Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By building and nurturing deep, hard-to-replicate skills, an organization could fatten margins and fuel growth. 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.

Newsletter 162

Newsletter Leadership Learning Curve Bureaucracy 162

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

SPHR: Every organization has its share of leaders, technical geniuses or future leaders who lack social skills and self-awareness. Guest post from Cheryl A. Bond, Ed.D., They are perceived as bullies, jerks, prima donnas, and worse. This insight snuck up on me one day when I was facilitating a teambuilding session.

Bond 243

Bond Attrition Absenteeism Bureaucracy 243

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. has the high-skill talent it needs, nor does it have the capacity to train enough people with those skills,” they write.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Well, it seems that the 21 st Century, an age of information and technology, is asking for something different from us than was called for in the Industrial age. The world, through technology, is getting smaller and smaller. The pace of change is accelerating at a dizzying rate. They are business leaders. They are thought leaders.

Bureaucracy 56

Bureaucracy Diversity Globalization Technology 56

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. The fear of making mistakes is deeply ingrained in our psyche says Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies [link]. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

Creativity 183

Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Is there access to Information and Communications Technology infrastructure? Are consumers able to engage digitally, having financial capacity, and literary skills, regardless of their gender or socioeconomic status? Bureaucracy. To what extent do governments minimize bureaucracy? Access Availability. Electronic Payment.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Comparison Innovation Technology 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

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. Deming described.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For instance, one of the things you saw with Islamic State in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was that most of the foreigners that are coming in to fight for them had very modest levels of education, at least as reported by the group itself, and very few useful skills. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

Constraint 8

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

For instance, one of the things you saw with Islamic State in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was that most of the foreigners that are coming in to fight for them had very modest levels of education, at least as reported by the group itself, and very few useful skills. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor.

Constraint 8

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Though agile talent crosses skill sets and sectors, we find that it’s a staffing model that’s particularly popular in technical fields right now.). The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals.

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 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. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for growth in a connected world.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 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

JUNE 21, 2017

They’re also multidisciplinary (with all the digital and physical skills to complete the task), self-governing, and geared for rapid pivots rather than predictable straightaways. Three out of four consumers say that they want more technology in stores and are more likely to visit stores that use technology effectively.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 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. To date, few companies have mastered this skill. One might even say that an increasing advantage of the U.S.

Company 10

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2015

The response to Ebola has largely relied on public health strategies established over a century ago and technology that has been around for decades. Indeed, fresh thinking and new technologies could potentially address many challenges. The possible innovations are not limited to technologies alone.

Transportation 8

Transportation Innovation Sample Technology 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. Observing this problem, I’ve begun wondering: What if there was a talent exchange model that wasn’t people and skill centric, but rather project and role centric?

Innovation 8

Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Michael Power of the London School of Economics describes the resulting explosion of bureaucracy as “the risk management of everything.” If process management means cumbersome bureaucracy devised by distant experts, disaster awaits. Insight Center.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Without critical self-reflection, organizations build silos, bureaucracies, and cultures that impede rather than enable performance. Repeatable core processes, technology and information sharing platforms, and cross-functional teams are all design options that help create seamless linkages. What are our markets? Who is our customer?

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Bureaucracy McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

One: In the long term, soft skills such as mentoring, inspiring, and “selling” (of concepts and goals) would be much more effective than combat drills. Another: Afghan soldiers needed to learn how to be confident in their skills — and that couldn''t happen with tons of advisers looking over their shoulders. Crisis management'

Armstrong 8

Armstrong Bond Entrepreneur Crisis Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

In India, loosened business regulations and restrictions on foreign investment and imports, along with reductions in bureaucracy spurred a boom in economic activity, including a major expansion of the telecommunications industry and space program and the birth of the software and information technology sector.

Education 14

Education Compliance White Paper Politics 14

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. We provided new career counseling as well as professional skill certification for our tradesmen, among other efforts.

Talent Management 9

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising Training 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

While leaders of many care organizations may be fearful that a new centralized staff function would add to corporate overhead and bureaucracy at a time when they are trying to reduce expenses, becoming adept at the delivery of value-based care requires capabilities that provider organizations currently lack.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

Dealing with a recalcitrant bureaucracy can be even more frustrating than dealing with noisy data. Finally, technical skills. Even good data scientists may move on to the next problem. Great data scientists stick with it. Great data scientists also persist in making themselves heard. And he'd be caught in the middle.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Bureaucracy Banking Examples 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." Size inevitability leads to hierarchy, to rigidities in the system, and bureaucracy.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 8

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

I would guess that most people spend 90% of their time distracted either by obsessive use of technology or by their own thinking (or both). Some general examples include frequently asking about and seeking out ways that we as leaders can help team members to be happier both at work and at home.

Long-term 65

Long-term Self-aware Short-term Bureaucracy 65

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 26, 2021

The analysis reveals that the entry of high-skill immigrants usually results in wage gains for native workers, especially those at the lower end of the skills spectrum. There is also a positive effect, albeit a smaller one, for high skilled natives. However, the gains are larger for low than high skilled natives.

Policies 98

Policies Bureaucracy Skills Survey 98

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. I’m talking about a self-contained structure of multiple skills and responsibilities organized within clear lines of authority, one that allows the organization to do a lot of marketing tasks on its own. So now that 2015 is almost here, has that come to pass?

Technology 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

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. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. In 1999, the U.S. Bad Work, Poor Planning.

Crisis 59

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Reduce Bureaucracy 3. Overhaul Technology 5. Change the culture, and inevitably, people with skill sets more apropos to the next context suddenly stand out. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions. As he relates in Market Mover , the story had five parts: 1.

Organization 258

Organization Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Technology 258

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Today’s most competitive marketplace isn’t technology but talent. Their function has been turned upside down and inside out as a result of digital technology, empowered employees, and connected customers. It used to be that top talent was exceptional at a particular skill or function. Who: Look for dual superpowers.

Marketing 8

Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

My analysis: You achieve your own future, with the help of skilled advisors. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Many managers have poor people skills, as well as poor verbal-written communications skills. Self-promotional brochures.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is also a "sweat the small stuff" day, once a quarter, for getting on top of the creeping bureaucracy and niggling problems that accumulate over time. We can try to breed tolerance for failure through our skills as leaders of others, but we also need to find ways of institutionalizing this approach. Loosely defined roles.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data.

Books 8

Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

These facilities help to fulfil the ultimate ambition of the project to create good jobs for the citizens of Qatar by equipping them with the skills they need to thrive in the future of work. Collectively there are over 3,000 students from over 60 nations on campus, undertaking 55 programs.

Resources 90

Resources Innovation GDP Education 90