Remove Bureaucracy Remove Leadership Remove Maturity Remove Technology
article thumbnail

What Robert Greifeld Can Teach You About Getting Your Organization On Track

Leading Blog

Reduce Bureaucracy 3. Overhaul Technology 5. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions. Business leaders should always cultivate an attentive disposition toward outsiders, especially in industries impacted by technology. Get the Right People on Board 2.

article thumbnail

Innovating Around a Bureaucracy

Harvard Business Review

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. Thus, needed process changes within bureaucracies should always be built into such initiatives.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Who's Moving Their Company Beyond Bureaucracy?

Harvard Business Review

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?

article thumbnail

The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Products and services assist the bureaucracy to do its job more efficiently but cannot claim credit for Big Picture success of a client’s entire industry. Maturity is a process. ‘Products for Healthy Living.’

Brand 50
article thumbnail

How Dell, HP, and Apple Rediscovered Their Founders’ Vision

Harvard Business Review

The company has made one of the largest technology acquisitions in history (EMC). Put another way, why is it that so many companies age and mature badly, bureaucratizing and becoming disoriented in the marketplace, while others of similar scale keep or regain their mojo? And what are the indicators of this along the way?

Energy 8