Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Adding new items without subtracting old ones is how closets get cluttered, bureaucracies expand, workloads grow out of control, national budgets go into deficit, and people get fat. A technology company tacked on acquisitions without integration, which made acquired companies happy. Too often that discipline is missing.

Career 15

Career Company Bureaucracy Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Barra began her career at the old GM as a young student engineer. American manufacturing companies were falling behind because of hidebound, privilege-laden bureaucracies that squashed new ideas, failed to listen to voices from below, behaved arrogantly toward customers, and generally stifled innovation. This is a new GM.

Engineering 14

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

billion global IT services firm, HCL Technologies, puts it: "The CEO should be the Chief Question Asker, not the final provider of answers." That was certainly true for Jane Harper, who spent a nearly 30-year career at IBM asking the kinds of questions most people don't want to touch. As Vineet Nayar, CEO of the $3.5

Organization 17

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 17

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. Products and services assist the bureaucracy to do its job more efficiently but cannot claim credit for Big Picture success of a client’s entire industry. Greatness is earned over an entire career. Rolex Watches.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

When Americans reflect on what makes their military the best, it is not just its unrivaled technology, the nearly $600 billion dollars per year we spend on it, its compelling mission, or our network of global allies. We provided new career counseling as well as professional skill certification for our tradesmen, among other efforts.

Talent Management 14

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising System 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

Or will you end up drowning in bureaucracy, pining for the white-knuckled start-up pace you''re used to? Or they know that a disruptive technology is getting close enough to the mainstream that it simply can''t be ignored any longer. Career planning Innovation' Should you take the job?

Innovation 9

Innovation Uncertainty Bureaucracy Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You don’t have well-defined career paths. They seem to use bureaucracy to make sure everyone is toeing the party line and to prevent splinter groups from breaking off. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor. Writing things down is an incredibly powerful technology for managing complicated stuff.

Constraint 9

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

You don’t have well-defined career paths. They seem to use bureaucracy to make sure everyone is toeing the party line and to prevent splinter groups from breaking off. Bureaucracy is just endemic to the human endeavor. Writing things down is an incredibly powerful technology for managing complicated stuff.

Constraint 9

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Today’s most competitive marketplace isn’t technology but talent. Their function has been turned upside down and inside out as a result of digital technology, empowered employees, and connected customers. What is important to them in a job, career, team and employer? Why Technology Won’t End the Marketing Hierarchy.

Marketing 9

Marketing Strategy Brand Metrics 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is also a "sweat the small stuff" day, once a quarter, for getting on top of the creeping bureaucracy and niggling problems that accumulate over time. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. Loosely defined roles.

Company 9

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data.

Books 8

Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 5, 2012

It is perfectly understandable that early in her career, Mary did not understand the business realities, especially coming from a different set of realities. In fact, many a graduate advisor hates the institution for all the bureaucracy. Personal identity does not become intertwined with the institution.

Technology 38

Technology Bureaucracy Pharmaceuticals Loyalty 38

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

These challenges meant that they overwhelmingly elected to go to larger companies that can help them with the bureaucracy, rather than the startup where their talents might be better put to use. They also draw attention to some of the regional inequalities that migration, and indeed technological innovation, can bring.

Globalization 40

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 40

Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Reduce Bureaucracy 3. Overhaul Technology 5. To address the technology gap at Nasdaq, Greifeld went outside to buy winners—smart acquisitions. Business leaders should always cultivate an attentive disposition toward outsiders, especially in industries impacted by technology. Get the Right People on Board 2.

Organization 279

Organization Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Technology 279

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The workforce is comprised of career professionals who are deep experts in their craft. They often came to the Intelligence Community early in their careers and stayed. Reorienting priorities in a large government bureaucracy is hard enough. Its successes are largely unknown; its failures are legendary.

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. Train Workers In STEM Fields , with a number of policy options to improve the number of people studying a science, technology, engineering or maths discipline.

Resources 90

Resources Innovation GDP Education 90