Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

In the lean-manufacturing context, in contrast, assembly line workers learn to execute a variety of production tasks, take responsibility for product quality, and are encouraged to find ways to improve the production process. Workers tend to earn more and report higher engagement with their jobs.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Moreover, this isn’t always about coming up with new products and services. We tend to think of a shiny new product offering when we picture “strategic innovation,” but that’s too limited. And Toyota changed the auto industry forever with a systemic process innovation (the lean production system).

Bottom-up 8

Bottom-up Business Model Lean Production Innovation 8

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Lean reflects the natural evolution of business and knowledge-based work: data-driven, yet practicing mindfulness in everyday production. At the team level, Lean prioritizes helping members pinpoint inefficiencies and work together to optimize results for the customer. Driven By Data.

Efficiency 232

Efficiency Tools Survey Report 232

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. A few decades ago, U.S. companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. Let me explain.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

The market rewards each of us according to our actual productive value, he insisted : "To each agent a distinguishable share in production, and to each a corresponding reward &38212; such is the natural law of distribution." Does production really work this way? Clark set out to disprove this indictment.

Automotive 10

Automotive Lean Production Marketing Crisis 10

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 .

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8

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. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

More and more companies are adopting software and product development frameworks like Agile , Scrum , and Kanban — which promote quick, iterative, lean production — to deliver higher quality products, faster. What specific productivity practices have you brought home to your own family?

Project 8

Project Management Agility White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Just as the "quality" and "lean production" movements of the 80s and 90s required quality to be designed — rather than inspected — in, innovators have got to demonstrate greater ingenuity and integrity around how they integrate real-world testing into their projects and processes. These pathologies are nothing new.

Leadership 13

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

in some of the other areas of management we examined, such as careful monitoring, lean production, and sensible targets. As you can imagine, this does not lead to a feeling of mutual support between management and workers. But the U.S. should not be complacent. Other countries equal or better the U.S.

Management 16

Management Survey Class Lean Production 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Japan is famous for its lean production systems and efficient supply chains. Large companies such as Toyota and Sony were forced to halt production not because of damage to their own factories, which were quickly checked and ready to go back online, but because they were dependent on a small number of parts from suppliers in Tohoku.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Long-term Lean Production Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

They created and maintained a close connection to frontline staff — what Jim Womack , the expert in lean production and thinking, calls “going to gemba ” — Japanese for “the actual place.”. At Mid Staffs, instead of this essential connection, there was a yawning gap.

Crisis 9

Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production. By focusing only on the most technical part of an operation, doctors at these hospitals have become incredibly productive — for example, performing up to five or six surgeries per hour instead of the one to two surgeries common in the U.S.

Health Care 10

Health Care Cost Lean Production Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

A conglomerate, by definition, is a large corporation with diversified product lines , owned and run by the same management. You might be tempted to start by force-fitting your biggest and best capabilities to all your products and services. But that probably won't work.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 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 17

Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

They ignore the realities of how global manufacturing now works — how it has evolved into a complex network of interlinked factories that together build many of the products sold today. Generally, what we see is the country where the final assembly of a product took place. A big reason is technological complexity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8