The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Management theorists have long argued the merits of different kinds of organizational structure, with the latest fashion being for flat structures that advocates argue allow organizations to make faster decisions and respond to the rapid pace of change seen in the world today. Systems intelligence.

Organization 113

Organization System Fashion Learning Organization 113

The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

System 52

System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In a career change away from engineering R&D for gas turbine engines, my interest was to develop an expertise in the tools and techniques of continuous quality improvement. We both view Toyota’s highly prized resource management results through a lens of interdependencies that is guided by W.

Six Sigma 37

Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Just two months ago, we announced the Management 2.0 Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. What these stories and hacks offer are well-developed, highly-detailed, and battle-tested roadmaps for making that assumption a reality. Entangled Talents: a 21st-century Social Learning System.

Management 11

Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. We can have engineering work more closely with production. manufacturing, management had to take a big swing.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

Management 9

Management Balanced Scorecard NPV Article 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

And finally, large organizations are emotionally insipid. Managers know how to command obedience and diligence, but most are clueless when it comes to galvanizing the sort of volunteerism that animates life on the social web. Large organizations squander more human capability than they use.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Business Incubator Incubator Innovation 8