Harvard Business
JANUARY 3, 2018
Employees perceive bureaucracy to be an immovable beast, blocking their path toward efficient, satisfying work lives. In our research, originally published in Administrative Science Quarterly , we compared two contrasting production settings: film sets and a semiconductor equipment manufacturing firm.
Brimstone Consulting
AUGUST 7, 2020
Several years ago, I conducted an evaluation of a program that showed films to refugees in a large refugee camp in Kenya. When the COO asked what they were doing, the linemen said that they were organizing their routes for the day to make them more efficient. The COO was shocked they were doing this and not the system planners.
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LSA Global
APRIL 18, 2017
They were famously sued by Polaroid when Kodak’s version of an instant developing camera was deemed an illegal knock-off; they did not stay price competitive against low-cost mass distributors; they lost their film market in good part to Fuji; and they bought into the pharmaceutical industry with little idea of how the pharma business works.
Harvard Business
JULY 13, 2016
Companies should look beyond the typical goals of size, scale and efficiency – and instead seek to rebuild their capacity for growth. They are highly efficient at what they do, but struggle to do anything new. At Disney, this meant convincing Pixar to outsource some parts of production and to pursue direct-to-DVD films.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Now Leonardo was clearly a genius of historical proportions, but think about how much more efficient he would have been with a decent search engine. You can see this at work at Pixar, which was originally a technology company that began shooting short films to demonstrate the capabilities of its original product, animation software.
Seth Godin Blog
MARCH 6, 2021
Like a Pokemon card, or an original Picasso drawing or the actual frame of a Disney animated film from 1955, NFTs are designed to be the one and only, a shred of non-fungible reality in a world gone digital. It’s an ongoing waste that creates little in ongoing value and gets less efficient and more expensive as time goes on.
Harvard Business
MAY 22, 2017
This includes not just understanding how competitors might use new technologies to create competing products and services more efficiently at lower cost but also exploring new business models and corporate models. Company leaders will need to invest time and money in studying their industries and how they will be impacted by technology.
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