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.

Management 16

Management Survey Class Lean Production 16

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.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. However, until recently there was little evidence on this question in the countries that dominate global markets in low-cost manufacturing.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It says that markets determine wages, and any social or political tampering just creates inefficiency. In the 1990s, a whole subfield of economics reached "virtually unanimous agreement," as a survey in the Journal of Economic Perspectives noted , that in the context of technological change, markets themselves inevitably drove U.S.

Automotive 10

Automotive Lean Production Marketing Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. automakers took decades to adopt lean production methods despite the obvious benefits from increased productivity and lower work-in-process inventory. More importantly, managers need to monitor the tool innovation roadmap.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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. While developing expertise is the most certain way to reduce entrepreneurial risk, many other strategies exist: Process — Using the right processes to deal with market uncertainty (e.g.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8