How Companies Like Google and Alibaba Respond to Fast-Moving Markets

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Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Dave Ulrich, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, argues today's companies need to replace old hierarchical models with he calls a “market-oriented ecosystem.” From research at Alibaba, Google, Huawei, Supercell, and others, he shows the impressive results of orienting teams and processes toward market opportunities. Ulrich is the coauthor, along with Tencent senior advisor Arthur Yeung, of “Reinventing the Organization: How Companies Can Deliver Radically Greater Value in Fast-Changing Markets.”

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0:00.0	When leadership advice feels like buzzwords and platitudes, it's time to get real.
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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Kurt Nickickett. The traditional hierarchical organization, we all know, has served its purpose.
0:50.0	Scale, it did that well. Speed was another thing.
0:54.0	Nowadays, the agile organization, the networked organization, or even holocracy,
0:59.0	offer competing models for running a company.
1:01.0	What type of organization is going to prove superior at scale and speed?
1:06.5	To answer that question, our guest today studied and visited some of the biggest and fastest
1:11.0	companies out there.
1:12.4	Firms like Google and Amazon in the U.S. and
1:13.0	Amazon in the US, D.D. and Alibaba in China and super sell in Europe.
1:18.0	And the research reveals a blueprint for what makes these companies so successful. Our guest calls them
1:24.5	market-oriented ecosystems and he's here today to tell us what makes them tick.
1:29.5	Dave Ulrich is a professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
1:34.8	He's the co-author along with Arthur Young, a senior advisor at Tencent of a new book.
1:40.3	It's called Reinventing the Organization, how companies can deliver radically greater value in fast-changing markets.
1:47.0	Dave, thanks for coming on the show.
1:49.0	Kurt, what a privilege to be with you. Thank you for inviting me. What is wrong with the existing?
1:57.0	What is wrong with the existing image of a winning company?
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