Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

What do you do if you're a leader in a large, successful organization with an entrenched bureaucracy, and you see the need for innovation? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), however, was successful in transforming its bureaucracy. Thus, needed process changes within bureaucracies should always be built into such initiatives.

Bureaucracy 11

Bureaucracy Innovation Supply Chain Long-term 11

The Practical Leader

JUNE 29, 2011

I just got off the phone from a painful hour of experiencing Dell’s inward focused bureaucracy as Gary, our IT support guy, and I purchased a notebook computer for Heather. We like their technology, customizing equipment to our needs, value, and next day onsite service. That may change.

Bureaucracy 45

Bureaucracy Positioning Productivity Products 45

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

We recently asked members of the HBR community to gauge the extent of “bureaucratic sclerosis” within their organization using our Bureaucracy Mass Index (BMI) tool. Here are our initial takeaways: The blight of bureaucracy seems inescapable. Bureaucracy is growing not shrinking. Bureaucracy is a time trap.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Survey Politics Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. When the tooth-to-tail ratio gets too low, front-line people find that they have to send every customer request or idea for improvement up through the bureaucracy and wait days or weeks for a response.

Cost 15

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

She found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters. Windham built an entire ad-hoc team at Stanley Black and Decker — product planners, executives, and engineers. Atis created a rich ecosystem around her idea.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Streiff’s drive to speed up decision-making, overcome bureaucracy, and deliver rapid execution, exposed historic and deep divisions between executives at the consortium. I call this the “the rocks” because rocks can symbolize a stabilizing foundation that keeps an organization steady in times of crisis. The High Ground.

Politics 15

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Many politicians and commentators mention two critical factors in accomplishing this: increasing innovative capacity and reducing bureaucracy. Second, bureaucracy, laws, and rules exert particular influence in Greece because they help make life more structured and less uncertain. But Greece cannot stop there.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Hofstede Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

finance, mineral processing, geology). This will temporarily exempt managers from the organizational bureaucracy and give them the freedom to experiment and innovate.

Positioning 15

Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 15

Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

There’s no bureaucracy around an idea. In fact, bureaucracy around an idea is the death of an organization. Ken Rees, CEO of Think Finance) School Never Ends : “It’s about keeping them marketable. (Ryan Smith, CEO of Qualtrics) Rules of the Road : “Ideas can come from anywhere. There are no titles around an idea.

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Bureaucracy Leadership Ryan CEO 285

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

From its inception, the company consciously recruiting scientists who rebelled against big pharma bureaucracy and were open to new ways of working. ” Meanwhile, the company recruited non-scientist talent from finance, consulting, tech, academia, and political campaigns and inserted them into drug-development roles.

Innovation 13

Innovation Company Incentives Industry 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Buffett prefers to accept the visible costs of "a few bad decisions" than incur "the invisible costs of stifling bureaucracies." Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses. He annually reports on his own mistakes.

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Letter P&L Insurance Net Present Value 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices. It could mimic pieces of Medtronic's approach, such as the diagnostic camps and a financing plan. It's easy to bemoan the stifling bureaucracies that characterize some large companies.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Workers at these companies have the time they need to devote to creative work, free from excessive process and bureaucracy. Today, the average cost of equity capital sits at close to half that: just 8% for the roughly 1600 companies comprising the Value Line Index.

ROE 15

ROE Long-term GDP Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

So Puerto Rican entrepreneurs hire consultants to badger government procurement to pay up, and in parallel they jack up their prices to finance the long receivables cycle. A great idea, and the Simples Nacional taxation system has indeed turbocharged formalization of Brazil''s informal economy.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2013

Although they retain a pro-poor focus, they generate the profits necessary for BRAC to be 70% self-financed in Bangladesh, where BRAC is based. Size inevitability leads to hierarchy, to rigidities in the system, and bureaucracy. These programs were later spun off into stand-alone businesses.

Microfinance 10

Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 10

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

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

” It might be hard for people in HR to hear, but only 20% of those who responded said that their HR function was enabling them to transform, ranking them even lower than finance — an area not exactly known for its agility. The most disrupted industries typically suffer from a perfect storm of two forces.

Industry 8

Industry B2C Agility Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

The “organization men,” as sociologist and writer William Whyte called the troop of managers who populated these bureaucracies, expected lifetime employment in a single firm. A central office kept track of finances and the allocation of resources. Strategy” led “structure,” as historian Alfred D.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Among the initial findings : more effective programs emphasize communication skills, networking, and organizational structure over developing finance and accounting skills. One of the reasons current entrepreneurship programming is so feeble is that government bureaucracies lack extensive private sector experience.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Policies Entrepreneur NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

To lower the cost of premiums, Aetna and CVS, UnitedHealth and Optum, and undoubtedly others are creating a marriage of the financing and delivery of care. Their intent appears to be to create the financial incentive to get upstream of the major cost driver in health care: hospitalization.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Tip 5: Study the financing food chain starting from the end, not the beginning. It goes without saying that finance is an essential element in entrepreneurial innovation, but don’t start with the angel investors or VCs. But bankers are paying keen attention to those ventures who break away into rapid growth.

Innovation 8

Innovation Planning Tourism Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The fashion and finance verticals had the highest propensity to select the best-known, top-of-the-line product, while manufacturing and health care had the lowest. #4: 5: It’s Possible to Cut Through Bureaucracy. Not surprisingly, the answer to this question differed by industry.

Price 8

Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They have, instead, everything to do with bureaucracy and interest group politics. The FAA’s continued delays, in short, have little if anything to do with assuring the safety of U.S. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” My peers and I will be able to bid on projects more quickly, get them done faster, and book more revenue if we aren’t hindered by needless bureaucracy.” But we’re a global company. Our projects aren’t isolated. You saw what happened with Park 007.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

From its founding 31 years ago, Intuit has been an entrepreneurial company, creating personal finance and tax preparation products such as Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks. But as Intuit grew, informality and entrepreneurship began to morph into procedure and bureaucracy. Intuit: Reviving a Culture Built Around Customers.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Inventors and programmers have found themselves swallowed up in vast bureaucracies, working on projects that they feel morally uncomfortable on and with less than savory people. Financing for any startup is difficult enough to secure. Recently though, the defense needs of the United States have begun to shift.

Innovation 124

Innovation Software Politics Industry 124

Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2020

In Humanocracy , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Humanocracy : Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini. That world?and and those rules?are For bulk orders call 1-626-441-2024.

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Books Hamel Leadership Press Release 425

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2013

These individuals are crucial to securing local financial support, building credibility, and greasing the wheels in negotiations with businesses and bureaucracies. How Banks Should Finance the Social Sector. Follow the Scaling Social Impact insight center on Twitter @ScalingSocial and register to stay informed and give us feedback.

Franchising 9

Franchising Uncertainty NGO Operations 9