Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Large businesses soon grow into huge bureaucracies where rules, regulations, policies, procedures and “I need permission to make a decision” become the norm. Technology Makes a Poor Substitute for Authentic Leadership — When technology fails, leadership must prevail. Rank Has Its Privileges? They are not leaders, but managers.

Newsletter 162

Newsletter Leadership Learning Curve Bureaucracy 162

The Practical Leader

MAY 12, 2021

One of the biggest success stories to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis is the incredibly quick development of life-saving vaccines. An especially exciting medical breakthrough is the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology now used in Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. It’s a compelling and insightful read.

Development 69

Development Bureaucracy BHAG Leadership 69

Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 26, 2010

Moderate bureaucracy: If innovation becomes difficult because of bureaucratic barriers, employees will stop trying. The fear of making mistakes is deeply ingrained in our psyche says Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies [link]. Innovative ideas tend to require more risk than “more of the same”.

Creativity 183

Creativity Influence Innovation Brainstorming 183

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Often overlooked by great leaders is that very successful organizational level innovation requires a willingness to take risks, cultural openness to external ideas, and a structure to protect non-traditional ideas as they develop and prove value through proofs of concept testing. There are no guarantees innovation will deliver a specific ROI.

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Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 27, 2024

These hubs, or innovation ecosystems, bring together government, universities, and others to boost innovation and commercialize key technologies. The study looks at how these ecosystems can overcome hurdles that have been blocking their development for years, using the example of Israel as a case study.

Information 67

Information Innovation Bureaucracy Cooper 67

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

The genius of the book is that Eggers extends Silicon Valley’s existing technology and organizational practices no further than to their next logical steps (imagine Google on steroids), and only at the conclusion does he move to the illogical and chilling end to which they may be heading.

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Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

You have a great business idea but you are not sure how to develop it. model, startups will have more success if they adopt lean and agile business development principles, where failing fast is the premium strategy and the lean business model reigns supreme. And you start by developing the simplest working version of your idea.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

However, investments take time to fully develop, while additional expenses and unforeseen costs can set back your business greatly. The point is that the bureaucracy and red tape can put an end to your business faster than any other issue you might run into. Planning Ahead.

Licensing 65

Licensing Insurance Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 65

You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

Well, it seems that the 21 st Century, an age of information and technology, is asking for something different from us than was called for in the Industrial age. The world, through technology, is getting smaller and smaller. The pace of change is accelerating at a dizzying rate. We hoped you would. Here’s what you can do.

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Bureaucracy Diversity Globalization Technology 56

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

77% of leaders believe that their organizations suffer from talent-crushing bureaucracy. Question: Why are leaders increasingly resistant to change when facing emerging technologies like AI? That year, DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 discovered over 200m, which have been released free of charge to researchers to help develop new treatments.

How To 81

How To Learning-by-Doing Agility Leadership Styles 81

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. As was discussed in Chapter 8, technology constitutes one tenth of 1% of any organization’s overall Big Picture. The Big Picture.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Consultative 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge , the second leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. We asked some big questions in our quest to bust bureaucracy: What does it mean to build an organization in which everyone is aligned and inspired by a deeply-felt sense of purpose?

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 14

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2015

But for old-school bureaucracies, it’s a scary new world that requires managers to rethink the basic principles that govern established businesses. Or is mobile app development considered peripheral and non-essential? (If If your firm outsources mobile app development to an agency or design firm, there’s your answer).

Strategy 50

Strategy Succession Software Industry 50

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. “Nations that prioritize its development, its attraction, its retention, and its movement across borders will be best positioned to compete.

Globalization 40

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Policies 40

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 15, 2019

As a result, we start to see more opportunities to love better, and we’re much more open to opportunities to develop our ability to love better. I would guess that most people spend 90% of their time distracted either by obsessive use of technology or by their own thinking (or both).

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Long-term Self-aware Short-term Learning-by-Doing 70

HR Digest

APRIL 30, 2019

On small teams, shared consciousness develops naturally – information flows freely, and any lesson learned by one individual becomes a lesson for the group. While the military is arguably the biggest bureaucracy, the Special Operations Forces’ success hinge on their ability to make and execute decisions in real-time.

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Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Since my youth I've been an early adopter of new technology. I know new technology can bring much creativity and value. Investments in technology were so low for so long that we were having technological blackouts with frequency. Nowadays, technology is at the core of our urban planning and management of public policies.

Software 15

Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 15

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. Communications is fundamental to maintaining, but technology is only as good as the people using it. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. Hierarchies have long been under attack because of their supposed inability to adjust quickly to new developments in markets and consumer interests, because of their supposed high cost, and because silos slow the flow of ideas and information. The New Marketing Organization.

