LSA Global
APRIL 18, 2017
Borders began as a standard bricks-and-mortar bookstore in Michigan in 1971 and grew to employ almost 20,000 workers before it ceased operations in 2011. But many would say that Kodak failed because they didn’t foresee how quickly and completely digital cameras would take over the industry that depended on film sales.
Harvard Business
MAY 16, 2016
The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.
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Harvard Business
AUGUST 23, 2018
Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations. Scalers iteratively experiment and tweak new ideas until they find product-market fit using methods like agile or lean.
Harvard Business
MAY 11, 2018
Clearly, there has to be a better way to paint a car, but to make that operation more efficient and take cost out will require the development of a new process. Roger Smith’s dream of a lights-out factory has only been realized in a very few operations—robots building robots, for instance—and not in the automotive world.
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