Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

After all, it’s been done in other industries, sometimes in less time (think computers or consumer electronics). Enter Henry Ford, who revolutionized the industry with his manufacturing innovations , lowering the price of cars from $2,000 in 1908 to just $260 by 1925 — an 87% reduction! But even with all the constraints, cutting U.S.

Health Care 9

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

This was the original purpose of forming corporations — to facilitate the production of products and services with the least amount of wasted time, materials, and labor. Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. A few decades ago, U.S.

Lean Production 8

Lean Production Operations Health Care Talent Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Technologies like 3-D printing, robotics, advanced motion controls, and new methods for continuous manufacturing hold great potential for improving how companies design and build products to better serve customers. The Future of Operations. Organizations develop processes through repeated problem solving. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

We have developed a tool to measure management practices across operational management, monitoring, targets, and people management. A key takeaway is that individual companies are not trapped by the national environments in which they operate — there are top performers in all countries surveyed. does not guarantee success.

Management 17

Management Survey Class Lean Production 17

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

2 in its market; he also insisted that every business provide value no competitor could match, and that they all should be able to gain leverage from GE's distinctive strength in complex, engineering-intensive industrial enterprises — or they wouldn't fit. GE has its strengths in the management of large-scale industries.

Welch 8

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

They ignore the realities of how global manufacturing now works — how it has evolved into a complex network of interlinked factories that together build many of the products sold today. Generally, what we see is the country where the final assembly of a product took place. automobile industry over the last five years.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8