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). 20% at Nationwide).

Tools 15

Tools Taylorism Taylor Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. At the same time, powerful new tools are becoming increasingly available to enable real-time strategic decision making. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The buzz around using predictive tools to analyze big data in discrete areas of a business is loud and deserved. At the same time, powerful new tools are becoming increasingly available to enable real-time strategic decision making. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The movement challenged the influence of Fredrick Taylor’s scientific management, which had reduced workers to unwieldy cogs in efficiency-seeking industrial machines. Think of the difference between a profile on social media, say, and one in a literary magazine. A practical humanism, paradoxically, is of little use.

Drucker 13

Drucker Mayo Technology Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

See here for an excellent list of 500 auto-analytic tools.) Below are five pointers to frame and guide the conversation for technology geeks and practitioners to champion the use of auto-analytics in their businesses: Auto-analytics can be understood within the tradition of scientific management.

Organization 12

Organization Self-aware Taylorism Taylor 12