The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 24, 2022

For instance, a more decentralized approach can work when organizations have few resources but plenty of opportunities, whereas hierarchies work better when the opposite is true and opportunities are scarce and resources plentiful. “Our results don’t mean we must dismiss the bossless company,” the researchers suggest.

Organization 131

Organization Span of Control Decentralization Human Resources 131

Strategy Driven

MARCH 8, 2021

Binance Labs is responsible for coordinating and financing projects based on blockchain technology, and Binance Research is responsible for providing high-quality analysis. The company also has its own decentralized wallet and even official Telegram channels that keep the entire community in touch.

Armstrong 131

Armstrong Decentralization Finance Licensing 131

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MAY 10, 2021

This requires a much more decentralized set of management structures and. In the prior mass markets era, companies had homogeneous markets, so they needed to plan and coordinate only at the executive level, with the rest of the company’s managers focusing on their respective functional specialties. This is only the beginning of the thought.

Mass Marketing 64

Mass Marketing Decentralization Management Diversity 64

Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Blockchain technology – the decentralized tech that was famously introduced to supports bitcoin – is now be leveraged to remedy the many disparities that exist in today’s online content landscape. By 2024, the global blockchain market is projected to exceed $60 billion. Blockchain-Powered Content. It levels the playing field.

Content 65

Content Decentralization Advertising Incubator 65

Terry Starbucker

MAY 17, 2015

Control your opportunity cost by putting on 3-D Glasses – Leaders who fully understand opportunity cost can see, in their mind’s eye, the “layers” of revenues and costs that exist on their to-do lists, project status reports, and business plans. Study up, and lead well!

Decentralization 150

Decentralization Leadership Core Competence Long-term 150

Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 20, 2010

Maybe its a group walk for the breast cancer, helping out on a Habitat for Humanity project or offering to put a fresh coat of paint on wall at a local Boys and Girls Club. This concept helps maximizing employee potential by encouraging trust through transparency, decentralizing decision-making and inverting the organizational hierarchy.

Decentralization 218

Decentralization McCarthy Godin Conference 218

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The systems are sophisticated and project environments bigger and more distributed than ever before. After all, change is the only constant thing in Agile project management and development. You certainly cannot let unexpected and unforeseen events derail your projects. Even a small misstep can lead to immense problems.

Agility 34

Agility Planning Project Decentralization 34

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. I call this one Beta ,” explains corporate anthropologist Dana Ardi.

Venture Capitalist 78

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 78

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The average amount of capital raised by a Blockchain project through an ICO in 2017 was $13 million; through the third quarter of 2018 it was $25 million. Some observers have pointed out that blockchain projects may have an inherent incentive and strategic reason to be more aggressive in raising capital earlier in the experimentation process.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity? If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place?

Execution 305

Execution Objective Learning-by-Doing System 305

Eric Jacobson

JULY 22, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. I call this one Beta ,” explains corporate anthropologist Dana Ardi.

Venture Capitalist 62

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Idea Generation Books 62

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 21, 2014

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. They are made up of shifting, project or process-based teams instead of rigid functional silos.” One, more traditional and common, is centralized and hierarchical. I call it Alpha. I call this one Beta ,” explains corporate anthropologist Dana Ardi.

Venture Capitalist 56

Venture Capitalist Decentralization Books Idea Generation 56

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2017

At the same time, we’re also seeing the decentralization of power production. The United Arab Emirates is investing $163 billion in renewable energy projects , with a target of meeting nearly half of its power needs with renewables by 2050. For example, in Germany, more than 1.5 India plans to install 100 GW by 2022, up from 4.9

Energy 10

Energy Decentralization Industry Power 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

When they suggest initiatives, the projects only get a green light if they fit the formal organizational agenda. Sustainability programs are decentralized, so social and environmental initiatives are not viewed as top-down directives but are embedded in the routine activities of other functions.

Positioning 11

Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Developed alongside business magnate Nandan Nilekani, “ the biggest social project on the planet ” relies on community-operated Common Service Centers (CSCs) and local entrepreneurs to deliver programs and share in the profits. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

In 2002, the year Alibaba.com first became profitable, founder Jack Ma gathered a handful of employees in his office and told them there was a secret project that they had the opportunity to join. Of course, this only works for skunkworks projects. Jack Ma’s First Day Speech in Alibaba Apartment from Taluswood Films on Vimeo.

Porter 8

Porter Decentralization Film Project 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

In this archetype, accountability for innovation projects stays at business unit level. The experts have a job in the business unit but are formally trained and certified on innovation methods and tools and can coach or run innovation projects in the organization. Intuit is a case in point.

