Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Today’s C-level executives understand peripheral management of their critical applications, data systems, and shared services is not an effective, efficient, secure, or financially-feasible effort and require more robust, permanent solutions for assimilation into their BPM.

Engineering 50

Engineering Process BPM Taylor 50

Deming Institute

JULY 16, 2018

Like Dr. Deming, Professor Rose is not afraid to move between academia and the world outside and seek a broader systems view. Frederick Taylor’s (1856-1915) Scientific Management depicted factory workers as uncouth lumps of clay to be shaped to fit industrial ends.

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Books Deming Review Scientific Management 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning. Is Apple suddenly a healthcare company?

Strategy 15

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

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. But, for too many companies saddled with approaches to management that are outdated and ineffectual, it presents a seemingly insurmountable challenge.

Taylorism 15

Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

However, as every trend comes to lose sight of its need for renewal, we are now stuck with an academic system in which business schools are run as if they are deaf, blind, and dumb to a completely new emerging world. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

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Education Drucker Globalization Gordon 21

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. While the production system requires more worker skill and effort, employers have incentives to retain these valuable workers through improved working conditions.

Lean Manufacturing 13

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 13

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 15

Organization Self-aware Taylor Taylorism 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The combination of the tenure system and the publish-or-perish dictum is crowding our schools with scholars who perform respectable research published in so called A-level journals, but generally of limited value to business.

Education 14

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Not only can patients gather more comprehensive “home-based” data with Apple’s HealthKit platform , but also potentially stream that data (with permission) to their doctors via Epic’s systems. This isn’t a retread of scientific management , nor is it an updated take on scenario planning.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

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. Courage and Patience.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

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.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. Then came the new frontline: enterprise-wide computer systems. Over the last 25 years, organizations’ processes have become increasingly tied to complex IT systems that specify each step of a task. How did the war start, and why is it important?

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Back in 1908, the Army learned of a clever engineer — Frederick Taylor , subsequently dubbed "the father of scientific management" — and his success in making steel manufacturing more productive in Pennsylvania. But it marked a decisive shift in the public perception of Taylor's system.

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Taylor Taylorism Committee Engineering 9