Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Optimistic employees work harder, longer and with a more innovative spirit. Optimism frames and fuels decisions, and in the modern workplace, it fosters solid work, innovation and sales. Microsoft has no shortage of firsts for technology, but they fail to generate the same buzz. Is bureaucracy weighing you down?

Chief Executive Officer 185

Chief Executive Officer Bureaucracy Motivation Innovation 185

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

They claim to want big, innovative new ideas. Organizational – your organizational bureaucracy smothers the idea. Technological – current technology can’t leverage the idea. Innovation book review creativity innovation owens' Most people claim they want more creativity in their organization.

Creativity 94

Creativity Innovation Constraint Bureaucracy 94

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 27, 2024

Researchers at Bocconi University suggest that informal groups, working together in areas with tough competition and poor resource management, could be the solution to creating innovation hubs. These hubs, or innovation ecosystems, bring together government, universities, and others to boost innovation and commercialize key technologies.

Information 72

Information Innovation Bureaucracy Cooper 72

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

Mistakes, loss of creativity and innovation. 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. Higher levels of stress and stress related illnesses and absenteeism.

Bond 243

Bond Attrition Absenteeism Bureaucracy 243

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. Ranking is good for command and control, but not good for change and innovation. Or will your technology cause you to shipwreck and pull you under? Rank Has Its Privileges?

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Newsletter Leadership Learning Curve Bureaucracy 162

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The CEO of a leading telecommunications company recently embarked on an innovative approach. Traditional compensation plans must be challenged, needless bureaucracy eliminated, and intrapreneurial opportunities provided.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Strategy Driven

MARCH 25, 2020

Startups are good at innovation for many reasons, but the two most important ones are people and culture. One of the solutions that some larger companies have tried is to create an innovative startup within an existing business. These internal startups strive to be innovative, but tend to become more incremental.

Innovation 82

Innovation Organization Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing 82

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

A Leader’s Insights In “ Joy, Inc – How We Built a Workplace People Love ”, Richard Sheridan, cofounder and CEO of software design firm Menlo Innovations, delineates the practical steps he has taken to create and maintain a corporate culture that makes people “excited to come to work every day.”

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Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Many of us have a positive and innovative vision of a prosperous Europe, but to implement this we must address the problem of our broken immigration system. So, every day that we turn back a skilled migrant due to slow immigration processes or ridiculous bureaucracy, we are costing our community five jobs.

Marketing 74

Marketing Bureaucracy Globalization Policies 74

Ask Atma

MAY 5, 2012

As technology-satellites, cellular networks, etc…- made the transmission and reception nearly instantaneously, this float collapsed. Today, technologies such as social media, smart phones, high-speed data mining, ubiquitously networked electronic devices, etc… have precipitated the collapse of the customer feedback float.

Business Model 93

Business Model Ries Agility Entrepreneur 93

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

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 15

Bureaucracy Company Agility CIO 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. 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 12

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. 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 12

Bureaucracy Short-term Long-term Intellectual Capital 12

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. Does your company rely on barriers such as proprietary technology, arbitrary business rules, regulations or litigation to stifle competition? Is anybody steering the ship?

Strategy 50

Strategy Succession Software Industry 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

Department of State is a seriously big bureaucracy. My experience as a digital leader in the Obama administration confirmed my optimism that change can come to large bureaucracies. These were the groups we found most innovative, collaborative, and receptive to new ideas, as well as to sharing their own ideas. Our opposition.

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy Politics Technology Morale 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

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. In 1999, the U.S. Bad Work, Poor Planning.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

That is, why bother trying to innovate if no matter what they do, large companies can no longer maintain a sustainable advantage and their life spans are just getting shorter and shorter? In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will. “Why bother?”. But it is a cost nonetheless.

Innovation 11

Innovation Venture Capitalist Company Supply Chain 11

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

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. As the failures piled up, so did the stories of mounting bureaucracy, back-stabbing, and top management "living in a different world".

