Contract Manufacturing Development Innovation Technology 
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
But in my research, and in conversations with hardware entrepreneurs throughout the country, I have noticed several developments that have put manufacturing start-up activity on a faster, more commercial track. Likewise, manufacturing enterprises could flourish without needing large exurban spaces.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2011
The firm has developed a sensing system that captures light hitting the camera from a variety of angles, not just what strikes a plane set behind a small aperture. If the company were selling just one small piece of a camera, a manufacturer such as Nikon might swap out old technology for the new one.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 24, 2014
The resulting challenges may include new contract-manufacturing relationships, which can be a complicated and disorienting process for the uninitiated. HR has the job of developing the human capabilities needed to capture the IoT opportunity. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum.
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.
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