Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Everyone realizes the common goal and work together for its achievement. In the disintegration phase, Leaders rationalize why goals cannot be achieved. In large bureaucracies a change takes time, while in smaller organizations change comes easier and quicker. Maximum Efficiency. New programs are created in response to new needs.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

More specifically, they employ a diverse combination of capabilities to solve problems that aren’t being addressed by organizations as part of their everyday operations. Her goal is to ensure that women in the 140 countries that L’Oréal serves can find makeup that matches the texture and color of their skin.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. Defining politics. So what is it?

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Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

But when the information age arrived, it brought with it networks of globally distributed individuals suddenly able to connect across boundaries, share information at light-speed, rapidly attract new members, and create seemingly leaderless action at a pace that put traditional bureaucracies to shame.

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Taylorism Taylor Bureaucracy Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

They seem to use bureaucracy to make sure everyone is toeing the party line and to prevent splinter groups from breaking off. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor. But the good thing about the bureaucracy is that there is an inherent constraint in how big you can grow as long as someone is paying attention.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

They seem to use bureaucracy to make sure everyone is toeing the party line and to prevent splinter groups from breaking off. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor. But the good thing about the bureaucracy is that there is an inherent constraint in how big you can grow as long as someone is paying attention.

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Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

Turns out a lot of its management tools focus on some pretty basic stuff, like how to run meetings, have conversations, and set goals. Taking steps like standardizing the way interviews are conducted, for example, may be perceived as excessive bureaucracy by some employees even if they are beneficial to the organization as a whole.

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Management Teamwork Core Competence Bureaucracy 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

But while creating the "new and the nimble" within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to do it effectively. From Vague Goals to Concrete Deliverables. A common trap is to try to operate without confronting tough decisions and trade-offs early.

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Bureaucracy Health Care Committee Information Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

But all too often, the budget-planning monster weighs an organization down with endless inputs and bureaucracy and rules. Strategy is not about streamlining or improving present operations or organizational structures. It's also about imagining a big, bold goal and designing ways to reach that goal.

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Budgeting Process Strategy Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

And last quarter, Amazon began publicizing financial results for Amazon Web Services, which generated an amazing 67% of Amazon’s operating income in the first quarter of this year although it represents less than one-tenth of Amazon’s total revenue.

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

These goals are all important to focus on. Eventually, the former chief operating officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston was brought on (pro bono) to oversee the collection and control systems and work in concert with Bank of America to create a robust system for processing payments. Hack the bureaucracy.

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Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In a recent article, The Guardian newspaper called for the National Health Service to turn to universities as a key resource, arguing that the research ecosystem in the UK is fragmented and more partnerships that align expertise with the goal of improving public health are needed. The recommendation was echoed in a recent U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

While leaders of many care organizations may be fearful that a new centralized staff function would add to corporate overhead and bureaucracy at a time when they are trying to reduce expenses, becoming adept at the delivery of value-based care requires capabilities that provider organizations currently lack.

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Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For all its enemies, bureaucracy is amazingly resilient. That makes bureaucracy the organizational equivalent of kudzu, the invasive, herbicide-resistant vine that has overrun thousands of acres of woodland in the American south. Why is bureaucracy so difficult to eradicate? First, it’s familiar.

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Bureaucracy Proposal Middle Management Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Abraham Maslow taught us that we can’t concern ourselves with higher goals until we have the necessities of life, including security. Most employees are not coin-operated, and more money does not lead to more engagement. Take the statement “I can get my job done efficiently, without excess bureaucracy.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

And yet, many of those ardent reformers are furiously running in place because they do not have the management system to support their goals. The system encourages certain behaviors, such as top-down bureaucracies and seeking whom to blame for problems or unmet goals instead of how to fix or achieve them. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

” The company had layers of bureaucracy and management, siloed functions, and a culture of friction and defensiveness. We can look at the way our own companies operate and make inferences about how our products are perceived. This dynamic operates differently in different kinds of organizations.

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Productivity Products Organization Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. 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. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle?

Company 8

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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.

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Those sessions produced a highly sophisticated system that achieved the end goal: a wonderful end-to-end experience for consumers. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation. How can algorithms be used to create a better or entirely different kind of experience?

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HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

That’s why CEOs of many organizations established executive teams – a group of senior leaders who work together to define goals and ensure everyone keeps them in mind. It isn’t enough to state goals once a year or once a quarter at a company meeting. Good teams can tear apart their successes to find those incremental improvements.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Miscalculations, manmade disasters, natural disasters, shifting resources, changing marketplaces, regulations, bureaucracies. In the 1990s, another international conglomerate purchased Bridgestone-Firestone.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Henry was the senior vice president of operations. The goal should be to use our scale, capabilities, resources — everything we''ve got — to bring VillageCar in and make it more profitable. I have no interest in creating an unwieldy bureaucracy. He laughed; Henry grimaced. We''ve gone over this already," Henry said.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Running a bureaucracy. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Values which benefit other aspects of the company operation: Quality improved on behalf of the overall organization.

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 68

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. The goal, of course, isn’t to put 21.4

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Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. redesign the operating model. These proliferating operations lead to complexity, which contributes to drag as well as costs that rob resources from better and potentially more-profitable ideas.

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Zero Based Budgeting Organization Budgeting How To 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Each Question Box was set to speed dial our operator, a young woman with a mobile phone and Internet connection in her house. Callers pushed the green button, connected to our Operator, and asked in local dialect any question they wanted. We stuck the Question Boxes up on walls in two rural Indian villages.

Strategy 15

Strategy Short-term Price Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). Internet companies have had over a decade to integrate basic data collection and use safeguards into their operations, including limiting the data they collect and adopting international information security standards. Full Text of the Regulations. GDPR Explained (CNET).

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Advertising Cost Business Model Information 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Knowledge work gets done through networks of individuals working together with frequently changing goals and varying degrees of context. To be clear, individual productivity is often a worthy goal. This is pretty straightforward for manual work (e.g., assembly lines), but extremely complex when it comes to knowledge work.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Bureaucracy Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership.

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Management Operations Planning Politics 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.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

CEO Omar Ishrak has announced a goal of radically reducing the cost of a simple pacemaker.). And, of course, it would have to learn how to operate in India, a notoriously complex market. It's easy to bemoan the stifling bureaucracies that characterize some large companies.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

Under the guise of acting like owners, many leaders operate as bureaucrats or, far worse, in some cases as personal-wealth maximizers. Companies with a strong founder’s mentality focus relentlessly on freeing up cash from their operations, but not so that they can hoard it or return it to creditors or shareholders.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Budgeting Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

For example, ask when the person has tackled extra work to help their organization or team meet critical goals. As a leader, it’s your responsibility to use good judgment to take risks, to operate with principled motives, and to hold positive assumptions. So ask questions that determine character. And you get what you give.

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Policies Micromanagement Reference Covey 14

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. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations.

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Bureaucracy Tools Marketing Agility 8