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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” It restructured its operations in the Netherlands by reorganizing 3,500 employees into agile squads. Now, strategic planning has fallen out of favor.

Agility

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As Henry Mintzberg noted in The Structuring of Organizations in 1979, “The words centralization and decentralization have been bandied about for as long as anyone has cared to write about organizations.” Think, for example, of legal, tax and technology experts, or costly test equipment. It is an age-old question.

Decentralization

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations

Leadership Digital

Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

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