Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

This is often referred to as “bureaucracy” and can quickly become abysmally restrictive and frustrating with feelings of; Innovative work thrusts are inhibited. Excessive ‘decentralization’ or ‘centralization’. These extra steps delay progress and kill any innovative ideas that you have. Stupid”rules applied by “Stupid” people.

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CO2

MAY 30, 2018

Setting a culture of adaptability via decentralized decision making. Innovation Verses Trade-offs : Move from knowing to not knowing, become more curious and look for innovation rather than trade-offs. Integrating Social Responsibility into the business model. Effectively making and executing the decisions.

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CEO Decentralization Objective Conference 60

Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

IT is an important subject for any organization and it becomes increasingly interwoven with business operations. The market a company operates in should also be taken into account for enterprise architecture. For the IT architecture to be effective, it should be between centralized and decentralized. Two Views on IT.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

If you are responsible for leading teams, how can you be sure that the work being done throughout the day will innovatively increase impact and productivity to make tomorrow a better place? Distinctio: Accept a New Way to Play in the Leadership and Innovation Sandbox – Differentiation. . “Skipper” Pitts.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The researchers believe that regulators will struggle to ban cryptocurrencies, such as Monero, that focus on privacy because it would be almost impossible to enforce across all the jurisdictions the currency operates in. ” Multitude of currencies.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

Blockchain technology – the decentralized tech that was famously introduced to supports bitcoin – is now be leveraged to remedy the many disparities that exist in today’s online content landscape. operate using for-profit, centralized business models that are wholly dependent on third parties. About the Author.

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Content Decentralization Advertising Incubator 61

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Hence, when (re-)designing the organization structure, they tend to decentralize decision-making, so that decision rights are as close as possible to the people who deal with customers, competitors, front-line employees, and other stakeholders. Decentralization allows immediacy in time and place, hence responsiveness.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. It becomes how we operate on a day-to-day basis.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2019

Co-location facilitates collaborative teamwork and innovation, so companies have to find a way to balance the needs of their employees with these core fundamentals. Let’s take innovation, for instance. We’ve also been told that silos can stifle innovation and should be avoided at all costs. The answer is yes.

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Strategy Tips Agility Globalization 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. Yet, despite their stated enthusiasm, hospitals have been notoriously slow to adopt digital innovations. health care system.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

Whether you are an emerging leader with a small team or an experienced leader responsible for directing the daily operations of a multinational organization, these seven CEO success tips will allow you to glean insight into your marathon by looking at the roadmap to help you win the race without fail. Follow me on Twitter @SkippersBiz.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2020

There are no managers, no strict job roles, and no vacation limits at Satalia, a London-based company that delivers AI solutions. How does it work?

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The other, smaller and rarer, is decentralized, horizontal, and inclusive. Rather than striving to be content experts on every aspect of their operation, they need to be able to collect, sort, analyze data, and edit all communication and collaborative streams of information that could potentially influence their business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. But giving up the pursuit of innovation seems less than satisfying, if not unrealistic.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Despite good intentions—and widespread acceptance of the importance of innovation—efforts to innovate at large companies often lack a clear mission and framework, and as a result, they go off the rails. At Samsung, the other aspects of the innovation process are relatively well managed at the operating level.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Innovation and experimentation become organizational values. The first step in achieving the vision of a decentralized, citizen-focused police service. Field operations are decentralized into four areas of the city – central, south, east, north and west. Year eight. At this point, only the EPD has a building.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In prior blog posts, we have described how Western multinationals such as Xerox and GE are embracing polycentric innovation by sourcing more R&D capabilities from emerging markets such as India and China and integrating them into a synergistic global innovation network. Decentralize and empower global R&D units. and the U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. But what if an innovation poses a threat, and you can’t yet tell whether it has genuinely transformative potential? Fuse/Getty Images. These are rarely studied questions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Innovative. The consultant has a solution: decentralize. We’re too decentralized. What we don’t see is that it makes more sense to balance practicality and innovation, boldness and prudence, collaborativeness and self-reliance, agility and consistency — without choosing sides between them. Collaborative.

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Skills Decentralization Agility Resistance 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture. This is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Currently gaining force is a movement to focus for-profit enterprises more on the essential work of enriching societies — that is, benefiting not only those humans who are their owners as publicly traded companies but also those who work in them and who stand to benefit from more purpose-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. On April 8, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, Texas , disrupting residents and overwhelming 911 operators throughout the day.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2013

We at MIT CISR have found that enterprises are using one or more of three approaches to managing total digitization: convergence, coordination, or a separate digital innovation stacks approach. Separate Digital Innovation Stacks. News Corp ) commits a firm to local innovation, often organized by products or stand-alone businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S. Amazon’s culture is a tight one, characterized by structure and precision.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clay Christensen, the innovation expert, advocates instead the approach taken by Wharton, which has made MOOCs out of all its core courses. The company simply straddled the two channels, without creating any operating linkages across them. We are decentralized and mostly non-profit. But I dont have to. .

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

GE now operates in 175 countries across the globe.) So a constant reengineering of our business portfolio, operating model, and culture has been a key to our evolution. The context demanded operational excellence. In the first part of this century, innovation became the priority. Let’s take the 1990s.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

They had to work in sequence, meaning they had to streamline the operation first — before they could launch their new growth effort. The underlying trouble had been McDonald’s working from an inside-out perspective: what fit with its current infrastructure and operations.

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Products Productivity Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Today, Alibaba looks more like a conglomerate than a typical tech company, with a diverse set of businesses operating largely independently. Though Ma’s apartment no longer serves as a rite of passage for Alibaba’s innovators, the culture it created lives on. Entrepreneurship Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. It was part of a larger overhaul that included automating some distillery operations, which gave it better data and helped slash energy and water use.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

It takes organizational, cultural, and operational changes. Decentralizing the procurement model and process is another key step, from establishing and enforcing quality standards across a distributed workforce to adjusting accounting and logistics systems to work with smaller suppliers. There are other operational considerations.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. More people are working in big, bureaucratic organizations than ever before. Here’s the arithmetic.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

Organizations I work with increasingly struggle to straddle two painfully polarizing operating principles. This conflict uncomfortably transcends traditional “centralization/decentralization” debates. But the managerial and operational ability to act on that data-driven information may not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. For instance, we often announce an innovation budget and invite applications to pilot ideas. We encourage you to experiment with outcome-based, decentralized models as you seek to get the most out of your remote teams.

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