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. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2012
Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. Production lines don't look much the way they used to. The United States is at a dangerous juncture: Manufacturing jobs are on the rise, but the growth is still fragile. back to where it was a couple of years ago.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 2, 2012
CEOs of these firms can emulate four best practices initiated by Carlos Ghosn at Renault-Nissan: 1) Create " good enough " products that deliver high value for money: Over-engineering products is no longer sustainable — both for economical and environmental reasons. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges. lakhs ($6,600).
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
With the pace of digital “always on” streaming devices and technology innovation accelerating, one might think technology would continue to pose a challenge for businesses. An upstream energy equipment manufacturer, for example, used this approach to better understand the amount of time production equipment sat idling.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 13, 2013
And for many people, the ability to do that is increasingly under assault , as daily rhythms are disrupted by the changing nature of work and always-on technology. Getting sufficient sleep is a need that every human on the planet shares. You''d have the advantage of a solid and accumulating knowledge base regarding what works.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 8, 2010
In turn — and here's the crucial part — India's likely to be able to create the future: stuff that's globally hypercompetitive, because it's lean, clean, and green, igniting a new basis for export-led growth, and, more than likely, offering better sources of advantage. Now let's go back to the much-maligned WikiLeaks.
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