CEO Blog

JUNE 19, 2011

Liker, author of esteemed lean production manual The Toyota Way decided he should again focus on Toyota’s cultural efforts, but this time with a bit of a twist. Methods of improvement during the recession were not limited to Toyota staff and production facilities, but extend to suppliers as well. Co-authors Jeffrey K.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

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. Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy .

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Career Company IPO Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

automakers took decades to adopt lean production methods despite the obvious benefits from increased productivity and lower work-in-process inventory. Even General Motors, which had a bird’s eye view of the Toyota Production System from its joint venture with Toyota at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

While in Kansai, Japan's second economic engine based around the city of Osaka, I found things operating pretty much as normal. Japan is famous for its lean production systems and efficient supply chains. But these have proven to be very brittle in the face of this disaster.

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Supply Chain Long-term Lean Production Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. That was the point of his famous requirement that every business had to be No.

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Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Generally, what we see is the country where the final assembly of a product took place. Almost every sophisticated manufacturer uses some kind of lean production system that pulls raw materials in from a warehouse. While production is approaching all-time highs, the percentage of parts that come from U.S. Far from it.

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