Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

But maybe the thrill of accomplishment in these pockets is diverting senior managers’ attention from another, even more critical opportunity: Digital technologies are also rapidly changing how managers can acquire and assess the information they use to develop and execute on enterprise-wide strategy.

Strategy 8

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

Over the last 250 years, waves upon waves of scientific and engineering advances have brought about an accelerating rise in living standards that even the two deadliest wars in history could not reverse. The forces of technology and management will continue to hold equal sway as the 21st century unfolds.

Management 8

Management Drucker EPS Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

While creating distinct goals and accountabilities has helped organizations divide work into specific, measurable, and predictable components, that form of scientific management has also made jobs more repetitive and boring. Perhaps in the future, technology will be a more effective management tool than human managers.

Motivation 8

Motivation Scientific Management Drucker Goal 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Here’s a simplified description of the difference between the two approaches. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Lean Manufacturing 10

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 10

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. Serendipity into Performance.

CTO 8

CTO Franchising CIO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Business education today is anachronistic – it has in no way caught up with what today’s communications technologies make possible in terms of individualized instruction and virtual learning. The scientific management emphasis on efficiency and profit at all costs can no longer take precedence over human values.

Education 10

Education Drucker Gordon Scientific Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

Frederick Winslow Taylor , regarded as the father of scientific management and one of the first management consultants in the early 1900s, believed workers were incapable of dissecting and improving their jobs. But most companies find it a cultural challenge to adopt these tools.

Tools 16

Tools Taylorism Taylor Bottom-up 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. But the world’s best organizations are calling a truce: They are learning how to turn the potentially destructive power of process and procedure to everyone’s benefit. Insight Center.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

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 14

Organization Self-aware Taylorism Taylor 14