Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

. “A lot of lifestyle businesses used to not be able to get started in larger-run manufacturing which was a pitfall for any small-scale renaissance,” observes Mark Hatch, founder of TechShop , a chain of urban maker spaces in U.S. metros like Austin, Pittsburgh, and the Bay Area. This opens up possibilities.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Yet rather than license its breakthrough technology to a company such as Nikon and sell the product through traditional camera retailers, Lytro is building its own camera that it will sell through Internet channels such as Amazon and via the company's own website. Sales channels can also choke bold inventions.

Contract Manufacturing 11

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

So, like good innovators, we began working on a solution to our colleague’s problem by building an automatic liquor inventory-management system. The integration between the tags, the storage unit, and the software was technologically tough to pull off. Our failure highlights a hidden challenge facing innovators today.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Software Contract Manufacturing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As companies rethink their supply chains, they ought to seriously consider embracing a new manufacturing technology that’s now ready for prime time: 3-D printing. No longer relegated to trinkets and prototyping, 3-D printing, which is also called additive manufacturing , is now moving into mass production.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Software Learning Curve 10