All articles tagged: manufacturing

One skill distinguishes the effective CEO: the ability to make disciplined and integrated choices.

By linking customers and capabilities, companies can generate the momentum for sustainable growth.

The obstacles to adoption are significant, but driverless technology now in development could transform long-haul trucking.

A review of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, by Chris Anderson.

Corning Glass Chief Technology Officer David Morse explains how the company—through speed and customer focus in research, development, and engineering—has built a multibillion-dollar enterprise.

To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?, a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges.

Physical diversification is important, but so is spreading data about designs and operations.

Companies that align their operations to their strategy unleash superior performance.

An innovative approach to managing product portfolios—the strong-form model—can help companies stay ahead of change.

National efforts to expand international flows—of trade, capital, information, and people—can be a major leverage point for raising prosperity.

Rising labor costs will challenge China’s manufacturing base, but five factors point to opportunities for growth.

Booz & Company and strategy+business have introduced an online survey to explore the relationship between management theory, corporate identity, and high performance.

Manufacturers and retailers must factor in national sensitivities to price volatility.

A new study finds that underestimating strategic risk is the number one cause of shareholder value destruction. But it doesn’t have to be.

How to maintain creative complexity without the limitations of co-location.

The former head of Alcoa Russia teaches executives that in international business practice, ethics and competitive advantage go hand in hand.

CEOs with seats on other company boards have connections that can help them transform their own company.

How companies can battle five types of counterfeiters.

Automobiles are selling again, and executives are confident. The U.S. auto industry is positioned for a global economic recovery — if car manufacturers can avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.

A new category of competitor — low-price, medium-quality Chinese B2B upstarts — is shaking up the global competitive landscape.

A leading solar energy policy advocate explains how this dynamic, rapidly maturing industry can reach its true potential.

A review of Borrow: The American Way of Debt, by Louis Hyman.

Three key factors can delay — or accelerate — an announcement.

Scrambling to shift scant resources in order to meet deadlines can have a chaotic ripple effect.

Global drug companies are facing disruption. One powerful strategic response is to rethink their manufacturing and operations footprints.