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But Intel implemented it by providing ample autonomy and decentralized budgets to its various groups and teams, for employees to experiment with initiatives that would bring this strategic intent to life and fruition. In contrast, top executives should resist the temptation to decide what projects live and die within their firms.

Strategy 15

Strategy Bottom-up Balanced Scorecard Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2011

That practice is supposedly a central policy of decentralized decision-making, in other words, that the company has decided to leave the substance of pay and promotion decisions to individual managers. Plaintiffs claim that those managers make discriminatory decisions and the company does nothing to rein in the exercise of their discretion.

Class 13

Class Decentralization Comparison Policies 13

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 20, 2019

A number of projects have attempted to use AI to improve matters, by using algorithms to monitor live footage for behaviors that look suspicious so that humans can then investigate. Alas, the project didn’t take off and the company has folded, but that hasn’t stopped others trying to follow in their footstep.

Decentralization 66

Decentralization Agility Document System 66

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. ICCI now has five full-time employees with expertise in analytics and project management and three part-time graduate students.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

QAspire

MARCH 18, 2014

A collaborative team is the one where power is decentralized and everyone owns the final outcome. Collaboration Great Quotes Leadership Leading People Leading Projects collaboration Collaborative Leadership HR' The only way to lead others is to lead self – explore the self constantly and keep learning. They look at “power” differently.

Leadership Styles 176

Leadership Styles Decentralization Competitive Advantage Objective 176

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. Who will be updated on decisions and actions during the project/process? On the one hand, they desperately seek greater agility; on the other, they genuinely want to include all the right stakeholders in their processes.

RACI 8

RACI Agility Brand Management Decentralization 8

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. Belvedere Vodka, a brand with sales in 120 countries, has pursued many large-scale projects to reduce its CO2 footprint.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Payback Period Brand Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Technology will allow us to push projects forward with emails, conference calls, and video conferences. In a "flat" world, we no longer think about being centralized or decentralized. Friday is a "weekend" here and Sunday is a "weekday." Our teams back in Stamford still have goals and deadlines to meet.

Hotels 8

Hotels Globalization Travel Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2012

Nestle has a fairly decentralized management culture. Del Solar reversed the typical gender balance on the team asked to take on the project. We wanted to shift it to focus on building trust with our consumers, and clearly differentiating the benefits of the brand.".

Decentralization 13

Decentralization Brand Workshop Advertising 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

How do you avoid wasting millions, if not billions, on projects destined for failure? If evidence come back that invalidates the basic hypotheses of the project, teams can cut their losses before they're too great. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market?

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Unless someone somewhere has the heart for leadership – and the drive to build the infrastructure – your LDP will just become another project. Without an executive presence at some level, an LDP can have the feel (and support) of an overlooked side project. “Belief in the cause” can’t be outsourced.

Leadership Development 120

Leadership Development Development Leadership Attrition 120

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Humans have been able to organize large numbers of people into a common mission and execute amazing things, from conquering armies to astonishing constructions project like the pyramids. organizational structure (such decentralizing and aligning technology to business areas more effectively), and governance.

Agility 65

Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

They reflect a decentralized, de-institutionalized commercial structure that’s now clearly part of the US economy (think of food trucks or Uber). “If you are a CEO who has some large, profitable project you are shelving because of short-term worries,” he offered, “call Berkshire. Let us unburden you.”

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

These technologies can be screened for their inherent disruptive potential — that is, their ability to transform existing markets or create new ones by radically simplifying, decentralizing, and lowering the cost of existing solutions. The ARPA-E program is a great first step in this direction.

Disruptive Innovation 10

Disruptive Innovation Competitive Advantage Business Model Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

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. Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex.

Company 8

Company CEO Finance System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

But these decentralized households can easily travel to the major cities for unique shopping and restaurant options. In this new age of fiscal austerity, public finance arrangements for major urban infrastructure projects will become an important topic for debate. Effect 2: dispersed population.

Real Estate 9

Real Estate Cost-Benefit Analysis Decentralization Training 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. The staggering capital requirements of todays projects — think billion dollar semiconductor factories — dwarf those of yesteryear. You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

With every project, they are spreading the word through their networks, and the connection to #GivingTuesday becomes more valuable. It is decentralized and therefore adaptable to existing or new efforts. They say “a rising tide lifts all boats” and that is what #GivingTuesday aims to be.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

You might say that a radically decentralized, p2p financial system spontaneously arose. The staggering capital requirements of today's projects — think billion dollar semiconductor factories — dwarf those of yesteryear. And that's exactly the role that pubs began to play.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Decentralization 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When is a project finished? The project may be “done.” Most companies manage projects in terms of outputs, not outcomes. This problem of uncertainty, combined with the nature of software, means that managing our projects in terms of outputs is simply not an effective strategy in the digital world.

Project 8

Project Management Uncertainty Software 8