Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. There’s no other way to put it: bureaucracy must die. He was right.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Bureaucracy is the technology of control. There’s no other way to put it: bureaucracy must die. He was right.

Bureaucracy 10

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 10

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The study suggests that refugees benefit when they reside in ethnic communities as these communities help the newcomers find work and navigate local bureaucracy. As one looks at the refugee crisis globally, it’s clear that it’s not going away any time soon and that we need research-based policies to navigate through it,” they say. “Our

Policies 93

Policies Analysis Bureaucracy Short-term 93

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

The folks at Red Bull are the ultimate entrepreneurs; although you may be caught in the bureaucracy of an old economy organization, you cannot escape the fact that great ideas create change. But look at the opportunities – online marketing, social media, niche products and services, specialization, the list goes on. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 154

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 154

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders can no longer afford to let the vagaries of the job market determine who leaves and who stays. In addition to reducing bureaucracy, high-performing, high-tech companies provide freedom in dress codes, scheduled hours, and lifestyle choices. Retaining High-Impact Performers . These seven steps can help you: 1. Life is good.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Coaching Tip

APRIL 29, 2011

Size doesn’t have to mean bureaucracy, but it takes fresh organizational thinking. Effective organization design creates connections among the many competing objectives of a large company – balancing global and local authority, setting up good, creative conflict. Talented people thrive on that kind of energy.

Development 112

Development Bureaucracy Globalization Middle Management 112

LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

The folks at Red Bull are the ultimate entrepreneurs; although you may be caught in the bureaucracy of an old economy organization, you cannot escape the fact that great ideas create change. But look at the opportunities – online marketing, social media, niche products and services, specialization, the list goes on. Mine was marketing.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Bureaucracy Brand Creativity 92

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Business has become one of the primary players in structuring the global economy and, by extension, global governance. As global leaders they have new, not always welcome, responsibilities, and one of these is recognizing that their actions are forging global norms. You cannot have a market without both.

Globalization 13

Globalization Bureaucracy Efficiency Ethics 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Unlike closed marketing systems, characterized by agencies that wall off their in-house talent (creating a scarce and expensive resource), open marketing systems seek talent from anywhere in the world to solve problems, and then curate the best answers. All of these are taking a piece of the traditional marketing spend.

Marketing 9

Marketing Disintermediation Hotels Brand 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. ” Identify “moon markets” and walk away.

Management 12

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

David Kenny, the new head of IBM’s Watson, defines that business as “AI (artificial intelligence) as a service,” a central part of the data analytics market that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty says is a $2 trillion opportunity. But those that do account for half of the net value created in the global stock market in a given year.

Company 13

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

In 1994, the dominant global provider of mobile handsets was Motorola: its shares were trading at an all-time high and it was seen as an outstanding innovator and even described by a senior consultant at A. By 2000, Motorola's global market share had collapsed from 45% to 15%, while Nokia's had grown to a market-leading 31%.

Supply Chain 16

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 16

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

And if you landed from outer space in 1967, those large firms looked like the planned bureaucracies on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Instead, firm ownership was distributed and were divorced from firm managers who had the incentives and skills of bureaucrats, and so created bureaucracy. Why were those firms so large?

Power 8

Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The explosive growth of ride sharing is a big reason why Hertz reported dismal quarterly results in November 2016, leading to a 23% drop in its market value. As of November 2016, the market value of the world’s 179 unicorns was estimated to be $646 billion. In 2015 global M&A volume surpassed $5 trillion — a record.

Innovation 8

Innovation Bureaucracy IPO Bottom-up 8

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

What’s more, businesses wanting to operate in both the UK and the EU will need to undergo the same bureaucracy twice, which will add an estimated £1 billion to their cost of doing business. It’s inevitably a tall order to expect the UK to replicate bodies whose costs were previously spread across 28 different nations.

Report 141

Report Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term 141

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In March 2008, Lula convened his political marketeer João Santana and Dilma to present his overall plan of making Dilma his successor. Financial markets, historically sensitive and nervous during elections, watched with unusual calm the battles between Dilma and Serra.

Politics 14

Politics Bureaucracy Globalization Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

They abhor complexity, bureaucracy, and anything that gets in the way of the clean execution of strategy. In the 1990s, for example, Nokia rocketed to the top of the handset market. Nokia sat on top of one of the biggest growth markets the world had ever seen, and on top of one of the biggest piles of cash in history.

