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

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. Managing people Time management'

Cost 15

Cost Span of Control Management Bureaucracy 15

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

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Does your organization have a data analytics manager yet? A sustainability manager? In the absence of formal structures, managers in the new roles scout for social and environmental initiatives that enhance the organization’s reputation, but they can put forward only a very limited range of sustainability initiatives.

Positioning 15

Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 15

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. They also have a greater impact on organizational outcomes. However, political behavior is also likely to be present, but not explicit, until it is too late.

Politics 15

Politics Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term 15

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 found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Innovation Brand Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Imagine if managements, boards, and investors adopted them: we could restart our economy, energize our business school curricula and create prosperity for our children and grandchildren. Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses. He wants loyal investors who seek to be stockowners, not renters.

Letter 15

Letter P&L Insurance Net Present Value 15

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

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Even when an organization has a robust pipeline of growth ideas and manages to keep many of them alive, it may lack the human capital needed to accelerate growth. And the after-tax cost of debt for many large companies is close to the rate of inflation.

ROE 15

ROE Long-term GDP Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

It worked with a local partner to create India's first financing plan for medical devices. It follows in the footsteps of Vodafone ( M-Pesa mobile payment service in Africa ), Dow Corning (Xiameter online channel), and Hilti (tool fleet management services) as a market leader using a new model to power growth.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

For you entrepreneurs, the challenges of scale-up are first and foremost the responsibility of managements and boards. It is hell to manage.". 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.

Entrepreneur 10

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 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 7, 2014

For fans of management books, this month marks a big anniversary. It is harder, though, to pinpoint exactly what lessons today’s managers might take from what has been called “the best business book you’ll never read.” A central office kept track of finances and the allocation of resources.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Venture Capitalist Price Engineering 9

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

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

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Rushing into the shattered city, he managed to have $80,000 in gold loaded onto a horse cart covered with vegetables before fire consumed the bank building. Bank of America has a lot more to clean up than any other servicer or lender,” says Guy Cecala, publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance, a trade publication.

Banking 105

Banking Mayo Bureaucracy Report 105

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Phil Gilbert , general manager of IBM Design: “In design thinking, you need to listen to the people doing the job, while in continuous delivery you don’t need to talk to users; you just monitor what they do on the web.” But as Intuit grew, informality and entrepreneurship began to morph into procedure and bureaucracy.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Software 8

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. It''s about the pace of change that the company as a whole can manage. There are no titles around an idea.

Bureaucracy 285

Bureaucracy Leadership Ryan CEO 285

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

New, nontraditional entrants are bringing fresh alternatives to the bureaucratic and autocratic management systems of traditional hospitals. 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

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

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. Of course, there are downsides to this approach, and management needs to be aware of them. Size inevitability leads to hierarchy, to rigidities in the system, and bureaucracy.

Microfinance 10

Microfinance Follow-up Bureaucracy Self-aware 10