The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

Managers often hire consultants to help them solve major organizational problems. Many ideas are sifted through, and the most relevant one presented to management along with the consultant’s recommended action plan. Managers are hearing them for the first time. Keep units small and decentralized.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It’s perhaps understandable, therefore, that managers would strive to achieve a degree of cultural fit when they recruit. Indeed, a few years ago research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) found that a poor cultural fit can cost somewhere between 50-60% of that employee’s annual salary.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Failed deliveries cost companies billions of dollars each year, while impacting customer satisfaction and damaging retailers’ reputations. These low-cost solutions can reduce failed delivery attempts by up to 10%, including in dense urban areas and developing countries.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

As well as speed, you also need to consider the cost of your shipping operation. Improve Inventory Management. If you’re not managing your inventory properly , it’s going to take longer than it needs to organize and pack all of the products ready for shipping. Decentralize Shipping.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Instead he spent the better part of his 96 years unraveling the secrets of management. He did this to such a degree that he became recognized as the “Father of Modern Management.” at First In his first book devoted entirely to management Drucker wrote: “Leadership is of upmost importance. Drucker Avoided Leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

We’ve also been told that silos can stifle innovation and should be avoided at all costs. But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? We’ve always been told that teams need to work in close collaboration and take advantage of organic opportunistic interactions to drive creation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

health care, one thing hasn’t changed: Patients, clinicians, health plans, payers, and policy makers are still striving to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. Redesigning their care is a major way we can improve lives and sustainably reduce overall health care costs. They are our sickest and most injured.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. For example, the finance department approves what to buy, facilities maintains equipment, HR tells employees how to conserve energy, and marketing manages the company’s corporate sustainability reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Each of these departments has its own cost budget for which it is held accountable. A hospital organized into these different unconnected units finds it difficult to adopt innovations that reduce costs across a patient’s complete cycle of care. Hospitals are typically organized by clinical departments (e.g., Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Times were changing, with new competition emerging from low-cost labor markets in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Asia. This is due largely to the fact that the German economy went through an unprecedented process of decentralization of wage bargaining during the 1990s. Controversial Labor Reforms. The Private-Sector Response.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. Countries that manage to transition effectively to low-carbon generation technologies will be home to competitive energy solutions and manufacturing firms that are more resilient to energy shocks and weather disruptions. Each brings its own challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Insight Center. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

What are the costs and benefits of self-disruption at that uncertain stage? We studied the sector for three years and came up with some very interesting findings about the “adjustment costs” that companies incur when they disrupt themselves. These are rarely studied questions. A rare natural experiment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

A detailed plan to decentralize. Three years later the CEO calls the consultant back in, worried that decision making has become too decentralized. What is the cost to my effectiveness, and what is the balancing quality I must cultivate?” The consultant’s solution? The solution? A detailed plan to centralize.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Cyberattacks cost companies an estimated half a trillion dollars in damages every year. Every company’s cybersecurity program will have unique attributes, but there are several fundamentals to this decentralized architecture that can help companies shift the balance of power away from the attackers. Harm Reduction.

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Lead from Within

MAY 28, 2020

Times of crisis show us the value of decentralized leadership, and the ability to create a network of talented experts with access to good data is fast becoming an essential leadership skill. The One Aspect Of Crisis Management That No One Talks About. We will need leaders who know how to engage the expertise of others.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Airbus has a complex process for managing the thousands of suppliers who contribute to the manufacturing of the A380. So what is a leader to do when faced with a highly complex organization and a nagging concern that the creeping costs of complexity are starting to outweigh the benefits? But this advice has a couple of problems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The consultant has a solution: decentralize. We’re too decentralized. Our shared human instinct is to avoid pain at any cost, but growth requires pushing past our current comfort zone. Learning to embrace our own complexity is what makes it possible to manage more complexity. Empower more people to make decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

In 2016, socially responsible investing made up more than one out of every four invested dollars under professional management. ” When we talk with corporate executives around the country, they almost always ask the same question: Can managers and CEOs really accomplish their business goals while also advancing society’s goals?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Treasury tasked with combating money laundering issued guidance on Bitcoin, defining it as a “decentralized” class of “virtual currency” that, though not equivalent to legal tender, “acts as a substitute for real money”. Regulatory clarity will bring costs with it. Clarity is coming, and with it, likely, greater involvement from banks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Third and most importantly, unlike communicable diseases where the incidence rates and overall costs are on the decline, these conditions are posing a heavier burden on health care systems every year. CKD is a condition that affects 1 in 10 Americans over 20 and costs the US health care system almost $100 Billion a year.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I recently discussed the issue of managing through uncertainty with retired U.S. Petraeus has managed uncertainty of global scope and with the highest stakes. Our conversation left me with three recommendations for managing uncertainty that we all can use: Learn faster than your opponent. So how should leaders adapt?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2013

But the data, gathered in our new study " Stop Starving Scale " and compared against benchmarks from APQC (American Productivity & Quality Center), hint at a little-known story: most global NGOs today struggle to master the complexities of managing efficient, integrated operations in large part due to restrictions placed on them by funders.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. Including more people, alas, typically increases coordination costs and response times. Mapping these networks creates visibility and clarity for stakeholders and top management alike.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

As the effects began to play out in the ''70s and ''80s, Drucker wrote extensively about the need for management practices to change. The widespread erosion of ROA confirms that our management practices and institutions are struggling to respond to the relentless pressure. The Mongrel Discipline of Management , by David K.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If Gerber's failed adult food business had been born outside of its existing organization, would the managers have distributed a product that looked like Gerber baby food? But one thing is certain: faced at the onset with internal pressure to drive cost out of production, it was far less likely that Gerber could truly innovate.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Companies in industrial businesses had to drive costs down and execution up and create foolproof processes to ensure quality. Accordingly, Jack Welch’s drive to Six Sigma involved an intense focus on controlling costs, quality, and execution on both the infrastructure and behavioral sides (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Hence, when (re-)designing the organization structure, they tend to decentralize decision-making, so that decision rights are as close as possible to the people who deal with customers, competitors, front-line employees, and other stakeholders. Decentralization allows immediacy in time and place, hence responsiveness. ” 3.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

But how much do these hazards actually cost global companies in emerging markets? The average cost per company over that time has been $1.38 billion, with the cost per incident estimated at $325 million. The average cost per company over that time has been $1.38 Those are the costs. Which are the most costly?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2013

Either there''s a bottom-up communications problem where the messages aren''t connecting with their targets, or there''s a top-down problem where management isn''t clear on what its message is. Determine what these clients value most (speed, cost, etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure. ” Metric obsession. In the sense that results count, and their quantification is desirable, it seems irrefutable.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In most organizations, managers are the rivets that hold everything together. Problem is, hierarchy adds costs and reduces responsiveness. What's needed now are ways of integrating complex activities with little or no management overhead. Managers are often the enforcers. And then there's control. Can it be automated?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. The DNA of “peer trust” is built on opposite characteristics – micro, bottom-up, decentralized, flowing and personal. The theme: Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age. But what it illustrates is a paradigm shift.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

By some estimates, China has supported its domestic solar industry with $34 billion in loans; that cash, an ability to rapidly ape western technologies , and the competitive advantages of low-cost labor and limited regulatory restraints allowed Chinese companies to sweep away Western competitor after Western competitor in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. They demand new, high-tech solutions that deliver ultra-low costs and "good enough" quality. Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally.

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