Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Likewise, companies like PCH International and Dragon Innovation are now available to manage contract manufacturing and otherwise “make manufacturing feel easy” to entrepreneurs or small companies, as noted by The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Mims last year.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2011
Yet rather than license its breakthrough technology to a company such as Nikon and sell the product through traditional camera retailers, Lytro is building its own camera that it will sell through Internet channels such as Amazon and via the company's own website. Sales channels can also choke bold inventions.
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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. My favorite example of this is iRobot , the maker of the innovative Roomba vacuum. Information & technology Operations Organizational culture Product development'
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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