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 11

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 11

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Culture and Mission : values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Appointed agency heads in a government bureaucracy. Firms which package and market services. 7 Levels of Authority Figure. Self Appointed.

Advice 57

Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

What if that person were retasked to evaluate what the fair market value of the transport of media is? Aside from a couple of Office Space references it drives home that there is such a thing as diminishing returns on bureaucracy. Unbelievable — but not surprising, considering the source. to go before I could refresh.

USP 185

USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. For example, when a global brand manager and a local sales organization share responsibilities, and are rewarded for working together, they will fight for their interests so that both the global brand and the local market are addressed.

Development 112

Development Bureaucracy Globalization Middle Management 112

You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 30, 2011

In other words, an organization that values innovation will be light on bureaucracy and heavy on curiosity and transparency. Innovation requires us to listen deeply, speak candidly, question constantly, challenge openly, and get a little messy in the process. Failure ~ as a learning tool.

Innovation 58

Innovation Leadership Bureaucracy Creativity 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

Instead of hierarchical bureaucracy comprising a set of linear mechanisms that could be improved one-by-one through implementing proven remedial measures, it has acted more like an ingeniously morphing virus that steadily adapts itself to, and ultimately defeats, intended fixes and returns to its original state, sometimes more virulent than before.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

And if you landed from outer space in 1967, those large firms looked like the planned bureaucracies on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Instead, firm ownership was distributed and were divorced from firm managers who had the incentives and skills of bureaucrats, and so created bureaucracy. Why were those firms so large?

Power 8

Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

And, be sure to plan for enough time for the discussion. With you action plan in hand, it’s now up to you as the team lead to champion the team forward.

Tips 34

Tips Team Bottom-up Teamwork 34

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

David Kenny, the new head of IBM’s Watson, defines that business as “AI (artificial intelligence) as a service,” a central part of the data analytics market that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says is a $2 trillion opportunity. But those that do account for half of the net value created in the global stock market in a given year.

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. .” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working. This cost and service improvement then differentiates the insurers, pharmacies, and other disruptive newcomers in the market. But it will require major change.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Passing the CEO baton to Barra tomorrow , Akerson said that she “brought order to chaos” in GM’s vast product development organization, mostly by flattening its bureaucracy and cutting overlapping layers of executives. She had “an ability with people” and a track record of bringing new models to market faster and at lower cost.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

The news that Cisco is dismantling its unique structure of councils and boards to reduce bureaucracy presents a cautionary tale and an insight into the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration in organizations.

Team 15

Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 15

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. And this despite having working prototypes of devices that could have come to market as the iPhone or iPad – years before Apple invented them.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

If we had listened to the experts," he says, "we would have limited our goals and focused on the states around Minnesota, where we were based. The big companies simply couldn't treat people the way we did, either because the bureaucracy wouldn't allow it, or because they had no concept of how to do it.".

Insurance 15

Insurance Bureaucracy Innovation Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

What are our markets? Without critical self-reflection, organizations build silos, bureaucracies, and cultures that impede rather than enable performance. Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. Organizations must answer critical questions of identity: What sets us apart?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

Former GE boss Jack Welch was a master at using symbolic bets to coach GE to have the culture he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, to be #1 or 2 in every market they were in. They volunteer their time and energy in communities where GE has plants and offices. It was just what I was looking for.”

Company 8

Company Welch Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The group also focused on specific pillars upon which the regime’s power rested —such as the media, bureaucracy, police, and military— to target their efforts. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product. This clarity of purpose led directly to action.

Management 8

Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. Radically reduce people dedicated to the old business.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

In this glowing yet skeptical-in-all-the-right-places article, Jason Fagone introduces readers to the SpeedForm, a shoe made in a bra factory that just might be Under Armour''s best chance at chipping away Nike''s 40% hold on the athletic shoe market. Papers, Please" is a video game about bureaucracy. It Can Be Done!

Price 8

Price Company Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Tony, the chief marketing officer, had suggested taking a drive so that they could talk about the integration of Beacon''s latest acquisition, VillageCar. I know I''m an ops guy and you''re the marketing guru, but I don''t buy it," Henry said. I have no interest in creating an unwieldy bureaucracy. He leaned across the desk.

Case Study 8

Case Study Brand How To Beyer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

Doug observed this when he moved into a Vice President of Marketing position at Nabisco in the $3.5 The goals were spread across twelve manageable quarters, and they were authentic goals, anchored in mutual benefit (not rooted in showboating or chest puffery). billion cookies, crackers, and biscuits division.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Commitment Report Skills 8

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. Education was an important goal for Boomers in Western countries during these years.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share. What Causes Crises. Inevitable spin-offs include government investigations, public scrutiny, and a tarnished image.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Running a bureaucracy. Supply chain management should be implemented. Quality management should be implemented.

Strategic Planning 68

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 68

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In the first two months, she single-handedly organized a large conference – marketing and organizing all the details of the conference and filling it to capacity. What about stretch goals? For most people, though, a stretch goal leads us to become demotivated, take foolish risks, or quit. It was a remarkable feat.

Stress 15

Stress Conference Report Resources 15

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. The goal, of course, isn’t to put 21.4 If bureaucracy is as ubiquitous in these economies as it is in the U.S.,

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. As a result, a new era is emerging.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The research project goals were to understand how customers perceive the salespeople they meet with, explore the circumstances that determine which vendor is selected, and learn how different company departments and vertical industries make buying decisions. 3: Market Leaders Have an Edge.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. Look closely, and you’ll find that most companies have stretched their brands and product portfolios to customers and markets in which they are undifferentiated and profits are weak.

Zero Based Budgeting 14

Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It will add layers of annual reviews and expand the privacy bureaucracies at both the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. That may not have ever been the real goal. Yet the Court of Justice’s rejection of the old Safe Harbor was based entirely on potential U.S. Further legal challenges are all but guaranteed.

Safe Harbor 8

Safe Harbor Bureaucracy Information Directory 8

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

JULY 5, 2011

As such, we needed to "borrow" a village leader's rights to his landline, and then work with the phone bureaucracy in order to get his line installed at our service point. In more rural areas, Question Box was primarily used to check weather and crop market prices. From then on at that location, Question Box became Population Box.

Strategy 15

Strategy Short-term Price Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach. It follows in the footsteps of Vodafone ( M-Pesa mobile payment service in Africa ), Dow Corning (Xiameter online channel), and Hilti (tool fleet management services) as a market leader using a new model to power growth.

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

But Rogier thought it was the key to boosting engagement and performance, and he had hinted that he might use Contect’s 2017 annual all-employee meeting—his chance to announce new goals and celebrate the previous year’s accomplishments—to roll out the change. Now Vera was getting worked up.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. Ravi Venkatesan, the former Chairman of Microsoft India, offers inside advice on how your firm can overcome the unique challenges of the Indian market. The old way to market a business was storytelling. by Thomas H.

Books 8

Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And a study of Kenya’s popular M-PESA mobile money service suggests that digital financial services can increase the participation of women in the workforce and create opportunities for women in the formal market economy. Of course, this story is bigger then any one business goal.

Globalization 8

Globalization Participative Telecommunications Technology 8