Deming Institute

JUNE 11, 2018

In America, the use of metrics can be tracked from Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management (1911), the New Public Administration of the 1980s and the 2001 No Child Left Behind program and beyond. Under McNamara, the armed forces sought to meet productivity targets of bombing sorties, shells fired and body counts.

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Metrics Deming Scientific Management Proposal 31

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

Hostile Takeover 50

Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

A consumer decides to buy an established product category or subcategory, such as SUVs. Not only are these brands phenomenally successful – they are examples of product categories where competitors are nearly irrelevant, says branding guru David Aaker. A brand, perhaps Cadillac, is then selected. Whole Foods Market.

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Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term 56

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.

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Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. In addition to improved product quality and delivery times, the lean approach has been linked to improved terms of employment. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations.

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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

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

JULY 18, 2016

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. We suggest starting with three things: Select for it.

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Long-term Short-term Open-book Scientific Management 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.”

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Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 14

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.

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Taylorism Taylor Committee Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In the 1930s, Elton Mayo ignited the Human Relations movement by documenting the productivity boost that came with treating assembly line workers with dignity and care. The movement challenged the influence of Fredrick Taylor’s scientific management, which had reduced workers to unwieldy cogs in efficiency-seeking industrial machines.

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Drucker Mayo Technology Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values. Our future corporate leaders need to have the thinking skills necessary to appreciate the complexities of what it means to be human, as well as business’s role in sustaining an inhabitable, healthy planet.

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Education Drucker Globalization Trends 17

LDRLB

MAY 12, 2010

Elton Mayo, a scientific management researcher, wanted to examine the impact of work conditions on employee productivity. Mayo first examined the physical and environmental influences of the workplace and eventually moved into the psychological aspects and their impact on employee motivation as it applies to productivity.

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Hawthorne Effect Mayo Scientific Management Morale 79

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values. Our future corporate leaders need to have the thinking skills necessary to appreciate the complexities of what it means to be human, as well as business’s role in sustaining an inhabitable, healthy planet.

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Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 10

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. It began with Frederick W. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

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.

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CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® framework was the product of over 50 years of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. Scientific Management An industrial engineer in the early 1900s, Frederick Winslow Taylor was obsessed with productivity enhancement. Was the manager effective?

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Situational Leadership Hersey Blanchard Argyris 52

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.

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P&L Retail Real Estate Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

The same kinds of dynamics probably play out among lower-level managers too, Roussanov says in this Wharton video. What we''ve really done is internalize Frederick Winslow Taylor''s century-old concept of scientific management for factory workers. We have become our own productivity police.

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CAPEX Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Below are five pointers to frame and guide the conversation for technology geeks and practitioners to champion the use of auto-analytics in their businesses: Auto-analytics can be understood within the tradition of scientific management. Management science has its roots in experimentation and productivity improvement.

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Organization Self-aware Taylorism Taylor 12