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. Does your company rely on barriers such as proprietary technology, arbitrary business rules, regulations or litigation to stifle competition? Is anybody steering the ship?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The media circus jumped on all facets of the conflicts, as well as lawsuits filed. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. Computer activity constitutes less than 1% of the technology picture.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Organizationally, one thing that is striking about Islamic State, looking at its lineage — from al Qaeda in Iraq to Islamic State in Iraq to ISIL to ISIS to Islamic State today — there is a fair amount of continuity in leadership and management. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Organizationally, one thing that is striking about Islamic State, looking at its lineage — from al Qaeda in Iraq to Islamic State in Iraq to ISIL to ISIS to Islamic State today — there is a fair amount of continuity in leadership and management. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

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Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Their words overstate, get into the media and are accepted by audiences as fact. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. When one media insists upon having exclusive name rights to a special event, that’s the kiss of death. ‘Products for Healthy Living.’

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