Technology 9

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Previously a straggling and struggling conglomerate, it bravely focused 100% on mobile communications, was an early adopter and driver of 2G technology, and quickly became a recognised world leader in both supply chain management and brand-building. The signs are there.

Supply Chain 18

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 18

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Chris spent years working for a supportive, encouraging manager at a major technology company headquartered in Silicon Valley. He had learned how to survive in the bureaucracy: don''t make too many waves, don''t cause problems. Just developing a heightened awareness of the issue can be helpful. In fact, his boss raved about him.

Career 20

Career Absenteeism Humphrey Bureaucracy 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

By 2007, the Internet had radically changed the social and economic landscape in the developed world. However, the Internet was (and still is) making slow progress in the developing world. There are many risks and unknowns that come along with introducing a novel technology-based service to a developing world population.

Strategy 17

Strategy Short-term Price Bureaucracy 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

Several technology companies — including Google and Microsoft — tried this in the early 2000s, but their efforts failed. The technology for giving outside entities access to electronic records kept by hospitals and doctors was underdeveloped. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

Health Care 15

Health Care System Industry Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

But while creating the "new and the nimble" within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to do it effectively. All government start-ups need not be new bureaucracies, rich with hierarchies and overhead costs. Experiment with New Organizational Forms.

Bureaucracy 13

Bureaucracy Health Care Committee Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Fostering entrepreneurship has become a core component of economic development in cities and countries around the world. The predominant metaphor for fostering entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy is the “entrepreneurship ecosystem.” For entrepreneurs and investors, wealth creation may be the benefit.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Partly a byproduct of user-centered approaches and do-it-yourself ingenuity, this emerging wave of intrapreneurship is due to a rising generation of managers who have been empowered by accessible technology and mobilized by social media. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

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." Share it here and join the Beyond Bureaucracy Challenge to share your stories, ideas, and practices about what it takes to make our organizations more inspiring, open and free.

Organization 18

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 18

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

Almost every CEO I’ve talked to, before and after the polls, believes that Modi is a shrewd, pragmatic, and decisive leader, who can kick-start economic growth and development in India by fostering a more business-friendly policy environment. Still, India has a chance to return to the path of rapid economic development.

Bureaucracy 13

Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

To succeed in India, an American company either needs to have robust electronic communication processes at the top management level or must be willing to set its leaders in India free of the bureaucracy at corporate headquarters, so that they can address local issues and opportunities. GM will keep its technology center in Bangalore.

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CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Over time, employees learned that developing and submitting new ideas was not worth the effort. As you might expect, our studies have revealed that encouraging creativity can backfire if employees lack the resources, support, or mechanisms to develop and implement their ideas. Removing the Barriers to Creativity.

Creativity 15

Creativity How To System Motivation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To be sure, as we’ve seen with the adoption of electronic health records (EHR), the health care industry has a track record of dragging its feet when it comes to adopting new technologies — and for failing to maximize efficiency gains from new technologies.

Health Care 14

Health Care Insurance Efficiency Document 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

National circumstances heavily influenced the development of Traditionalists (born from 1928 to 1945) and Boomers (born from 1946 to 1960). Similarly, conditions in East Germany and the Soviet Union did not allow for the development of strong generational solidarity against the existing authority. Highlights from this research.

Education 15

Education Politics White Paper Compliance 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

In her current job as executive vice president of global product development, she is responsible for the lineup of the future and the components that will make cars greener, safer, more user-friendly. An engineer with a diemaker father who worked in a Pontiac plant, Barra is a 33-year company veteran. This situation was untenable.

Engineering 15

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. In the 20th Century, their organizations competed on scale efficiency and relied on hierarchical bureaucracies to run tight ships.

Management 12

Management Bureaucracy Self-aware Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

That's what a team of management innovators did in an earlier M-Prize-winning hack, Late Night Pizza: Extending Hackathons Beyond Technology. David Roth and his teammates were frustrated by the endemic prioritization of short-term priorities at the expense of exploring, developing, and investing in new ideas. Is it Bold?

Management 14

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe. But it is a cost nonetheless.

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Venture Capitalist Innovation Company Supply Chain 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

So you think, “Wow, there were huge numbers of Iraqi men in 2007, 2008, 2009 that had to develop military skills, whether they had to develop them to fight for a particular side or for self-defense. They seem to use bureaucracy to make sure everyone is toeing the party line and to prevent splinter groups from breaking off.

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Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 9