Innovation and Scientific Management

Key HR Trends for 2022 and Beyond

HR Digest

OCTOBER 1, 2021

More than a hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor’s Scientific Management laid the foundations for modern human resource management. Learn key HR trends to stay ahead of the curve in 2022. New HR Trends (2022).

Trends

Trends Agility Bottom-up Attrition

Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Taylor’s business process analysis gave birth to his theory of scientific management, which came to be known by modern-day businesses as, “business process management,” or BPM. A business will not survive in today’s commodity-driven, consumer-demanding economy if they do not continue to innovate.

Engineering

Engineering Process BPM Taylorism

Forget Brand Preference – Win the Brand Relevance War

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2011

“Understanding and managing relevance can be the difference between winning by becoming isolated from competitors or being mired in a difficult market environment where differentiation is hard to achieve and often short-lived.” The brand preference model dictates the objectives and strategy of the firm.

Brand

Brand Aaker Six Sigma Short-term

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. It’s an entirely different animal.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

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

Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

And so the power of incumbency, firm competencies, and market share is giving way to the ability to engage across companies and industries, innovate, individualize, and deliver. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. It’s an entirely different animal.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Think of Charles Darwin, the ultimate disruptive innovator. Critics lampoon the latest management buzzwords, labeling them as pretentious and shallow. In truth, though, management has made big strides. We have come a long way from Scientific Management and using a stopwatch to manage performance.

Blue Ocean Strategy

Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard

The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves.

Education

Education Drucker Globalization Gordon

Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

The question is: How will management advance to influence the path and force of these revolutions? But increasingly this industrial-age management mindset is becoming an impediment to our fully realizing the promise of the digital revolution’s technologies. Our ways of measuring success are reductive and backward-looking.

Management

Management Drucker EPS Short-term

It’s the Company’s Job to Help Employees Learn

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. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

Long-term

Long-term Short-term Open-book Scientific Management

Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Savor of Temple found that firms led by single CEOs engage in much more aggressive investment behavior, in terms of capex, innovation activity, R&D, and acquisitions, than companies led by married chief executives. If the chief executive is unmarried, maybe he (or she) is just trying to attract a mate.

CAPEX

CAPEX Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor

How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

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.

CTO

CTO CIO Franchising Short-term

Don't Grieve for the Great A&P

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

This was the era of scientific management, when experts like Frederick Winslow Taylor kept busy measuring factory workers' every motion with the aim of improving productivity. John Hartford applied such scientific thinking to the grocery trade.

P&L

P&L Retail Real Estate Discount

Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

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.

Organization

Organization Self-aware Taylorism Taylor

Leadership Digital

Key HR Trends for 2022 and Beyond

Fueling Business Process Management with the Automation Engine that Can!

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Forget Brand Preference – Win the Brand Relevance War

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Why Management Ideas Matter

The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All

It’s the Company’s Job to Help Employees Learn

Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

How IT Professionals Can Embrace the Serendipity Economy

Don't Grieve for the Great A&P

Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

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