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 15

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 15

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

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Develop deep expertise — your best risk-mitigation strategy . 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.

Career 10

Career Company IPO Christensen 10

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. Clearly, well-run operations and careful talent management went hand-in-glove. That would never fly in marketing, operations research, or even accounting, where academics are all over new developments.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

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. As many economists have argued, the burden of proof is on the company's management to show that these diverse businesses are better off together than they would be independently.

Welch 10

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

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. Availability and challenges of managing labor. And it’s an issue in the United States as well.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8