impact and make the organization continuously smarter. by Ashley Good, Engineers Without Borders Canada. Fail Forward.

Innovation 8

Innovation Core Competence McKinsey Armstrong 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

In 1987, a Portuguese audio engineer named Fernando Duarte took a friend, South African entrepreneur Robbie Brozin, to a small takeout restaurant in a suburb of Johannesburg. Few business leaders have developed this attention to the front line as effectively as M.S. Robbie Brozin and the insurgent mission. Their bias is toward action.

Company 8

Company Hotels Supply Chain Long-term 8