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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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Despite My Desire to Bust Bureaucracy, I'm Grateful!

In all my clients - for detail see the article I published back in 2009 entitled "How to Bust Bureaucracy" It comes up easily with Google and my name.

By David Deane-Spread on March 13, 2022

Parkinsons Law and the misunderstanding of risk.

Bureaucracy is the glue that sticks organisations in place, it restricts change- because it is driven to prevent previous detrimental change at the expense of future necessary change.
Bureaucracy has two elements, a) reaction to problems, and b) a human element.
a) In the reaction to problems bureaucracy...

By Julian Wilson on March 13, 2022

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Influence of Bureaucracy on Business Process

This may not be specific to an Organization but my experience is that all the Best Practices and Business Processes adopted in an organization are supportive to bureaucracy. Be it Delivery Process, Research Process, Management Process or Marketing Process they all have influence of bureaucratic approach in defining, implementing and...

By Ghanshyam Sharan Singh on March 13, 2022

If you know how light a Candle darkness cannot cover you for long

At all levels more at the top and bottom levels

By NAVEEN KHAJANCHI on March 13, 2022

Speed

transparency

trust

Purposeful Purposelessness

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Bureaucracy is often a bi-product of ineffective risk-management.

Bureaucracy is particularly prevalent in large organisations and is often a bi-product of ineffective risk-management. In a lot of cases systems, processes, and controls are introduced to try and mitigate real or perceived risk. However, if the cost of mitigating that risk is greater than the risk itself, then there...

By cameron easton on March 12, 2022

Eager to learn a different path

our draconian SAP implementation!

By Michael Cromheecke on March 12, 2022

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Bottom-up Federations Are The Coming Organisations

Having worked many years in national and international bureaucracies I now organise in a bottom-up way and advocate for science-based Integrative Thinking, Integrative Problem Solving and Integrative Improvement to bring about Sustainable Development.

By Graham Douglas on March 12, 2022

Integrative Thinking

Integrative Problem Solving

Integrative Improvement

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Layers of plans and time lags between decision making and approval

Decision making in relation to finalising plans and progressing action. it has to be approved through four layers, all of them inefficient and time poor.
Layers of plans that have to be considered in any decision that is made-there can be up to eight different plans that need to...

By Monica Redden on March 12, 2022

Just the facts

Top down thinking and no engagement of front line

By Anonymous on March 12, 2022

NGO

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Bureaucracy as an emergency response / creeping bureaucracy

One place bureaucracy often emerges in organizations is in response to breakdowns or mistakes of the past. The idea is that, by having a process in place, we can stop "that awful thing that happened" from ever happening again.

By Chris Grams on March 12, 2022