Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

After a decade of painstaking research, we have concluded that American firms are on average the best managed in the world. But while Americans are bad at football (or soccer, as it's known as locally), they are the Brazilians of Management. This has allowed us to create the first global database of management practices.

Management 16

Management Survey Class Lean Production 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Operations in a Connected World.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. A few decades ago, U.S.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The organizational and operational benefits of targeted testing are not. At one telecoms company with a disappointing history of troubled upgrades and delayed rollouts, I saw a key innovation team present its testing program and testing reviews to senior management. These pathologies are nothing new. Jaws dropped.

Leadership 13

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

A conglomerate, by definition, is a large corporation with diversified product lines , owned and run by the same management. As many economists have argued, the burden of proof is on the company's management to show that these diverse businesses are better off together than they would be independently.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8