Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet.

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Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 8

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis is what I call a corporate hacker: an industrious intrapreneur working at the edges of organizations to solve persistent problems that customers care about. In order to support corporate hackers like Atis and Windham and foster internal innovation, companies need to identify these individuals and understand what makes them tick.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To most people, bureaucracy is a bad word, synonymous with ‘red tape’ and wasted time. Yet, despite the negative connotations, most companies still operate bureaucratically – insisting employees work inside of increasingly complex structures with processes and procedures designed to standardize or control everything.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2011

Individuals within a company are held up as heroes who championed key ideas, fought bureaucracies, and instituted significant changes. In a recent New Yorker article , Malcolm Gladwell describes the development of the desktop operating system that is now so familiar in Apple and Windows computers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

Every year, Russell Reynolds Associates surveys more than 2,000 C-level executives on the impact, structure, barriers, and enablers of digital technologies across 15 industries. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces. They are less affected, but not immune.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In research for our book, The Founder’s Mentality , my coauthor and I found that 85% of the time, the barriers to sustainable growth are not external, but internal, and include bureaucracy, ability to motivate and retain talent, and slowness to decide, act or redeploy. Finally, boards should be highly attuned to speed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. In many industries, drones are poised to generate what Paul Nunes and I call Big Bang Disruptions, with the FAA itself estimating $100 billion in new business growth. In Washington, business as usual.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

“Sidra is introducing innovative education and training programs for medical students, trainees, and physicians in various specialties, which has never been done in this region before,” said Dr. Muhammad Waqar Azeem, Chair of Psychiatry at Sidra and Professor of Psychiatry at WCM-Q. Stakeholders Can Help Address Industry Gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Thanks to disruptive innovations , much of our world today looks radically different than it did just a decade or two ago. In industry after industry, disruptions deliver more for less and change everything from how we communicate with one another to how we work and shop. Remember flying in the old days?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

The massive productive capacity that the industrial revolution had brought about was spinning out of control. So much so that we see them as “the way things work” and forget that bureaucracies were once innovations too. Before Weber’s bureaucracies became predominant, most enterprises were fairly organic.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. Which is why the auto industry’s reaction to Tesla’s announcement on March 31 of its Model 3 is so strange. We didn’t want to overlay them with the Ford bureaucracy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. . “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

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. One might even say that an increasing advantage of the U.S.

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Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 9

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Anyone with more than a passing interest in Brexit will probably have gathered by now that things aren’t going particularly smoothly, with scarcely a day going by without an industry bemoaning the impact it’s having on their business.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

This view differs substantially from the relentless focus on efficiency that has characterized management thinking for most of the last three decades, but it is absolutely essential if companies are going to spur innovation and reignite profitable growth. Let me explain.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. Our industry does not respect tradition—it only respects innovation.” Some innovation leaders make Box 2 symbolic bets that send powerful ripples throughout their organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Specifically, the study found that S&P 500 companies where the founder is still CEO are more innovative, generate 31% more patents, create patents that are more valuable, and are more likely to make bold investments to renew and adapt the business model — demonstrating a willingness to take risk to invent the future. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

We have shifted from a competitive landscape in which companies are more exclusively focused on external forces affecting their industries and sectors, to one that has become significantly more customer-centric. The Future of Operations. But as Intuit grew, informality and entrepreneurship began to morph into procedure and bureaucracy.

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers. This is the bestselling bible of the coaching industry, which popularised the most influential model of coaching: the GROW model. According to Sinek, great companies and leaders start with the “Why” layer. By Daniel H. By John Whitmore. By David Ulrich.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. From health care to handbags, no industry is immune. Are you aware of any startup companies in your industry that focus primarily on reaching customers on the smartphone?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

The two were executives of Beacon Car Rental, one of the industry''s most established and respected brands. Henry was the senior vice president of operations. I''ve said it before, and I''ll say it again: The best path forward is to keep VillageCar separate — the operations, the branding, everything.".

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Trees with thicker bases and deeper roots will sprout greener (be profitable), shed less often (fewer corporate flaws) and live longer (dominate its industry). Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Doing Things as We Always Have.

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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. Here’s the arithmetic. trillion, of which the non-U.S.

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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.

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Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). While European data may still be legally stored outside of the EU, for example, it’s much easier to comply with GDPR if data remains within the borders — a boon to a fledgling European cloud services industry. The End of Industry Self-Regulation. GDPR Explained (CNET).

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Advertising Cost Business Model Information 9

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." This is how opportunities to be nimble and innovative are squandered, he says, and how companies become irrelevant. News and World Report). Managing yourself'

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Charisma Hamel Bureaucracy Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. Some focus their best people on finding ways to squeeze out more profitability from existing operations, rather than creating new businesses. But a lot can get lost in the averages.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2016

The economy we’re operating in today may have been built to serve corporations, but not many corporations are doing well in the digital environment. Even the apparent winners are actually operating on borrowed time and, perhaps more to the point, borrowed money. The corporate program has reached its limits.

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Technology Short-term Long-term Creativity 8

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Their competitive edge eroded because the people at the top, who considered themselves the corporate brain, failed to adapt or innovate. Bureaucracy and stagnation set in. Innovation and entrepreneurship made a comeback, albeit in measured bites. Lean towards industries on strong growth curves. Does it inspire?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship. Core sectors. Indeed, while direct revenue from oil and gas fell to below 50% of GDP in 2017 (from 60.1%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2016

One of the great innovations in business, which has held sway since 1976, is the idea that professional managers should have an owner’s mindset—that is, they should treat their company’s money as if it were their own. They loathe bureaucracy that traps resources and slows decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Across industries, that number has climbed to 55%. From innovative interview tactics to involving your team in the decisions, using smarter hiring practices can result in hiring honest, accountable team members who create and sustain a culture in which people can count on one another. As Stephen M. And you get what you give.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

It’s much easier to claim a kind of insurgent stance when you are in fact a brand-new industry and you’re taking on groups like Microsoft. That first group, the New Left, believed in bureaucracy, believed in hierarchy, believed in organizations. We would no longer need bureaucracy or hierarchy at all.

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Information Technology Bureaucracy Technology Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

But certain types of decisions — particularly those related to strategy, innovation and marketing — will likely continue to require a human being who can take a holistic view and make a qualitative judgment based on a personal consideration of the context and facts. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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