Terry Starbucker
JULY 16, 2011
There must be centralization to deliver decentralization. They have a sphere within which they can make decisions as opposed to a committee-based or team-based approach where there’s a bunch of people who kind of share the decision. Then there is the really “bizarro&# contradiction of centralization/decentralization.
Curious Cat
MARCH 10, 2015
Committee on the Future of the Department formed. Committee on the Future of the Department issues its report and the chief acts on the report. The first step in achieving the vision of a decentralized, citizen-focused police service. Madison’s Transformational Timeline. Year eight. Year twelve.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
It's easy to make the case that collaborative leadership is the wave of the future: Technology makes decentralized decision-making and flat organizations more feasible than ever. Suddenly, decisions are being made by committee. The problem is that an overemphasis on consensus can be viewed as weak.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Things come to a head in a stockholder revolt chronicled in 1994 by HBS professor Robert Pozen in “A Chronology of an Institutional Shareholder Campaign,” in which Brennan loses a power struggle and is thrown off committee that nominates new board members.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 8, 2016
But the decentralization debate was different. Rogier knew Derek’s position—but he had gone to an executive training course on holacracy in Las Vegas and had come back so fired up that he was now pushing for self-managed teams at headquarters and complete decentralization at the country level. Vera’s Perspective.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 24, 2013
This approach doesn''t change the organizational structure but adds mechanisms (such as committees or gates) onto a business case process, to increase the coordination of big digital investments across groups such as engineering, operations, or product owners. These committees at BMW ensure the creation and smooth handoff of information.
Strategy Driven
JANUARY 24, 2011
It appears Toyota’s decentralized structure, which served it well for many years, turned into a liability as the company continued to grow and dominate worldwide markets. operation and then over to Japan where they were reviewed by a special committee – which would then have to communicate back to the U.S. What went wrong?
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