Comments on: BMW sez: bureaucracy sucks

By: Bunny

Bunny — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:10:45 +0000

BMW hates bureaucracy so much that they have decided to leave Argentina than try to deal with the red tape and trade restrictions here.

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Your Company Should Not Use Social Media. Ever. | Professional Blog Service — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:33:22 +0000

[...] You have to deal with Legal or Regulatory Compliance issues. Ochman may have said it, but it bears repeating. A lot. I’ve had to deal with Legal departments in the past, and at best, they’re mild annoyances. But when they feel they need to actually dictate the marketing message, they become a roadblock to everything. That’s when the Marketing Department either needs to turn control of marketing to Legal, or ask for the rights to edit and rewrite all legal briefs. Then point them to Alexander Kjerulf’s post about BMW’s latest ads about how bureaucracy sucks. [...]

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By: Alexander Kjerulf

Alexander Kjerulf — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:10:22 +0000

Mike, I figured this would be right up your alley :o) I get almost all my pictures from stock.xchng at http://www.sxc.hu. They have lots of great pictures and most of them are free!!!

And thanks for your comment Lars. I just bought your book today and am a third of the way through it already. It rocks!

The american auto industry has definitely lost it’s way. In your book your write about the necessity for a partnership between management and employees. For an excellent example of how GM fails to do this, read Life on the Line by Solange deSantis (review here: http://positivesharing.com/2005/07/book-review-life-on-the-line).

She’s a journalist who worked undercover in a GM van plant for 18 months and saw first hand how the creativity, ideas and energy of the employees was consistently ignored and wasted.

The fact that Oticon is approaching GM in value is a testament to the fact that innovation beats bureaucracy – which is precisely the point of your book.

By: Kolind Kuren » Blog-arkiv » BMW gør noget ved bureaukratiet

Kolind Kuren » Blog-arkiv » BMW gør noget ved bureaukratiet — Fri, 19 May 2006 17:38:15 +0000

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By: Lars Kolind

Lars Kolind — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:50:09 +0000

Super information. In my new book The Second Cycle – Winning the War against Bureaucracy, (see http://www.thesecondcycle.com, also available in Danish, see http://www.kolindkuren.dk) I highlight the US auto industry as the prototype of an industry that needs to get out of the bureaucracy trap. The US auto industry is complacent, lacks a clear meaning, lacks partnership with employees, builds on a rigid hierarchical organizational structure and lacks value-based leadership. Loosers are customers, employees, subsuppliers, distributors and indeed shareholders. Did you know that the hearing aid company Oticon that I turned around from bankruptcy, now has a market capitalization of about one third of General Motors Corporation?

By: Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner — Fri, 19 May 2006 16:10:04 +0000

Alex, love this post. Where did you get the picture!

And this is the perfect hope generating post for a Friday – if Germans can loosen up their bureaucracy, there is hope for all of us! Smile.

Thanks for enlarging the conversation – much appreciated on this side of the pond.