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. Does Apple similarly invest in its suppliers?

Innovation 9

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

But across Japan, anger is growing at the government and TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power). The situation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant remains critical. 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.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Long-term Lean Production Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Lean Product Development and Customer Development processes) decreases the chance of a startup’s failure. Help people out — Looking for opportunities to help other people can help build connections that can prove useful later on, whatever the outcome of your company (Adam Grant describes the power of generosity in Give and Take ).

Career 9

Career Company IPO Christensen 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Look at the raw muscle and crude machinery, so vividly depicted by Diego Rivera in the Detroit Institute of Art, that powered Ford's River Rouge plant in the 1920s. It is so contrary to workaday experience that beginning economics students find it tough to grasp. Of course not. They had no idea how to.

Automotive 12

Automotive Lean Production Marketing Crisis 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production. Moreover, when hospitals consolidate, the motive often is to increase market power vis-à-vis insurance companies, rather than to lower costs by creating a hub-and-spoke structure. Task Shifting. Innovation has flourished in the U.S.

Health Care 12

Health Care Cost Lean Production Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

But it stands together as a relatively coherent entity, through the power and universal applicability of the things it does well. GE has its strengths in the management of large-scale industries. Of course, the very diversity that defines a conglomerate makes it hard to enforce the discipline of coherence.

Welch 9

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 9

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. If you were to walk through some of those foreign factories, you would get a very different picture.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8