Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But maybe the thrill of accomplishment in these pockets is diverting senior managers’ attention from another, even more critical opportunity: Digital technologies are also rapidly changing how managers can acquire and assess the information they use to develop and execute on enterprise-wide strategy. To what extent?

Strategy 9

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But maybe the thrill of accomplishment in these pockets is diverting senior managers’ attention from another, even more critical opportunity: Digital technologies are also rapidly changing how managers can acquire and assess the information they use to develop and execute on enterprise-wide strategy. To what extent?

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority.

Lean Manufacturing 8

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management.

Taylorism 10

Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the late 19th and early 20th century, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business. Perceiving a need for a more cerebral breed of managers to preside over corporations of unprecedented scale and scope, both looked for models to the research-driven natural science fields.

Education 16

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

As we automate more and more routine work, generating ever greater volumes of digital data, managers are focusing ever more on supporting knowledge workers — which these days is just about everybody. But most companies find it a cultural challenge to adopt these tools. 20% at Nationwide).

Tools 15

Tools Taylorism Taylor Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the late 19th and early 20th century, with modern times knocking on the door, successful businessmen like Joseph Wharton wanted to professionalize companies and legitimize working in business. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

Education 9

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

And within many companies, a tribal war is raging between these nerds and everyone else. Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. The Future of Operations. ” But here’s the problem for operations: Standardized processes that work are great. Every large institution has them.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Sometime in the next few weeks, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company will emerge from bankruptcy. Department of Justice even convicted the company of illegal restraint of trade for selling food too cheaply. Hartford, remade their company again and again to keep in step with changing times. In 1946, the U.S. and John A.

P&L 14

P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 14

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Scientific Management An industrial engineer in the early 1900s, Frederick Winslow Taylor was obsessed with productivity enhancement. This study examined thousands of managers across industries with two basic parameters: Was the manager successful? Did the team or group the manager led hit their productivity targets?

Situational Leadership 52

Situational Leadership Hersey Blanchard Argyris 52