Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

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 is the technology of control. There’s no other way to put it: bureaucracy must die.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

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 is the technology of control. There’s no other way to put it: bureaucracy must die.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 9

CO2

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The more the bureaucracy grows, the harder it is for the organization to keep moving forward fast. New technology that is about to revolutionize your industry is not getting implemented fast enough because of the sign-offs required–while the competition is about to go live and take part of your market share.

Leadership 120

Leadership Bureaucracy Efficiency Leadership Styles 120

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Retaining High-Impact Performers . These seven steps can help you: 1.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

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.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 9

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. They also draw attention to some of the regional inequalities that migration, and indeed technological innovation, can bring.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Several technology companies — including Google and Microsoft — tried this in the early 2000s, but their efforts failed. The technology for giving outside entities access to electronic records kept by hospitals and doctors was underdeveloped. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

Health Care 12

Health Care System Industry Technology 12

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. Galbraith’s answer was that they needed to be so because technology required large amounts of capital to be deployed — think your large auto assembly, oil refineries, and chemical plants.

Power 8

Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Is there access to Information and Communications Technology infrastructure? Bureaucracy. To what extent do governments minimize bureaucracy? To what extent do governments enable technology to develop, through use or through legal frameworks? Government Digital Uptake: To what extent do governments use technology?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Comparison Innovation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 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%. As the failures piled up, so did the stories of mounting bureaucracy, back-stabbing, and top management "living in a different world".

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 15

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% Agile innovation teams are small.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. But it is a cost nonetheless.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. .” Those fears are not entirely unfounded.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Smart headcount growth that optimizes technology is essential. Digital companies are rewriting the rules of how to grow a company by using technology to scale and minimizing headcount growth. In fact, as companies grow profit-wise, they may even end up shedding employees as technology advances. Insight Center.

Company 8

Company Engineering Technology Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working. This cost and service improvement then differentiates the insurers, pharmacies, and other disruptive newcomers in the market.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

David Kenny, the new head of IBM’s Watson, defines that business as “AI (artificial intelligence) as a service,” a central part of the data analytics market that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says is a $2 trillion opportunity. But those that do account for half of the net value created in the global stock market in a given year.

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. In the 1990s, for example, Nokia rocketed to the top of the handset market. Nokia sat on top of one of the biggest growth markets the world had ever seen, and on top of one of the biggest piles of cash in history.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Technology has compressed time, costs, and distance considerably. In a hyper-speed world with multiple divergences, a vertical chain of command with annual rituals creates isolation, sluggishness, and bureaucracy. John’s move pulled a lot more leadership attention to the growth markets in that region.

Agility 8

Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2013

The advertising campaign featured a rugged cowboy on horseback, an uncompromised man struggling not with a demoralizing bureaucracy but with the forces of the natural world. Great marketing and advertising campaigns are exquisitely attuned, not to past behavior, nor to individualized needs and desires, but to the larger cultural zeitgeist.

Advertising 10

Advertising Objective Bureaucracy Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

The news that Cisco is dismantling its unique structure of councils and boards to reduce bureaucracy presents a cautionary tale and an insight into the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration in organizations. Until a charter was created with guidelines about participation, some managers sat on as many as 14 boards and councils.

Team 15

Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The big companies simply couldn't treat people the way we did, either because the bureaucracy wouldn't allow it, or because they had no concept of how to do it.". They were responding to yesterday's market. How we did business was as important as what we sold," MacDonald told me. We were reminiscing about the future.

Insurance 15

Insurance Bureaucracy Innovation Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. This is not guesswork. Make the tough calls on people.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

and China should be playing the same free-market, free-trade global game in accordance with the rules of the WTO and IMF (to which both countries belong). The United States is playing free-market free-trade capitalism while China is playing mercantilist state capitalism. Let's start with the false premise. It's a whack-a-mole game.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Globalization Committee Cooper 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

The company has made one of the largest technology acquisitions in history (EMC). Think of GoPro taking the small camera market from Sony or maybe Netflix, not the networks, creating the first real Internet television business.) As Michael told us, “I resonate strongly with the themes of the founder’s mentality.”

Energy 8

Energy Industry Bureaucracy Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

When Americans reflect on what makes their military the best, it is not just its unrivaled technology, the nearly $600 billion dollars per year we spend on it, its compelling mission, or our network of global allies. At a time of economic, technological, and labor evolutions, organizations have to change to compete for the best talent.

Talent Management 10

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

What are our markets? Without critical self-reflection, organizations build silos, bureaucracies, and cultures that impede rather than enable performance. Product innovation sits at the intersection of R&D, marketing, and business intelligence. Organizations must answer critical questions of identity: What sets us apart?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

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. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

Or will you end up drowning in bureaucracy, pining for the white-knuckled start-up pace you''re used to? Or leaders know the firm should be in a certain market but can''t figure out how to compete there. Or they know that a disruptive technology is getting close enough to the mainstream that it simply can''t be ignored any longer.

Innovation 8

Innovation Uncertainty Bureaucracy Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy.

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

We focused on the generations in eight countries, including the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), some of the most important markets for talent over the next decade, as well as one country from the Middle East. We also examined two European countries, the U.K.

Education 15

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 15

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

The genius of the book is that Eggers extends Silicon Valley’s existing technology and organizational practices no further than to their next logical steps (imagine Google on steroids), and only at the conclusion does he move to the illogical and chilling end to which they may be heading.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

In this glowing yet skeptical-in-all-the-right-places article, Jason Fagone introduces readers to the SpeedForm, a shoe made in a bra factory that just might be Under Armour''s best chance at chipping away Nike''s 40% hold on the athletic shoe market. Papers, Please" is a video game about bureaucracy. It Can Be Done!

Price 8

Price Company Sports Advertising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy. What if this model existed on a larger scale to help staff innovation and growth strategy initiatives for big business?

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

What about doing market research?” process, some market research can still be done during the idea development stage. It is now possible to shift a large part of the market research into the product development phase. First, you would do market research to gain some insight into a potential market or an underserved market.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93