Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. The more deeply Jim's essays discussed the nature of supplier relationships, work-flow and value creation in lean enterprise, the keener the connection with YouTube's Space. They don't just partner; they provide resources that add value.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In the 1990s, a whole subfield of economics reached "virtually unanimous agreement," as a survey in the Journal of Economic Perspectives noted , that in the context of technological change, markets themselves inevitably drove U.S. Does production really work this way? income inequality. Clark set out to disprove this indictment.

Automotive 10

Automotive Lean Production Marketing Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

When I've seen individuals, project teams and organizations humiliatingly — and expensively — fail at innovation, the odds are they overinvested in sophisticated analyses and underinvested in simple tests. My favorite excuses are the ones where team leaders piously declare there's simply not enough time or money for testing.

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. Every successful conglomerate we know of — GE, Honeywell, Tata and United Technologies Corporation among them — has prospered by doing two things. But that probably won't work.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Companies are touting chief innovation officers, innovation teams, innovations strategies, and even innovation days," the hard-hitting piece noted. They said, "We wanted to build the greatest customer-service brand in the world, a company whose mission is not simply to deliver products but to deliver happiness."

Innovation 17

Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 17