Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

What does it take to cause something big about a community to change — something that no one individually has much power over, even something as big as a prevailing mindset? Increasingly there is an insistence that these powerful forces must leverage human creativity, not marginalize it. Tim Ellis/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Whether you are an emerging leader with a small team or an experienced leader responsible for directing the daily operations of a multinational organization, these seven CEO success tips will allow you to glean insight into your marathon by looking at the roadmap to help you win the race without fail. Exit the Lands of the Terracotta.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. The context demanded operational excellence. In the first part of this century, innovation became the priority. Let’s take the 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S. This structure granted individual employees significant decision-making power.

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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. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

This becomes more likely as the organization takes on strategic risk — through innovation, mergers and acquisitions, or because its environment is becoming more volatile. Their operating environment changes in a way they don’t recognize, or they take on a project that they believe is within their capability but isn’t.

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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. states with deregulated power markets) and technologies (e.g., As a technology advisor, the CUO would understand the benefits of different energy innovations and be able to make smart purchasing decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

Power laws with spiky heads and very long tails progressively crowd out the familiar bell curves that made life seem predictable. Drucker didn''t quite frame it in these terms, but perhaps we need to expand our focus on innovation beyond the narrow frame of technology and product innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Each of these GM divisions focused on its own day-to-day operations with each division general manager responsible for the division’s profit and loss.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Fluid and innovative business strategies centered on adaptability, foresight, and competition are replacing traditional management methods. With the shift towards a more democratic work culture, management is evolving towards decentralization– emphasizing proactive and watchful guidance.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

.” On one hand, “the machine is seen as the master of men unless firm government control or a workers’ revolt intervenes” (it was the ’50s, after all); on the other, those who believed “that the innovations are simply a phase of technological progress which begin with the invention of the wheel.”

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

One would assume that if the engines of innovation are working as the hype suggests, Schumpeter’s famous creative destruction would be happening at a rate seldom seen before. These datasets cover all of the businesses operating in the economy. The question is whether this concentration of economic power is good or bad.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. On April 8, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, Texas , disrupting residents and overwhelming 911 operators throughout the day.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Since positioning is vital in new markets, today’s boards must include Chief Marketing Officers, not just directors with operations or finance backgrounds. Only a small minority thought low-cost operations would be an advantage in three years’ time. Rebrand from the inside out. China’s Next Great Transition.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

Because digitization has passed power to the consumer, pressing companies to pull together their old decentralized profit and loss fiefdoms to produce experiences consumers find compelling. Design "integration mechanisms" and operate them with rigor. Many more organizational structure changes are likely to come.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

He takes aim at every company where the ratio of managers to frontline employees is rising, where decision cycles are getting longer, where cliques of managers are accumulating more and more power, where rules are proliferating, and where "legal has to sign off on everything." News and World Report). Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

Adaptability is the power to detect and respond to change in the world, no matter how surprising or inconvenient it may be. While there's much chatter in the management world about the need to be adaptable, only a few creative companies and innovative managers have probed the natural world for its adaptability secrets.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

He, like others , has discovered the power of teaching online; in his case, he reached 160,000 students in a single online course on artificial intelligence. Impressive facilities were a way of showing off the power of your wealthy alumni. But they will need an extremely clear purpose, and shared, decentralized power throughout.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Marketing is not a part-time endeavor, and if you don’t have a qualified C-level marketing executive leading the charge, don’t just trust things to the most vocal staff member. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

The energy that ran the city came from a centralized macrogrid-based power system. The new decentralized system will be cleaner, greener, and more resilient, since microgrids can share power in the event of a district outage. The choice for Pittsburgh’s leaders was investing in the future or the past. You work in cities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2017

For example, a surgeon in the hospital operating room could view an X-ray you had taken at an urgent care center. In our white paper, “A Case Study for Blockchain in Healthcare,” we proposed a novel, decentralized record management system to handle EHRs using blockchain technology, which we called MedRec.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Our collective ability to equally access and innovate on internet platforms, from search and social networks, to content and commerce sites, is fundamental to continued growth. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. Third, it’s exclusionary, denying billions of people access to basic financial tools. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

Our collective ability to equally access and innovate on internet platforms, from search and social networks, to content and commerce sites, is fundamental to continued growth. With internet innovation comes congestion. Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery. It is not a given.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The benchmark, therefore, is a tool for policy makers, technology innovators, and others to evaluate progress and prioritize the gaps, thus enabling a dialogue among the key actors and a plan for action. Methodology. Each component is made up of different clusters of indicators.

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