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. Disclosure: He’s taught and coached many teams at HBR on how to use these same practices.)

Project 8

Project Management Agility White Paper 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

Over the past decade, a team from Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, McKinsey & Company, and Stanford has systematically surveyed global management. in some of the other areas of management we examined, such as careful monitoring, lean production, and sensible targets. But the U.S. should not be complacent.

Management 16

Management Survey Class Lean Production 16

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Having utterly failed, GM undertook a medium-tech, $200 million joint venture with Toyota to implement "lean-production" methods relying more heavily on workers' skills — and boosted productivity 40%. Everyone from the executive suite to the shop floor contributes as a team to production.

Automotive 10

Automotive Lean Production Marketing Crisis 10

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.”. We need to pay attention to our systems for building effective teams to execute on work and improve.

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. Other hospitals employ team-based compensation, which generates peer pressure to avoid unnecessary tests and procedures. At a time when health care costs in the United States threaten to bankrupt the federal government, U.S.

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. There is no universal answer.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

Companies are touting chief innovation officers, innovation teams, innovations strategies, and even innovation days," the hard-hitting piece noted. 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