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. Why are older incumbent firms slow to adopt new technologies even when the economic or strategic benefits are clear?

Technology 8

Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. Ford shifted the auto industry from craft to mass production, and the Japanese later took it a step further to lean production. The same can be said of other procedures that might lend themselves to mass or lean production.

Health Care 9

Health Care Cost Lean Production Offshoring 9

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. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

Lean Manufacturing 10

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The organizational and operational benefits of targeted testing are not. "To do all of them at one time without testing the first one — you have to question what kind of strategy that is.". The strategic merits of bike sharing and department store "boutiquification" may be debatable. These pathologies are nothing new.

Leadership 14

Leadership Innovation Lean Production Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Every successful conglomerate we know of — GE, Honeywell, Tata and United Technologies Corporation among them — has prospered by doing two things. There is no universal answer. True success comes to those that create a unique system of capabilities that fits the way they have decided to compete.

Welch 9

Welch Diversity Hedge Chemicals 9

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. A big reason is technological complexity. bound panels to Malaysia. This made the U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8