Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change. In 2009, Grainger's senior management team decided to reflect on their history with improvement initiatives before deploying a Lean-based continuous improvement system.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team LEAN Software Review Technical Review 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

In 2002 Norman Bodek , "the godfather of Lean ," came to Technicolor's Michigan facility to teach its leaders about how to implement a front-line suggestion process. Some of the managers underscored the importance of the ideas to surviving the video technology change from VHS to DVD and losing work to other plants. Their answer?

How To 15

How To LEAN Technical Review Engagement 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. So we either offer a compelling design — based on insight into how our customers' lifestyles are changing — or we go out of business. Everyone in the industry felt the impact. If I come in second, I lose.

Underperforming Technical Team 15

Underperforming Technical Team Culture LEAN Design 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

The telecom industry has changed, and the industry dynamics will continue to shift under the pressure from social media and the power of the consumer. In a rapidly changing industry ecosystem, heavy investments in hard infrastructure can burden balance sheets and limit flexibility. But the solutions may not be housed on their own soil.

Competition 12

Competition Technical Review LEAN Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

.” To address this issue, nurses at ThedaCare employed lean techniques to create a patient-centered, team-based model that’s producing solid results. It has been a pioneer in applying lean methodology in health care in order to tackle quality and cost issues. Another lean tenet is assessment before action.

Collaboration 10

Collaboration Development Team Review LEAN Guidelines 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

The disruption to operations and supply chains is real and costly, and all signs point to increasing threats as weather gets more volatile, driven in large part by climate change. A tree branch hit a power line in Ohio in August 2003, causing cascading failures across a highly connected U.S. Modular and distributed design.

Strategy 10

Strategy Strategy LEAN Disruption 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Hospitals such as Virginia Mason and ThedaCare adopted process improvement systems from manufacturing ("Lean" and the "Toyota Production System") to deliver increased consistency, reliability, and quality. Many hospitals began pursuing the "triple aim": better patient experiences, consistent quality, and lower costs.

Meeting 9

Meeting LEAN System Project 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

We’ve seen this in both bestselling business memoirs like Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and in previous studies like the research-based Women Don’t Ask. Hence it could be that negotiating behavior through the years has begun to change. The crucial question remains its cause.

Survey 8

Survey Study Data LEAN 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

A series of papers (sample title: “ The Fat-Cat Effect, the Puppy-Dog Ploy, and the Lean and Hungry Look ”) by Tirole and game theorist Drew Fudenberg, who is now at Harvard, seemed to promise firm answers to timeless business questions like, “Should we enter this industry?” For Ghemawat, what followed was a bit of disappointment.

Strategy 8

Strategy Strategy Industry Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% Attention shifted : The effort to install process owners started out with top management support and attention, but then more urgent issues arose, or senior leadership changed.

Competition 15

Competition LEAN System Management 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

has changed in important ways over the last 50 years, some subtle and some not subtle at all. And these changes have affected how businesses talk about themselves, how they release information, and even the strategic decisions they make. The 1980s and 1990s brought transformational change to the media landscape.

Change 8

Change Company LEAN Study 8