Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 21, 2018
As technology transforms our economy, one trend is getting more and more attention: the prospect that it will increasingly automate the work that we human beings do. While it’s true that technology is taking over routine tasks from many workers, it is also reshaping many supply and demand trends that drive our global markets.
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.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
Even in this contentious election year, all sides agree on one issue: The loss of American manufacturing jobs over the past decade has been a disaster for the U.S. It would be unrealistic to imagine a return to low-value-add, low-skill, low-wage production in the commodity industries that employed millions of Americans a century ago.
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. New skills may be required, new distribution options may emerge, and field conflict (direct and channel) is not uncommon. Operations. and design and user experience.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 21, 2015
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. The integration between the tags, the storage unit, and the software was technologically tough to pull off.
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