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 26, 2016

Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. However, until recently there was little evidence on this question in the countries that dominate global markets in low-cost manufacturing. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

Lean Manufacturing 10

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Many companies still compete this way and there continue to be successors to Taylorism, including business process reengineering and lean production. Some companies brought together Six Sigma and lean production into “Lean Six Sigma” as a way of competing with both lower costs and higher quality.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production. Moreover, when hospitals consolidate, the motive often is to increase market power vis-à-vis insurance companies, rather than to lower costs by creating a hub-and-spoke structure. Today, the U.S. Task Shifting. In too much of the U.S.,

Health Care 10

Health Care Cost Lean Production Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

We have developed a tool to measure management practices across operational management, monitoring, targets, and people management. They make more money, grow faster, have far higher stock market values, and survive for longer. markets generate the type of rapid management evolution that allows only the best-managed firms to survive.

Management 17

Management Survey Class Lean Production 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. The Future of Operations. automakers took decades to adopt lean production methods despite the obvious benefits from increased productivity and lower work-in-process inventory. Sometimes they are a fit, but often they are not.

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The most important way to mitigate risk is to become excellent at either engineering, product, selling, or operations and management. While developing expertise is the most certain way to reduce entrepreneurial risk, many other strategies exist: Process — Using the right processes to deal with market uncertainty (e.g.

Career 8

Career Company IPO Christensen 8