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 Long-term Short-term 141

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. They don’t forget a birthday or a chance to surprise a prospect.

Innovation 150

Innovation Budgeting Strategic Planning Tools 150

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

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. In my lifetime, I have witnessed my home country, Estonia, going from rags to riches by reinventing what a country is and how it can operate.

Marketing 74

Marketing Bureaucracy Globalization Policies 74

Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

They reward unfavorable behaviors, while operating with myopic interests and escalating bureaucracy. Employees know what many leaders haven''t figured out: Parental, top-down cultures in today''s world are as ineffective as one-size-fits-all, print-only marketing approaches. Capture Your Market Share. Related articles.

Self-aware 91

Self-aware Bureaucracy Open-book Ethics 91

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 2, 2020

It shows clear attempts to move exports away from EU markets to elsewhere in the world. The data showed that the smallest exporters were shifting up to 46% of their export growth from the EU to other markets since the referendum in 2016, with slightly larger firms shifting around 19% of their exports. Gravity defying. Tariff barriers.

Supply Chain 91

Supply Chain Hedge Credit Risk Bureaucracy 91

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Over the last few decades, the US has transformed from a "real economy" (where capital market manias tend to be contained by the availability of savings and credit) to a "financial economy" where the unlimited availability of credit leads to speculative bubbles (read: the roaring '20s & '90s) which get totally out of hand.

Banking 105

Banking Mayo Bureaucracy Report 105

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Running a bureaucracy.

Strategic Planning 63

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 63

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. What Causes Crises. Won’t listen to advice. Circumstances Beyond Our Control.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Consultative 58

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.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term Intellectual Capital 12

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.

Bureaucracy 12

Bureaucracy Long-term Short-term Intellectual Capital 12

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses.

Resources 87

Resources Innovation GDP Education 87

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

MAY 22, 2018

Believe it or not, bureaucracy was once a progressive innovation. Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies.

Bureaucracy 15

Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 15

Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

Brand 50

Brand Analysis Advertising Software 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In a recent article , Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini detail the toll that growing bureaucracy is taking across industries. Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. ” I beg to differ.

Health Care 8

Health Care Bureaucracy Hamel System 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Nokia's inability to field a credible response to the launch of the iPhone in 2007 and Google's Android operating system in 2008 has precipitated a freefall in its share price. 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 18

Supply Chain Long-term Brand Early Adopters 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

A few years ago one of the most vexing questions for marketing executives was whether big corporations were going to have to do what Bharti Airtel had done. Airtel’s move quickly transformed the mobile-phone market in India as other telecomms followed suit. Now, by “hierarchy” I don’t mean a stifling bureaucracy.

Technology 9

Technology Marketing Outsourcing Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. As a result, a new era is emerging.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Not so long ago, businesses were merely expected to conform to the laws and regulations of the countries in which they operated. But as business became more global, spreading to emerging and developing markets in pursuit of cheap resources and labor, corporate leaders entered countries with weak institutions, bureaucracy and corruption.

Globalization 15

Globalization Bureaucracy Efficiency Ethics 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Unlike Bentley or Rolls-Royce, GM is a mass-market car company in the U.S.

CEO 14

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Unproductive routines, corporate bureaucracy, and “administrivia” kill ambition and sap energy for far too many employees. redesign the operating model. These proliferating operations lead to complexity, which contributes to drag as well as costs that rob resources from better and potentially more-profitable ideas.

Organization 16

Organization Zero Based Budgeting Budgeting How To 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2011

Each Question Box was set to speed dial our operator, a young woman with a mobile phone and Internet connection in her house. Callers pushed the green button, connected to our Operator, and asked in local dialect any question they wanted. In more rural areas, Question Box was primarily used to check weather and crop market prices.

Strategy 17

Strategy Short-term Price Bureaucracy 17

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

MARCH 8, 2012

Instead of a byzantine maze of programs and bureaucracies, government's myriad responsibilities and customers can be seen as a series of markets that can be shaped to cultivate very different, less expensive — and ultimately more effective — ways of supplying public services. At $500 billion annually, the U.S.

Disruptive Innovation 15

Disruptive Innovation Health Care Business Model Education 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

We do not know the effectiveness of particular curricula, probably set by a sclerotic and unconstrained bureaucracy, nor the effectiveness of particular institutions, nor the ability of particular teachers to excite enthusiasm or to inspire a lifelong commitment to learning. As the old saw goes, what is not measured is not managed.

Education 16

Education Bureaucracy Learning-by-Doing System 16

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 14

Management Ethics Cost Bureaucracy 14

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." In 2009, he confessed to developing an ill-conceived plan to market GEICO credit cards and also failed to rein in NetJets' debt, which had soared to $1.9 He annually reports on his own mistakes.

Letter 15

Letter P&L Insurance Net Present Value 15

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 15

Company Supply Chain Retail Bureaucracy 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

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). The United States is playing free-market free-trade capitalism while China is playing mercantilist state capitalism. Let's start with the false premise. It's a whack-a-mole game.

Bureaucracy 14

Bureaucracy Globalization Committee Fashion 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Cutting through rules, defanging the powers-that-be, wading through the sludge of bureaucracy, and detoxing the pervasive culture of fear and mistrust in our organizations takes real intestinal fortitude. Is it Bold? It's nearly impossible to overstate the gravity of the status quo. One place to start: the fringe. The Management 2.0

Management 14

Management Short-term How To Strategic Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

Frustrated employees were complaining about the lack of amenities — such as child care facilities — on campus and the stifling bureaucracy which, for instance, made expense reimbursment a time-consuming process.

Innovation 12

Innovation Attrition Software Globalization 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. Here’s the arithmetic. trillion, of which the non-U.S.

Cost 8

Cost Bureaucracy GDP Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Top 10 Operational Impacts of the GDPR (IAPP). GDPR also bears more than a hint of the kind of protectionism that has featured prominently in EU technology policy since the 2015 release of the plan for a “Digital Single Market,” including recent announcements of new taxes for U.S.-based Full Text of the Regulations.

Advertising 14

Advertising Cost Business Model Information 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

In research for our book, The Founder’s Mentality , my coauthor and I found that 85% of the time, the barriers to sustainable growth are not external, but internal, and include bureaucracy, ability to motivate and retain talent, and slowness to decide, act or redeploy. When Home Depot slipped to last among U.S.

Company 8

Company Bureaucracy Long-term Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Medtronic used business model innovation to enter markets formerly out of its reach. 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

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Five things differentiate the former from the latter: Bureaucracy and politics. That is not to say people in a large company can’t successfully explore new business models, design remarkable products and experiences, or pursue new markets. Finding new ways to fuel growth is essential.

Entrepreneur 11

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Long-term Bureaucracy 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The next rung of leaders who operate from different geographies or second-tier P&Ls often have to converge on this center of gravity for reviews and the occasional reprimand. In a hyper-speed world with multiple divergences, a vertical chain of command with annual rituals creates isolation, sluggishness, and bureaucracy.

Agility 8

Agility Bureaucracy Competitive Advantage Software 8