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Harvard Business
MAY 26, 2016
Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Operations in a Connected World.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?
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Harvard Business
JULY 8, 2016
The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.
Kates Kesler
DECEMBER 16, 2013
This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. Business leaders have long been intrigued with the idea of reducing hierarchy, putting greater emphasis on networks, and empowering decisions closer to the market. The global/local tension.
Harvard Business
JULY 30, 2018
The responses , from 270 corporate leaders in strategy, innovation, and research and development roles, were illuminating. The culture at large companies is typically built on a foundation of operational excellence and predictable growth. To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.)
Kates Kesler
JANUARY 25, 2013
Organizational simplicity is great when the business is simple – when there are only a few products, serving a few markets (in one or two countries). Take Nike, marketing a core brand across a number of consumer categories with hundreds of footwear and apparel products all over the world. Nike’s money-making matrix.
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 7, 2017
Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.
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