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.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Employees need to constantly write six-page memos, even for introducing small product features throughout their careers at the company. 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. That’s the hard part.”
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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.
LSA Global
APRIL 18, 2017
This outsized, rugged, status-symbol of a GM product failed to see the writing on the wall. But many would say that Kodak failed because they didn’t foresee how quickly and completely digital cameras would take over the industry that depended on film sales. Autopsy #2 – Hummer. They were caught behind the times. What do you think?
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
Retailers such as Macy’s and The Limited are closing hundreds of stores and cutting tens of thousands of jobs as people buy more and more products online, and others are testing robotic assistants or planning for autonomous stores. Over 33 companies are now working on autonomous vehicles, which will soon replace transport jobs.
Harvard Business
JANUARY 9, 2017
The truth is, AI is as “fully-automated” as the Great and Powerful Oz was in that famous scene from the classic film , where Dorothy and friends realize that the great wizard is simply a man manically pulling levers from behind a curtain.
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