The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

What’s more, the authors also believe that the UK lacks the physical or IT infrastructure to successfully manage the new relationship with the EU and is instead relying on transitional arrangements to make things work. “Our research shows Brexit will pose long-term challenges for standards of medicines in the UK.

Report 141

Report Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 141

Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2019

I work with creativity and innovation in companies, and I’m frustrated. Not one, and I’ve worked with some of the most backwards bureaucracies in the world, and with innovation in North Korea to boot. There are many reasons for this, with my famous impatience being near the top of the list, but one things stands above the rest.

Company 56

Company Idea Generation Innovation Workshop 56

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The new work contract – where employees take responsibility for their own careers and corporations provide them with career-enhancing but impermanent opportunities – can be as difficult for organizations to manage as it is for individuals. We must manage our human assets with the same rigor we devote to our financial assets.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. Effective organization design creates connections among the many competing objectives of a large company – balancing global and local authority, setting up good, creative conflict. Talented people thrive on that kind of energy. Kates says.

Development 112

Development Bureaucracy Globalization Middle Management 112

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Managers assess performance. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. Managers assess performance. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K. Power trickles down.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Today, most people work in some sort of bureaucracy — and according to Gallup, 85% of employees around the world feel disengaged from their work.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Everybody hates it, but so much of life is ruled by it: bureaucracy. That's why we launched the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge. We asked management innovators around the world to share their stories and hacks about: Making organizations more inspiring, engaging, and passion-driven. Managing without managers.

Bureaucracy 13

Bureaucracy McKinsey Compliance Innovation 13

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. These were the groups we found most innovative, collaborative, and receptive to new ideas, as well as to sharing their own ideas. Our opposition.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 8

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. Today Atis manages L’Oréal’s Women of Color Lab, in Clark, New Jersey. The prize?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Ferose became the managing director of SAP Labs India, one of fifteen global R&D centers of the German software giant SAP. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000. In April 2010, V.R.

Innovation 8

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

For industries that depend on innovation, sustaining it is a constant challenge. These two actions cost almost nothing compared to vast sums often spent — and arguably, often wasted — on efforts to foster innovation. However, these prescriptions for innovation at Roivant have also led to some unexpected challenges.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

What do your innovators want? Earlier this month, we invited the HBR community on Twitter to share their personal insights into what they need to be at their most innovative. A spirited conversation followed, one whose very richness demonstrates just what a challenge fostering innovation really is. Bureaucracy".

Innovation 11

Innovation Bureaucracy Definition Creativity 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Since 2006, hundreds of companies — including global brands like Novartis , Hewlett-Packard , and Rolls Royce — have reached settlements with U.S. ” Of course, copying what your competitors do — especially when it is illegal and inefficient – is the opposite of innovative. .”

Management 8

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Entrepreneurship aids economic vitality by getting rid of complacent incumbents, accelerating innovation, and creating jobs. In fact, one could argue that the unicorn surge over the past five years is largely the result of a once-in-a-lifetime event: the emergence of that globally ubiquitous communication platform, the smartphone.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

So how do people — and even dogs — routinely manage it? Managers under pressure to make many decisions can''t subject every one of them to thorough and dispassionate analysis. This is the kind of thinking that business managers can also profit from. Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

” Choices about whether and how to use money to remedy social problems should be left to individuals, he argued, who would be in better position to provide it if they were not being in effect taxed by corporate managers who thought they had better ideas for how to spend it. The tight focus on generating returns drove many gains.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Cluster hammers had never been used to such depths — and never in Chile at all — but in a striking display of openness, the managers of the rescue operation tried the suggestion, which proved to be a key decision in bringing all 33 miners to safety. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center. Missing the forest for the trees.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We announced the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. According to Management 2.0 Rite-Solutions' innovation engine demonstrates that leaders are willing to take direction from the crowd. Paul Green, Jr.,

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy. laura schneider FOR HBR.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

In 1994, the dominant global provider of mobile handsets was Motorola: its shares were trading at an all-time high and it was seen as an outstanding innovator and even described by a senior consultant at A. Kearney as "the best-managed company in the world" — not so different from Apple today.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

There is no question that big data and AI will bring about important advances in the realm of management, especially as it relates to being able to make better-informed 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

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

ROE 10

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

We couldn’t agree more about the need for innovation. Highly mobile populations, the spread of Ebola into densely populated cities, and the need to simultaneously manage multiple outbreaks across disparate localities have made this “epidemic of many outbreaks” difficult to control. In September 2014, the U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies. Amazon Web Services’ success strengthens Amazon’s retail business by building scale and world-class abilities in computing and large data management. Establish a repeatable formula.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As Machiavelli pointed out in The Prince roughly 500 years ago, there is no constituency for innovation: "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." How have you seen people react to changes in their work?

Process 15

Process Bureaucracy Innovation Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. This means moving aggressively away from fee-for service payment to global-risk-adjusted payments. Most care-delivery systems today don’t have processes for innovation and problem solving.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

GM’s bankruptcy and bailout four years ago earned it the nickname “Government Motors,” a reference to both the $80 billion lent by the US government (repaid in full in December, 2013) and to the bureaucratic, top-down management GM executives had used to try to reverse the company’s tailspin. Innovation is always the product of teaming.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 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

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

Organization 8

Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 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 8

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. During that decade, we estimate, the company captured more than 90 percent of the market’s global profits and seemed poised to maintain its leadership for years to come. Leadership & Managing People Book.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. It was with this in mind that Russell Reynolds profiled executives tasked with digitally transforming long-established firms, who are often chosen to overcome organizational inertia and drive enterprise-wide digital transformation and innovation. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

A recent study by three professors at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management is part of a growing mountain of evidence of the superior and more lasting performance of companies where the founder still plays a significant role as CEO, chairman, board member, or owner or adviser. This begs the question, why? And engagement matters.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8