Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

But is there are a way to still drive innovation with an increasingly decentralized lifeforce? We’ve always been told that teams need to work in close collaboration and take advantage of organic opportunistic interactions to drive creation. We’ve also been told that silos can stifle innovation and should be avoided at all costs.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2014

Decentralization reality vs. having one ABC Company strategy, are in conflict. We look forward to answering your strategic planning and tactical business execution questions. Learn why people come to work at ABC Company, why they stay, and why they leave. Identify key positions and key people to target for succession planning.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

With the primary mission of staring down the Soviet Union during the Cold War, America invested in high tech weaponry and developed extensive tactics, techniques, and procedures for engaging mechanized armed forces on the open fields of Europe. A hierarchical chain of command and extensive battle plans allowed the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Leading organizations and teams to respond using the best tactical approach will determine if the organization can really deploy the needed projected force with the ability to move freely by means of sufficient sustainability for prolonged operations. They must be willing to decentralize their decision?making Open the Gateway.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

In China look at the unique organization of entrepreneurial cells Zhang Ruimin has created at Haier, and in France look at Vinci Group’s success, under Xavier Huillard, with a radically decentralized model designed to foster entrepreneurial creativity in its three thousand constituent companies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2015

During his military career, Petraeus stressed the importance of the “strategic corporal,” the young leader whose tactical actions could have strategic consequences, advancing or undermining an overall campaign. In uncertainty, more decisions need to be made by those closest to new information.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

But excessive complexity can undermine thoughtful execution as much as a failure to specify tactics. In the first, it centers on compliance to a pre-determined plan, in the latter on decentralized initiative taking and experimentation. Action plans and Gantt charts can span many pages in pursuit of precision and concreteness.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Decentralizing the procurement model and process is another key step, from establishing and enforcing quality standards across a distributed workforce to adjusting accounting and logistics systems to work with smaller suppliers. Inside the store, chalkboards and window painting replace permanent, standard-issue signs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Broadly, EDM seemed to reverse the trend of a decentralized company and office. What’s most evident in her findings is that large-scale strategic changes not only changed the nature of work; they also changed how people felt about their work, and how they interacted with colleagues and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In contrast, in 2010 in Borneo Churchill Mining lost the right to use land it had purchased and spent $40 million surveying when Indonesia decentralized its government and a local authority changed the rules. Given the conflicts that have roiled the country in recent years, his company deemed both the political and regulatory risks too great.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

It appears Toyota’s decentralized structure, which served it well for many years, turned into a liability as the company continued to grow and dominate worldwide markets. ’ Execution Gap Maker #6: Toyota During 2010 Toyota recalled millions of cars due to a variety of defects. What went wrong? For example, some of Toyota’s former U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This is the impulse that leads to detailed requirements and specification documents, but, as we’ve come to understand, this tactic rarely works in software. Some managers try to overcome the problems caused by uncertainty by planning in increasingly greater detail.

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