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.

Innovation 120

Innovation Real Estate Open-book Bureaucracy 120

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Obviously, it’s pretty easy to assail government bureaucracy, but how about industry?

Bureaucracy 232

Bureaucracy Compliance Learning-by-Doing Engineering 232

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 66

Licensing Insurance Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 66

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. To retain top talent in the future, executives will need to clearly identify, develop, involve, and recognize key people. Provide opportunities for development and involvement. . Provide recognition. . Relax the culture.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

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

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

The program team was highly dysfunctional and everyone had his or her own ideas about the source of the problems – the technical challenges, the difficult customer, the bureaucracy of the large company, procurement issues. This insight snuck up on me one day when I was facilitating a teambuilding session. The feeling in the room was terrible.

Bond 243

Bond Attrition Absenteeism Bureaucracy 243

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

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.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

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

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

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.

Bureaucracy 56

Bureaucracy Diversity Globalization Technology 56

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

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 8

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 8

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.

Silverman 51

Silverman Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Objective 51

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).

Long-term 67

Long-term Self-aware Short-term Bureaucracy 67

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 PR 8

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.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

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 12

Health Care System Industry Technology 12

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

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

As part of the analysis behind our Digital Evolution Index 2017 (we wrote about the broader results of that report here ), developed by The Fletcher School and Mastercard, we analyzed how the UK performs relative to its major European peers. Is there access to Information and Communications Technology infrastructure? Bureaucracy.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Comparison Innovation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. An inability to easily determine the value of ideas.

Engineering 8

Engineering Project Benchmarking Hammer 8

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 10

Health Care Insurance Efficiency Document 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months. These teams value creative working environments more than hierarchical bureaucracies, working prototypes over excessive documentation, customer collaboration over fixed specifications, and responding to change over adherence to plans.

Retail 8

Retail Planning Agility Innovation 8

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 11

Creativity How To System Motivation 11

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.

CEO 10

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 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.

Constraint 8

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

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.

Constraint 8

Constraint Bureaucracy Document Operations 8

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 Information Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The other one of us cofounded 10x Management , a well-respected talent agency representing top-tier freelance programmers, designers, and other technology professionals. We suggest a number of possible approaches for organization leaders to consider: Assign a roving chief technology officer or project manager. Here’s the problem.

CTO 8

CTO Agility Management Chief Technology Officer 8

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 10

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

As digital technologies continue to transform the economy, many leaders are struggling to set a digital strategy, shift organizational structures, and remove the barriers that are keeping them from maximizing the potential impact of new digital technologies.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

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 16

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 16

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 19

Career Absenteeism Humphrey Bureaucracy 19

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

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 9

Bureaucracy Policies Globalization Politics 9