The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Management theorists have long argued the merits of different kinds of organizational structure, with the latest fashion being for flat structures that advocates argue allow organizations to make faster decisions and respond to the rapid pace of change seen in the world today. Systems intelligence.

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Organization System Fashion Learning Organization 113

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. They explain that the very nature of organizations has come under pressure. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change.

Chief Technology Officer 65

Chief Technology Officer Competitive Advantage Agility Operations 65

LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2010

Systems thinking techniques may be used to study any kind of system — natural, scientific, engineered, human, or conceptual. The major proponent of systems thinking in organizations is Peter Senge, who views systems thinking as a vital component of a learning organization. Leadership evidence-based management senge'

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System Senge Engineering Learning Organization 79

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. So, how did GE do it?

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Deep change, when it happens, is belated and convulsive, and typically requires an overhaul of the leadership team. And finally, large organizations are emotionally insipid. Imagine, if you will, a car engine so woefully inefficient that only 13% of the gas it consumes actually combusts.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8