Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 28, 2016

It also grew when manufacturers worldwide began to adopt the Lean Manufacturing practices of Japanese companies, replacing the overspecialized, assembly-line mentality with teams that developed broader knowledge and skills and had greater autonomy. to decentralize decision making at General Motors Corporation.

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Decentralization Lean Manufacturing Directory Learning-by-Doing 240

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Prahalad , the brilliant management guru. LG has focused on Brazil’s BoP based on Prahalad’s 4As framework while managing to navigate Brazil’s complex corporate and political network – an intricate “Keiretsu”. LG has devised payment subscription plans that makes its products affordable. To quote the late, great C.K.

Competitive Advantage 154

Competitive Advantage Prahalad Blue Ocean Strategy Glocalization 154

Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. A forward-thinking plant manager modified the Deming Philosophy to create something called “The Livonia Philosophy.”. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net.

Kaizen 28

Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Organizational Development Book. Take Tom, a website developer whom I met on a consulting assignment at an accounting firm. “He was more concerned with protocol than personal development. They then experimented with transforming their own production line using the new techniques. We feel more alive. Adapted from.

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Motivation Lean Manufacturing Management System 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

Increasing productivity — making more with less — is at the core of any company or any economy's economic progress. From a societal view, productivity drives higher living standards and increases shared resources — for example, providing a government with more resources to invest back into its citizens.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Lean Manufacturing Technology 15

Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

That is the wrong sequence, the right sequence is quality and then time and then cost and then new products. Brian Joiner also expressed this idea well : Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between “cost cutting” and “eliminating the causes of costs.”.

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Deming System Quality Cost 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

CEOs are increasingly adding the CDO role to their management teams to tackle the big business issues that come with data. The chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) of a consumer product company is struggling to manage end-user consent data. Enter the chief data officer, or CDO. Here’s an example.

Company 8

Company Lean Manufacturing Compliance Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects. What are their secrets?

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Six Sigma Process Tips Lean Manufacturing 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

As a manufacturing company grows, it benefits from economies of scale and can focus teams of people on extracting the maximum productivity from its plant operations. Their growth typically results in more complexity — not productivity benefits — and complexity inevitably kills growth.

Company 16

Company Customer Loyalty Guidelines Lean Manufacturing 16