Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets. It’s an entirely different animal.

Strategy 11

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management.

Taylorism 12

Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. The reason for it is not in some top-management talk about serving the “whole person.”

Team 14

Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. ” Mostly looking at individual workers, he figured out that standardization and optimization of work processes could lead to astonishing improvement in productivity. The Future of Operations. It began with Frederick W. Insight Center.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

The tea shops became grocery stores, stocking canned goods, cleaning products, even cigarettes. They then filled their stores with private-label A&P products, creating the most powerful franchise in food retailing. John Hartford applied such scientific thinking to the grocery trade. Their gambit worked.

P&L 13

P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Instead of focusing on real and practical problems of relevance to the business world today, “performance” has become the dependent variable in most management research and the root of delusions (to use Phil Rosenzweig’s term ) that business scholars serve up to managers.

Education 17

Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Back in 1908, the Army learned of a clever engineer — Frederick Taylor , subsequently dubbed "the father of scientific management" — and his success in making steel manufacturing more productive in Pennsylvania. Also familiar, however, is the Watertown Arsenal's lesson in how management thinking can fail.

Taylorism 8

Taylorism Taylor Committee Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Instead of being a real practical achievement, “performance” has become the dependent variable in most management research and the root of the delusions (to use Phil Rosenzweig’s term ) that business scholars serve up to managers. Many corporations already say they cannot find the employees they need.

Education 10

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. Consider the slide deck.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8