Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

If the team wants empowerment, you are off to the races. Myth 4: Your picture of empowerment matches your team’s. ” Myth 5: During a crisis, it’s appropriate to revert to traditional top-down command and control. The highest performing teams in the military perform in highly decentralized, and empowered ways.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Covey Bottom-up Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. “For the military,” Petraeus observed, “learning faster than the enemy meant deploying lessons learned teams and ensuring commanders are focused on identifying the need to make changes to our big ideas, campaign plans, organizational structures, equipment, and operational bases.”

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Decentralization Venture Capitalist After Action Review 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. Help teams form, adjust, and get and share needed information.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

I mean "bestow fortune upon", because the super-rich have actually, while most people have gotten poorer, gotten richer during this great crisis) — headed off to hurriedly, nervously confer with their skinny-jeaned, sunglass-wearing, spiky-haired marketing droids. Who smoothly said something like: "Duuudes.

Marketing 15

Marketing Loyalty Decentralization Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. Like many luxury brands, Krug was struggling after the 2008 financial crisis. These companies can’t ignore sustainability.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. It may be investing in a product it doesn’t understand, which happened at Lehman Brothers during the global financial crisis. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. And when Derek had lost his job during the financial crisis, Rogier had invited him to join Contect.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Department of Veterans Affairs was in crisis. McDonald and his team’s approach was heavily influenced by John Kotter’s eight steps for effective organizational change. Assemble the right team, pairing leaders from inside and outside the organization. In 2014, the U.S.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Crisis Kotter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

At the heart of the Denver-based company’s crisis was the ever-present problem faced by companies that depend on multiple suppliers to deliver parts and ingredients: a lack of transparency and accountability across complex supply chains. A team from precision parts manufacturer Moog Inc. and Europe.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Globalization Technology System 14

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. Toyota’s structure slowed down decision making and the company’s ability to effectively respond to the recall crisis. What went wrong?

Execution 67

Execution Company 360-Degree Feedback Cooper 67

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

Call me crazy, go ahead and sic the dream team of Dick Cheney, Ted Nugent, and Oscar the Grouch on me, but I believe that we, each and every one of us, is capable of more than incrementally, cautiously, timidly, option-3-in-slide-14-in-the-powerpoint-deck not so bad. Occupy Wall Street's idea of radically open, decentralized decision-making.

System 14

System Decentralization Class GDP 14

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Good consultants build consensus and unify management focus, they do not splinter opinion.

Blog 303

Blog Marketing Succession Brand 303

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2018

Less than three months since it was declared, and after only about 50 cases, this outbreak’s efficient containment is a remarkable achievement that stands in stark contrast to the West African epidemic that spiraled into a two-year global crisis with over 28,000 cases. Capitalizing on expertise from West Africa.

Globalization 8

Globalization Decentralization Efficiency Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Responding effectively to such threats will require a paradigm shift towards approaches that are faster and more agile and decentralized than what exists now. Similarly, laboratory testing capacity was overrun during the Zika crisis when, even in Florida, many pregnant women could not get tested.

Engineering 8

Engineering Decentralization Agility Technology 8