In 1997, Indonesia passed a long-term plan that lasted less than one year. In 1998, the fiscal crisis and the downfall of Soeharto made the plan both useless and contrary to the demands of the Reform ...

Weber On The Bureaucratic Iron Cage. Norman And Brown On Human-Centered Design. Deci And Ryan On Motivation. Conventional change management theory (described in my first post) ignores a concept that ...

Like many big companies, Google has a bureaucracy problem. Senior execs who left in recent years complain of long decision cycles, a faltering pace of innovation, and a waning appetite for risk. Paul ...

For most companies, organization design could be seen as an oxymoron: Organizational structures rarely arise from systematic and planned intervention. They tend to evolve and emerge over time in ...

We recently asked members of the HBR community to gauge the extent of “bureaucratic sclerosis” within their organization using our Bureaucracy Mass Index (BMI) tool. Since then, we’ve received over ...

Designing the right business model and value proposition is fundamental to the success of any endeavor—yet rarely have governments used these practices. We caught up with Michael Eales, a business ...

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed! n 1997, Indonesia passed a ...