Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. It involves replacing traditional mass manufacturing with “lean manufacturing” principles. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Insight Center.

Lean Manufacturing 8

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

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

AUGUST 23, 2012

The organizational and operational benefits of targeted testing are not. But far too few organizations use targeted tests to simultaneously learn and accelerate the development process. "To do all of them at one time without testing the first one — you have to question what kind of strategy that is.".

Leadership 12

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Every successful conglomerate we know of — GE, Honeywell, Tata and United Technologies Corporation among them — has prospered by doing two things. Of course, the very diversity that defines a conglomerate makes it hard to enforce the discipline of coherence. There is no universal answer.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Generally, what we see is the country where the final assembly of a product took place. Almost every sophisticated manufacturer uses some kind of lean production system that pulls raw materials in from a warehouse. A big reason is technological complexity. And it’s an issue in the United States as well.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8