Company 8

Company Survey Bureaucracy Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

In early 2016, the country began a process of reviewing multiple economic sectors, including energy, labor markets, pensions, and health. In addition, it has to contend with vast, inherited industries, and education- and labour-market structures that will take many years to reform.

Politics 9

Politics Human Capital Price Long-term 9

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 these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. Finally, certain problems are almost custom-made for global giants.

Innovation 8

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Eight years on, the world is tentatively emerging from a financial crisis that almost broke the global economy. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.

Drucker 8

Drucker Long-term Short-term Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Bureaucracy. To what extent do governments minimize bureaucracy? of global cross-border data flows (three-quarters are between the UK and EU countries). Do people have the financial stability/capacity? Connection Uptake. Are people getting online and connected? Willingness to Spend: Do people participate in the retail economy?

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Comparison Innovation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

Instead of hierarchical bureaucracy comprising a set of linear mechanisms that could be improved one-by-one through implementing proven remedial measures, it has acted more like an ingeniously morphing virus that steadily adapts itself to, and ultimately defeats, intended fixes and returns to its original state, sometimes more virulent than before.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

organizations with $10 million–$1 billion in revenue make up the fourth largest global economy in the world, with $3.8 Replace counterfeit “strategies” with real market identity. Many smaller companies are fortunate to find a market niche for a service or product that grows rapidly.

Company 8

Company Maturity Bureaucracy Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

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. This cost and service improvement then differentiates the insurers, pharmacies, and other disruptive newcomers in the market.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Passing the CEO baton to Barra tomorrow , Akerson said that she “brought order to chaos” in GM’s vast product development organization, mostly by flattening its bureaucracy and cutting overlapping layers of executives. She had “an ability with people” and a track record of bringing new models to market faster and at lower cost.

Team 8

Team McGregor Parcell Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The main reason is the fact that a lot of unfair trade is being practiced in the global economy. and China should be playing the same free-market, free-trade global game in accordance with the rules of the WTO and IMF (to which both countries belong). It's easy to understand why this sentiment has become so strong.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Globalization Committee Fashion 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Convinced that they have a sustainable competitive advantage (always a risky way to think about your business), executives allow bureaucracy to take over and decision-making to become sclerotic. And this despite having working prototypes of devices that could have come to market as the iPhone or iPad – years before Apple invented them.

Company 8

Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

If credible global institutions enter India, it will make the incumbent institutions' professional lives harder. First, consider inadequate competition between the schools. The severe competition among striving, smart youngsters allows institutions themselves to live the good life. Expect India's 'best' institutions, therefore, to resist.

Education 13

Education Bureaucracy System Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

They have, instead, everything to do with bureaucracy and interest group politics. In an increasingly global market both for consumers and entrepreneurial talent, even a slightly more efficient approach to regulating can make all the difference. In Washington, business as usual. Both the U.K. entrepreneurs twiddle their thumbs.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. At the extreme, your company becomes an out-of-touch bureaucracy where power shifts to corporate offices and to people who may never have served a customer or made a product.

Company 8

Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Think of GoPro taking the small camera market from Sony or maybe Netflix, not the networks, creating the first real Internet television business.) Though scale insurgents represent only about 7% of companies, we found they account for more than half of the net value in the global stock market each year.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Bureaucracy Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The market is competitive, but my research suggests that there are still opportunities in some specialty packaging markets. There are many factors that make it an attractive market. I want to build across markets to achieve scale. ”. “But you’re seriously considering Nigeria, right?” Michael said. Yes, of course.”

Case Study 8

Case Study Marketing Politics Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The environment for business is more dynamic, more complex, and more global than ever. Coordination & Control: With global supply chains, distributed production networks, and virtual teams, the challenges of coordination are more pressing than ever. In most organizations, managers are the rivets that hold everything together.

Organization 9

Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2011

Western generational models cannot be applied broadly to a global workforce. We focused on the generations in eight countries, including the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), some of the most important markets for talent over the next decade, as well as one country from the Middle East.

Education 14

Education White Paper Politics Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. The Global Digital Economy. ” GE adopted its FastWorks initiative, based on lean startup principles, to cut bureaucracy around innovation. Can it do so at the speed of a start-up?

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

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. But the traditions and rules that have strengthened the U.S.

Talent Management 10

Talent Management Learning-by-Doing Advertising System 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. Having startup policies without taking care of access to IPO markets is like having a fast new ramp onto a pot-holed dirt road. Convene, celebrate, catalyze.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8