Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Fed up with Beijing’s industrial espionage, market manipulation, and cyber attacks on the West, coupled with its bullying of neighbors and repression at home, the Trump administration announced a series of strong steps to fight back. Those supports will be crucial to getting manufacturers on board with the new technology.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Software Learning Curve 9

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. Other contractors have also begun to engage, seeing real market value.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

When tracking trends for future growth opportunities, for example, invest real money (2 to 4 percent of the sales budget is good) to develop analytical tools and teams that monitor trends such as demographic shifts, regulations, and new technologies. Make sales a team sport.

CEO 15

CEO 360-Degree Feedback Contract Manufacturing Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

This is a problem affecting tens of thousands of restaurants — an attractive target market. We partnered with a company in a Singapore that had expertise in RFID technology, and began to put together a solution involving tags on bottles, a customized storage unit that could read the tags, and a software management system.

Innovation 8

Innovation Business Model Software Contract Manufacturing 8

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. In IoT businesses, sales departments often struggle to determine how to best take a combined product and service to market. Operations. Human resources.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

A lot of business literature advocates teaming up wherever possible to open the doors to new ideas, draw on the unique strengths of others, and speed time to market. 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.

Contract Manufacturing 11

Contract Manufacturing Licensing Retail Innovation 11