The Busting Bureaucracy Hackathon

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WELCOME

Welcome to the “Busting Bureaucracy” Hackathon. Over the next few months, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with other leading thinkers and practitioners from around the world to address a truly pressing challenge:

How can technology enable tomorrow’s winning management practices and “bust” the bureaucracy that stifles most organizations today?

PHASE 1: INITIAL BRAINSTORM

Help kickstart the hackathon by sharing your take on how bureaucracy (i.e., top-down command structures and formal rules and procedures focused on conformance) is stifling your organization’s ability to adapt, innovate, or truly engage its people. To get some context and inspiration, read Gary Hamel's introductory blog and watch his welcome video.

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The note of bureaucracy is located throughout a company. The most challenged area is the middle management area where middle managers are not passing important information up and also communicating it down so adaption can take place.

It is everywhere in large organizations - it arises out of a need to standardize, reduce variance, consolidate information, coordinate action and in those roles generates benefit and value. But is it really necessary?

By Jim Stikeleather on March 12, 2022

Everywhere - it is a natural result of a drive to efficiency, attempts to reduce risks.

By Jim Stikeleather on March 12, 2022

Startups are supposed to grow, and grow fast. Growth means hiring more and more people, and bureaucracy creep is guaranteed to happen along the way, unless you pay close attention to it. You may even welcome it, thinking it will solve your growing pains, until you finally realize that it...

Large public organisations are synonymous to bureaucracy. In a rapidly changing world every challenge is unique; it requires a measured response with an appropriate business action, and while the organisation management might not be oblivious to the need of a new approach, it will implement it on top of the...

Very much a top down bureaucratic structure. Very traditional with several functional silos and tight chain of command that works in a typical manufacturing laid /biased traditional organization.

By Vivek Paranjpe on March 11, 2022

Clarifying roles and responsibilities

Requesting a technology project ( enhancement or new)

By J machuca on March 10, 2022

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