Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

When is it possible to predict a product’s success? How you answer this question may be the most important factor in how you design your product development process — and, ultimately, in whether your business succeeds or fails. Is market performance predictable for a specific product or class of products?

Black-Scholes 8

Black-Scholes Productivity Products CAPM 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

After all, it’s been done in other industries, sometimes in less time (think computers or consumer electronics). Enter Henry Ford, who revolutionized the industry with his manufacturing innovations , lowering the price of cars from $2,000 in 1908 to just $260 by 1925 — an 87% reduction! Health India Operations Productivity'

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Here is my list of the four most important: Not every industry is equally dynamic. Some industries are faster paced than others. The smart phone industry has gone through several disruptive changes in just a decade, whereas the steel industry’s technology shifts took place over a hundred-year period.

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Business Model Lean Production Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

This was the original purpose of forming corporations — to facilitate the production of products and services with the least amount of wasted time, materials, and labor. Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8

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. What does it mean for your company and industry?

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

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. And in the 1990s, our companies began to learn more from innovations at home, particularly in the area of high-performance work systems.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

As they unleash new products and services, find exciting new ways to do the stuff they've always done, or identify new markets in which to do business, these companies simply do what makes sense and what comes naturally.

Innovation 16

Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 16