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 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. True, there are many companies offering services such as data analytics, help with creating viral campaigns, social-media mining, and search-engine optimization. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it. The hierarchy is still in place.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Look at WhatsApp, which had 55 employees (35 of them engineers) and reached more than 450 million users when it was acquired by Facebook in 2014. Today, while the number of users has doubled, its engineering workforce has grown only to 50. Smart headcount growth that optimizes technology is essential. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 8

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. Barra began her career at the old GM as a young student engineer. Mary Barra is good for GM first and foremost because she’s an engineer who cares about cars. This is a new GM. This situation was untenable.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

It was, in part, the rise of the technology industry that gave charm a new urgency, because tech companies needed managers on the inside who were "technical and charismatic." Indeed, "perhaps only in Silicon Valley would a group of engineers think they could hack their way to charisma with a series of neuroscientific shortcuts."

Charisma 8

Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Amazon’s greatest competitive advantage is not its e-commerce network; it is its innovation engine. These teams value creative working environments more than hierarchical bureaucracies, working prototypes over excessive documentation, customer collaboration over fixed specifications, and responding to change over adherence to plans.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

That first group, the New Left, believed in bureaucracy, believed in hierarchy, believed in organizations. The second group, the New Communalists, believed in doing away with all of those things and turning instead to small-scale technologies, LSD, Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, etc. We would no longer need rules.

Information Technology 11

Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

It’s widely believed that Modi, just as he did in Gujarat, will try to tame India’s sclerotic, corrupt, and self-serving bureaucracy by eliminating archaic laws and regulations, and by using technology to eliminate their discretionary powers. Still, India has a chance to return to the path of rapid economic development.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager. Here’s the problem.

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat. The entrepreneurial society. Managing the transition.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

Many of the thousands of highly qualified engineers either started companies or joined growing startups — it did not take too many talented people with experience in developing advanced technology products to turbocharge Israel's entrepreneurial revolution.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Restructuring Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. The clients don’t have to own or maintain the technology. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. It is the algorithms that will create value for the business.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 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. In the 1990s, for example, Nokia rocketed to the top of the handset market. Adapted from.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

The primary target of Lepore’s attack was Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, whose groundbreaking book, The Innovator’s Dilemma coined the term disruptive technology (later transformed into disruptive innovation ). In the past, bureaucracies played a crucial coordinating role.

Christensen 8

Christensen Disruptive Innovation Bureaucracy Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Those seven entries offer compelling evidence that the principles, social structures, and social technologies of the web not only offer up winning business models, they are the building blocks of a new management model for making organizations more resilient, inventive, and engaging.

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

billion global IT services firm, HCL Technologies, puts it: "The CEO should be the Chief Question Asker, not the final provider of answers." Share it here and join the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge to share your stories, ideas, and practices about what it takes to make our organizations more inspiring, open and free.

Organization 15

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

The nerds’ power was sharply amplified: Massive investments required the centralized engineering of business processes, putting all the control in the hands of a cohort of experts. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

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

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

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. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. Bad Work, Poor Planning.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

From a departmental perspective, under 20% of accounting and IT staffers want to be challenged, while 43% of the engineering department does. Banking, technology, and consulting would be price sensitive, while manufacturing, health care, real estate, and fashion are price conscious. #5: The answer is yes.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 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. GM will keep its technology center in Bangalore.

CEO 10

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

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 based internet companies and continued antitrust complaints by EU regulators.

Advertising 11

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In fact, to date, there is no AI technology that is fully able to factor in the emotional, human, and political context needed to automate decisions. AI technologies can provide managers and employees with accurate data and predictions at their fingertips to support and enable the right decisions in a timely way.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Tools Marketing Agility 8