Harvard Business Review
JUNE 13, 2011
After a decade of painstaking research, we have concluded that American firms are on average the best managed in the world. But while Americans are bad at football (or soccer, as it's known as locally), they are the Brazilians of Management. This has allowed us to create the first global database of management practices.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 10, 2015
More and more companies are adopting software and product development frameworks like Agile , Scrum , and Kanban — which promote quick, iterative, lean production — to deliver higher quality products, faster. What specific productivity practices have you brought home to your own family?
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 26, 2016
Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Locke of Brown University.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 8, 2013
By sheer happenstance, I had just gotten a copy of Gemba Walks , a collection of essays by James Womack , a co-author of the automotive classic The Machine That Changed The World and a pioneering importer of Toyota-inspired lean production insights and methodologies to America. Toyota was prepared to help its best suppliers scale.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2015
In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. Clearly, well-run operations and careful talent management went hand-in-glove. That would never fly in marketing, operations research, or even accounting, where academics are all over new developments.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Lean has long held a spot of great intrigue for us, so in 2016 we developed our first Lean Business Report based on survey responses from a number of Lean-practicing organizations across the globe. We compiled data to discover how Lean was transforming some of the highest-performing organizations. Driven By Data.
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