Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 30, 2023

Sounds like he operated by the classic autocrat’s creed; “All those opposed to my plan, respond by saying ‘I resign.'” Spend heavy amounts of time with people on the front serving lines, production lines, or support offices. Keep units small and decentralized. Simplify systems and streamline processes.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. For example, they many fail to detect or assess profound changes in operating landscapes, like Bear Stearns or Blockbuster did. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. resulting in vastly higher levels of productivity, efficiency, and loyalty.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That’s why companies with the best retention, morale, and productivity are led by leaders with heart. Their extensive research shows that there are four skill sets needed for a leader to operate with wise compassion when doing hard things. Feeling disrespected was cited by 57% of those who left as the reason.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. resulting in vastly higher levels of productivity, efficiency, and loyalty.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

The city begins a quality and productivity (QP) improvement program. The first step in achieving the vision of a decentralized, citizen-focused police service. Field operations are decentralized into four areas of the city – central, south, east, north and west. Experimental Police District (EPD) planning team is created.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

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. Finally, all companies’ products will eventually have to become secure-by-design. Harm Reduction.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. resulting in vastly higher levels of productivity, efficiency, and loyalty.” Earlier in her career, she was an operating executive at R. One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. Dana Ardi, Ph.D.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Roadway established these goals for its quality teams: improve organizational productivity, improve employee satisfaction, develop employee capabilities through leadership and training, and improve communication by reducing frustration and conflicts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. While regulatory policy, implementation, and rollout may differ from country to country, decentralization typically encompasses three phases. This seems like the natural end-game for the broader decentralization patterns we’re observing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Customers overwhelmingly prefer products tied to a social cause. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” We see this with Digital India and the telemedicine program.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S.

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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. Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule. Managers could operate their stores with autonomy and tailor products to customer preferences.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

This approach worked relatively well for companies selling standard products in developed markets, but as multinationals transition into truly global organizations relying on emerging markets for growth, it's far from adequate. That requires developing many leaders capable of working anywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

They look at their business as platforms, not just as products and services. One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Geographic business units are responsible for hiring the right people, selling their products, and provisioning new customers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. The constant need to drive towards operational efficiency can be avoided through the creation of new organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Note the far-reaching production changes Jean-Dominique Senard has made at Michelin to empower and engage workers. Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

These chains seem intent on undoing what national brands have worked so hard to achieve in the nearly 100 years that have passed since the first retail chains were established: consistency of product, brand image, and experience. It takes organizational, cultural, and operational changes. There are other operational considerations.

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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

MAY 31, 2011

How does one successfully manage a company with a dozen diverse, decentralized businesses of varying sizes that employ over 100,000 people in 130 countries, especially in an uncertain economic environment? The answer is to make things simple, says Bill Allen, head of Group Human Resources at Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

“We want to be the number one or number two in all the markets in which we operate” is one of those. For example, consider “We want to increase operational efficiency; we will target Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and we will divest business X.” Many so-called strategies are in fact goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. These companies can’t ignore sustainability. ” The Challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2016

For many businesses, this is equivalent to overspending on energy by that amount to achieve current production levels. However, overspending is often the result of decentralized and siloed decision making over the utility budget. You’d think that increasingly sophisticated technology would help reduce this waste.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

This decentralized policymaking, as well as differing priorities among state governments—from rural development to improving infrastructure to attracting investment—have resulted in wide variations in the business landscape across Indian states. Step 2: Measure operating environment.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. But the managerial and operational ability to act on that data-driven information may not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. Reliance MediaWorks. and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

It’s an established fact that the life cycles of companies and many products have been shrinking. In our opinion, culture is contextual, and what would have been appropriate in the 19 th century, when the company was a one-product, one-country organization, is very inappropriate in today’s far more globalized environment. (GE

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it operates similar to a co-working space. To us, this arrangement makes sense — we work in open source software, which is a decentralized product. For those who live in the Bay Area, they can work from the office, if they’d like. Outsiders were dubious.

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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.

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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. Follow me on Twitter @SkippersBiz.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. Every year we learn more about the benefits of remote work, including increased productivity and the ability to attract Millennial workers. The advisory firm we work for is one such company.

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