Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

As we in the United States juggle major structural and operational changes and try to secure our financial systems as revenues fall, we must keep our promise of safety and high quality to every patient, every time. Leaders in the best systems have ways to hear the good and bad outcomes of care, and they have effective systems for improvement.

Crisis 9

Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

The regular telephone system continued to work (if you could find a pay phone) but the easiest way to contact people was over the Internet. There are probably lessons here on how to redesign the cell network using the distributed principles behind the Internet, but the contrast of distributed and hierarchical systems runs deeper.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Long-term Lean Production Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

automakers took decades to adopt lean production methods despite the obvious benefits from increased productivity and lower work-in-process inventory. Even General Motors, which had a bird’s eye view of the Toyota Production System from its joint venture with Toyota at New United Motors Manufacturing Inc.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

It’s a straightforward way to get started on Lean with little upfront cost and background knowledge. It’s the perfect blend of philosophical and practical, and through the system teams adopt ideas on how to pull their work along as opposed to the work pushing its way through.

Efficiency 232

Efficiency Tools Survey Report 232

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. Leadership & Managing People Book. Add to Cart. That sounds like a lot.

Project 8

Project Management Agility White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production. system, where the first cost-cutting move is often to lay off support staff, shifting more mundane tasks such as billing and transcription onto doctors overqualified for those duties — precisely the wrong kind of task shifting.

Health Care 10

Health Care Cost Lean Production Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Danaher, a smaller but very profitable conglomerate with a diverse range of manufacturing businesses, has a very different set of strengths; it applies its distinctive lean production system to a variety of product sectors, often through companies that it acquires and then transforms. But that probably won't work.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

There's something about the culture of business that tends toward excess — in financial markets, to be sure, but also in the "market" for new ideas and management techniques.

Innovation 17

Innovation Airlines Six Sigma Lean Production 17

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