Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Online shopping has completely changed the face of retail and customers are increasingly buying products online and having them shipped directly to them. As a smaller company, you’re not necessarily going to be able to match that speed and efficiency, but you do need to make sure that you’re getting products out to people in a timely manner.

Efficiency 58

Efficiency Operations Outsourcing Decentralization 58

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It’s into this domain that Israeli startup SixAI Robotics is attempting to make its mark by providing a ‘robotic recruitment agency’ to help firms access the kind of technologies they need to become more productive and keep pace with their larger rivals.

TCO 83

TCO Decentralization CAPEX Industry 83

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 91

Agility How To Decentralization Morale 91

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

This is largely because it manufactures products that reflect the local environment (to deal with spicy Indian food, it sells the antacid Digene), and are widely used there (to manage aches and pains, most Indians are prescribed Abbott’s Brufen when they want ibuprofen). In 2014, its 14,000 employees in India generated $1.09

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Decentralization Automotive Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

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. If we are to successfully adapt to the escalating complexity of our environment, we need to invest more time and energy in exploring institutional innovation.

Drucker 8

Drucker Disruptive Innovation Uncertainty Globalization 8

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

Welch 8

Welch Six Sigma Agility Operations 8