As many of you are aware that traditional bureaucracy operates as "permission to act". Employees are conditioned by management to always seek permission/approval before they act. In order words, there is implied negative consent and positive consent has to be explicitly sought.
One of the approach to bust this...

In order to have a streamlined, cost-efficient and powerful organization, we need to think as if we start the organization right now and without any restrictions. We only think of the customer, our employees and other stakeholders. It is not the management team or consultants, who do the design, but...

Design some explicit "systems" to operate by.

Systems that include responsibility for quality, timely delivery of product/service whilst adhering to the laws of the land.... and producing a profit whilst doing it.

These are not "nice to have", "goals" or "aims"; these are often contracted obligations between the corp....

In Phase 1 of this hackathon, submitters were asked how bureaucracy makes my job tasks (e.g., submitting an expense report) harder or easier. I cited the following factors:

- the amount of time I have to spend interacting with the bureaucracy,
- the amount of training that I have...