Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. Thus, in many organizations, innovators are largely suppressed for the sake of “productivity.”

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2021

Moreover, this is a sign that you’re not doing something right and that your business won’t make it once you hit the market. This also means you’ll have to do proper market research , especially if you’re starting a business that requires feedback. So, start taking care of this issue right now and try not to let bureaucracy defeat you!

Licensing 82

Licensing Bureaucracy Pharmaceuticals Planning 82

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2012

To improve relevancy, I’ve had to familiarize myself with the new economy and the products and services that did not exist when I was CEO of coffee/confectioner, Jacobs Suchard. Okay, so there are roadblocks – government meddling, environmental challenges, cheap foreign production. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 227

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Creativity Energy 227

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2017

Those who opt for an upbeat, proactive spirit are happier, healthier, and far more productive. . They cut through bureaucracy with a strong fervor for outcomes. You are both a doer and marketer. Independent consultants don’t just do the work—they also market the work.

Consultative 225

Consultative Self-aware Bureaucracy Energy 225

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Bets made on well researched unknowns led to the most cutting edge products in history. In companies who are market leaders because ‘they have always done things that way’ innovation can face an uphill battle to drive change. No Guts, No Growth, No Glory Taking risks is an inextricable part of being innovative.

Innovation 120

Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

A flight attendant’s response showed how management just didn’t get it, “We’re smiling in spite of the fact that we’re doing our job with fewer flight attendants, a system that often breaks down, and a product that’s deteriorated.” Brand management is an inside job.

Energy 52

Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Companies, markets, and the categories in which they compete can be exceedingly dissimilar. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy?

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CEO Human Resources Bureaucracy Maturity 213

QAspire

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Elaborate Gantt charts and byzantine procedures plague bureaucracies large and small. On Productivity. “…productivity is not about how efficient you are at work. Instead, your productivity is really about how well you are able to make an impact in what matters most to you.”. On “Project Approach” to Ideas.

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Gantt Chart Bureaucracy Project Long-term 147

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. 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 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

We argued that a business should be seen as a portfolio of “core competencies” as well as a portfolio of products. 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.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

To improve relevancy, I’ve had to familiarize myself with the new economy and the products and services that did not exist when I was CEO of coffee/confectioner, Jacobs Suchard. Okay, so there are roadblocks – government meddling, environmental challenges, cheap foreign production. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 154

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 154

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

Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Many midsized company leaders equate it with big-company bureaucracy. Information gathering and analytics acumen that looks externally at markets, competition, and the company’s reputation, and internally at the organization’s culture, teams, and performance levels. They made great products and brought them to market.

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Leadership CEO Planning Long-term 247

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

” In “Marketing for Scientists” Marc Kucher listed words Jobs used to describe his products between 1998 and 2008: stunning, revolutionary, awesome, beautiful, best, tour de force, cool, remarkable. Is bureaucracy weighing you down? You get the point and Apple’s employees and America did too.

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Chief Executive Officer Bureaucracy Motivation Innovation 185

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. ” I beg to differ.

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Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. They don’t forget a birthday or a chance to surprise a prospect.

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Innovation Budgeting Strategic Planning Tools 150

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 18, 2016

But, when the time comes for the cows to be transported to market, herding can become a challenge. Employees can’t work from home, business casual will lead to low productivity, or the workday is nine to five; the work week forty hours. For months cows leisurely graze, sleep in the shade and drink water from a nearby pond.

Policies 150

Policies Follow-up Banking Bureaucracy 150

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. In addition to reducing bureaucracy, high-performing, high-tech companies provide freedom in dress codes, scheduled hours, and lifestyle choices. Retaining High-Impact Performers . These seven steps can help you: 1.

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe What a Leader Can Learn From 20 Cents Postage Due by Kevin Eikenberry on December 3, 2010 in Collaboration , Innovation , Leadership , Video I received a package in the mail this week. With 20 cents postage due on the envelope.

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USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Companies, markets, and the categories in which they compete can be exceedingly dissimilar. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy?

CEO 122

CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 122

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

To improve relevancy, I’ve had to familiarize myself with the new economy and the products and services that did not exist when I was CEO of coffee/confectioner, Jacobs Suchard. Okay, so there are roadblocks – government meddling, environmental challenges, cheap foreign production. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 92

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Somehow he was able to see the unseen, and marshal Apple’s resources to deliver the innovative products that fulfilled his view of what lied ahead. Companies, markets, and the categories in which they compete can be exceedingly dissimilar. Is a “turnaround” artist right for a profitable, steady bureaucracy?

CEO 100

CEO Bureaucracy Maturity Human Resources 100

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

These challenges meant that they overwhelmingly elected to go to larger companies that can help them with the bureaucracy, rather than the startup where their talents might be better put to use. “We do not believe the U.S. ” Early warning. “The reality is, it is talent that is in shortest supply,” the authors say.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Unlike closed marketing systems, characterized by agencies that wall off their in-house talent (creating a scarce and expensive resource), open marketing systems seek talent from anywhere in the world to solve problems, and then curate the best answers. All of these are taking a piece of the traditional marketing spend.

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Marketing Disintermediation Hotels Brand 8

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. Creativity has its own demands and so flexibility in the way people work, and when, is often a more appropriate and productive choice. Failure ~ as a learning tool.

Innovation 58

Innovation Leadership Bureaucracy Creativity 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Posted by Elinor Stutz on December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment Marketing professionals refer to strategy as your unique selling proposition while sales folk use the term ‘positioning.’ How do you overcome simplicity in favor of bureaucracy? Yet our competitive companies would boast they required no red tape at all.

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Storytelling Strategy Short-term Long-term 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For years now, huge corporations such as British Aerospace Engineering and Raytheon have completely dominated the market and swooped in to poach promising innovators. Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people.

Innovation 131

Innovation Software Industry Politics 131

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. When Home Depot slipped to last among U.S.

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Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

Management 10

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. When the tooth-to-tail ratio gets too low, front-line people find that they have to send every customer request or idea for improvement up through the bureaucracy and wait days or weeks for a response.

Cost 12

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Articulate the larger purpose the enterprise serves, and become known for the idea, not just specific products currently offered. Artisans' cooperatives help market products from diverse artists. He could recycle the 1977 Star Wars movie and ensure its survival in sequels, spinoff products, and theme park rides.

Entrepreneur 16

Entrepreneur Cooper Apparel Bureaucracy 16

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

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%. Although Nokia introduced few radical new products, in the 1990s it was a bold, innovative company in broader business terms — more than most people realise.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

But as business became more global, spreading to emerging and developing markets in pursuit of cheap resources and labor, corporate leaders entered countries with weak institutions, bureaucracy and corruption. Who were they to impose the values of their home market on another country? You cannot have a market without both.

Globalization 13

Globalization Bureaucracy Efficiency Ethics 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Replace counterfeit “strategies” with real market identity. But although all of these things are important, they aren’t a strategy, and they’re insufficient for defining who a company is to its market, relative to its competitive set. ” They associate the word with corporate bureaucracy.

Company 8

Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. billion, Amazon’s stock price rose 2.4% retail sales, or $391 billion of $4.9 Agile innovation teams are small.

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Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8