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Can Lean Manufacturing Put an End to Sweatshops?

Harvard Business Review

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. It involves replacing traditional mass manufacturing with “lean manufacturing” principles. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Insight Center.

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B-Schools Aren’t Bothering to Produce HR Experts

Harvard Business Review

companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. A few decades ago, U.S.

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Why American Management Rules the World

Harvard Business Review

We have developed a tool to measure management practices across operational management, monitoring, targets, and people management. They make more money, grow faster, have far higher stock market values, and survive for longer. has more flexible labor markets. For details see our previous HBR blog post.). But the U.S.

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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production. Some companies brought together Six Sigma and lean production into “Lean Six Sigma” as a way of competing with both lower costs and higher quality.

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Founding a Company Doesn’t Have to be a Big Career Risk

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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India’s Secret to Low-Cost Health Care

Harvard Business Review

costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production. It also creates specialists at the hubs who, while performing high volumes of focused procedures, develop the skills that will improve quality. Today, the U.S. By contrast, hospitals in the U.S.