Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Bets made on well researched unknowns led to the most cutting edge products in history. Whether new products are commercial blockbusters or break even lines of business, publicly celebrating new ventures reinforces the idea that the company is not satisfied with stagnation and appreciates growth. To be innovative you must take risks.

Innovation 120

Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

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

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

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Large businesses soon grow into huge bureaucracies where rules, regulations, policies, procedures and “I need permission to make a decision” become the norm. Technology Makes a Poor Substitute for Authentic Leadership — When technology fails, leadership must prevail. Rank Has Its Privileges? They are not leaders, but managers.

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Newsletter Leadership Learning Curve Bureaucracy 162

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. In addition to reducing bureaucracy, high-performing, high-tech companies provide freedom in dress codes, scheduled hours, and lifestyle choices. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. . Relax the culture. .

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

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. In government, we want to see demonstrably better service delivery, increased productivity and efficiency, and improved employee morale.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

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?

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Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 12

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

JUNE 15, 2016

It was a problem regardless of brand, formula, or product — until Atis set her sights on solving it once and for all. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements. These individuals represent a largely untapped opportunity within established businesses.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. Consider how Apple has been able to capitalize on the first I-Pod with additional, similar products that capitalize on its attractive design and user interface features.

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Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

The Practical Leader

JUNE 29, 2011

We like their technology, customizing equipment to our needs, value, and next day onsite service. A previous post, The Three Rings of Perceived Value: An Integrated Customer Focus showed our service/quality model with the Basic Product/Service (notebook computer and onsite service) as the inner ring. That may change.

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Bureaucracy Finance Positioning Productivity 45

Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

25 Ways to Work Smart and Achieve More Some people think that looking busy is the same as being productive. But just because someone puts in the time doesn’t make that person productive. As Peter Drucker, the management guru, said, “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”

How To 100

How To Contingency Plans Delegation Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

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. They followed a sequence that resulted in new products or major updates to products every year or two. Insight Center.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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

APRIL 12, 2017

” It’s a familiar idea: A SWAT innovation team is created, ready to inject new thinking into a burdensome bureaucracy. Godbout was executive director at 18F before departing to become chief technology officer for the EPA. So, we said, we’re going to be using the latest technologies and the latest tools.

Advice 11

Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 11

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

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?

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Bureaucracy Comparison Innovation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

trillion per year; and (3) store-based retailers could profitably transition to a digital world by growing e-commerce sales cautiously enough to avoid diluting earnings and cannibalizing higher-margin store sales, while retreating to the most profitable stores and product categories that would be hardest for Amazon to attack.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

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

MARCH 14, 2016

We have a unique perch from which to observe how well organizations are “tuned” to create a productive and positive work environment for freelancers and other agile talent. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager.

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

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. 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

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

It’s often not much more complicated than studying the patient’s needs, studying the work, and respecting and engaging team members to have a say in how processes, technology, and spaces are designed and utilized. It’s proven that we can do better… but will everybody do so? Mark Graban.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

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

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. They are less affected, but not immune.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Moreover, it’s not clear whether unicorns exploiting other technologies, such as genomics or robotics, will be able to expand as rapidly as Uber, Airbnb, and other smartphone-enabled businesses. As bureaucracy deepens, layer by layer and rule by rule, the sparks of entrepreneurship get snuffed out.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

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. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy. Financial capital is in the driving seat. There are certainly many causes for concern.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies. All are specialty retail, all have complex supply chain restocking requirements of a rapidly changing product line and all, at their core, are businesses built around emotional customer appeal.

Company 11

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 11

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

MAY 23, 2014

It’s widely believed that Modi, just as he did in Gujarat, will try to tame India’s sclerotic, corrupt, and self-serving bureaucracy by eliminating archaic laws and regulations, and by using technology to eliminate their discretionary powers. Given his nationalist zeal, Modi will do his best to capitalize on that opportunity.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. An engineer with a diemaker father who worked in a Pontiac plant, Barra is a 33-year company veteran. The old GM was the most macho and woman-unfriendly of them all.

Engineering 11

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. We didn’t want to overlay them with the Ford bureaucracy. The first two have been long-standing threats, relatively speaking, and are embodied in one company, Tesla.

Christensen 8

Christensen Hedge Bureaucracy Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

” Mostly looking at individual workers, he figured out that standardization and optimization of work processes could lead to astonishing improvement in productivity. In the face of the resulting massive improvements in productivity and service, dissenters who pointed out high profile failures and dysfunctional systems had little impact.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

It is also the case that companies like Intel and GE have, in some cases, moved production and R&D to China because China has indicated in a number of ways that if companies want to sell in China, they had better also be producing and doing R&D in China. Because China's bureaucracy has great discretionary authority, it can intimidate U.S.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Globalization Committee Cooper 12

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 platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. This is not guesswork.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 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. The teams that create breakthrough products are large. By the time a product is a clear-cut success, vital team members have moved on.

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 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. What if, like Volkswagen, you feel that your product could thrive in an entirely different kind of market? He smoked a cigarette "designed for men that women like."

Advertising 10

Advertising Objective Bureaucracy Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

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. What are our markets? Who is our customer?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8