Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Decentralize Shipping. However, if you’re doing well and you’re looking at expanding the business and reinvesting some of those profits, you should consider decentralizing your shipping operation. Consider Outsourcing. If you’re struggling, you should consider outsourcing to a professional courier instead.

Efficiency 57

Efficiency Operations Outsourcing Decentralization 57

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

While costs and expertise are both elements that robotics as a service can help to address by making investments a matter of operational expenses rather than capital expenses, and the maintenance of the technology outsourced to the provider, there is still a strategic divide in many smaller businesses.

TCO 73

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 73

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.

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Its goal is to seamlessly meld centralized vision and planning with empowered decentralized execution – where everyone is encouraged to exercise disciplined initiative, improvise, innovate, and take smart risks in accomplishing a shared goal.

Agility 89

Agility How To Decentralization Morale 89

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

“In the future, manufacturing will be far more decentralized. But decentralization poses a challenge to the concept of economies of scale,” said Banmali Agrawala, President for GE South Asia.]The The Pune factory helps solve this challenge. The takeaway.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Decentralization Automotive Globalization 8

Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2015

“Belief in the cause” can’t be outsourced. Still others may revolve around an decentralized model (such as a mentoring program). Unless someone somewhere has the heart for leadership – and the drive to build the infrastructure – your LDP will just become another project.

Leadership Development 120

Leadership Development Development Leadership Attrition 120

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

The need to decentralize organizations around employees — viewing them as assets capable of expanding growth rather than as fixed costs to be eliminated — and to move away from standardized and tightly-specified process flows.

Drucker 9

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 9