Supply Chain 17

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 17

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

APRIL 12, 2017

The White House recently formed the Office of American Innovation, which has a stated focus on “implementing policies and scaling proven private-sector models to spur job creation and innovation.” presidential innovation fellow and a cofounder of 18F , a digital services office within the U.S.

Advice 14

Advice Bureaucracy Innovation Chief Technology Officer 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2013

You''ve been working at a small start-up for a while now when a large, deep-pocketed corporation comes knocking, asking you to join its innovation team. Or will you end up drowning in bureaucracy, pining for the white-knuckled start-up pace you''re used to? Should you take the job? Is the company "healthy but worried?"

Innovation 9

Innovation Uncertainty Bureaucracy Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy. Rather than being destroyed by digital technology, they’re strengthened by it. Technologies have allowed the marketing organization to become more efficient and effective. Innovation Is Marketing’s Job, Too. The hierarchy is still in place.

Technology 9

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In today's world, start-ups aren't the only ones who can innovate. As I discussed in my post How Big Companies Can Save Innovation , large companies are now better positioned to innovate than ever before. Innovation increasingly involves creating business models that tap big companies' unique strengths.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Robert MacDonald, one of the most offbeat and opinionated insurance-industry executives I've met (yes, I know, he doesn't have tons of competition), has a way with words when it comes to innovation. That was the spirit behind LifeUSA, MacDonald's memorable contribution to an industry whose record of innovation is pretty forgettable. "If

Insurance 15

Insurance Bureaucracy Innovation Industry 15

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 17

Organization Open-book Bureaucracy CEO 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

One of the driving principles of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation is that everyone wins when everyone shares. As you design your hack or start to think about your innovation story, the first question to ask yourself is: does it tackle a root cause or a deeply embedded pathology of organizations?

Management 15

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

The news that Cisco is dismantling its unique structure of councils and boards to reduce bureaucracy presents a cautionary tale and an insight into the true meaning of teamwork and collaboration in organizations. Until a charter was created with guidelines about participation, some managers sat on as many as 14 boards and councils.

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Team Sports Teamwork Bureaucracy 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

What if this model existed on a larger scale to help staff innovation and growth strategy initiatives for big business? I previously wished for a Shark-Tank for Corporate America to create more efficient capital markets to fund great innovation ideas bogged down by bureaucracy. Executing on Innovation. Special Series.

Innovation 9

Innovation Project Bureaucracy Talent Management 9

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

It’s often not much more complicated than studying the patient’s needs, studying the work, and respecting and engaging team members to have a say in how processes, technology, and spaces are designed and utilized. Mark is also the Vice President of Improvement & Innovation Services for the software company KaiNexus.

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. The centrality of innovation to the future — electric cars, hybrids, self-driving cars, and beyond — makes her experience pivotal.

Engineering 14

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When we launched the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation last year, we aimed to enlist the most progressive practitioners and thinkers in the collective effort of reinventing what we call "the technology of human accomplishment." Innovating Innovation. Vote on your favorite challenges.

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Innovation McKinsey Management Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Challenge (the first of three legs of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation) here last week. Here are just three lessons from our management innovators about leveraging social technologies to create truly social organizations: Trust your people with the future of the company.

Management 12

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

It should come as no surprise, however, that as any innovative idea spreads, so do the misconceptions and mythology. For corporations, innovation, product acquisition, talent retention, and supply change development may be the benefits. For entrepreneurs and investors, wealth creation may be the benefit.

Entrepreneur 13

Entrepreneur Incubator Bureaucracy Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

The digital sector is one of the most dynamic and innovative elements of the economies of the UK and the EU – and of countries anywhere; in the UK alone it accounts for 16% of domestic output, 10% of employment, and 24% of exports. Is there access to Information and Communications Technology infrastructure? Bureaucracy.

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Bureaucracy Comparison Innovation Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

economy is not just the opportunity for raw innovation, but the ability to scale new technologies within large global companies. One might even say that an increasing advantage of the U.S. To date, few companies have mastered this skill.

Company 16

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 16