All articles tagged: manufacturing

The office-furniture design leader is betting on innovation as it continues to push the envelope of management practice.

Providing new goods and services to “bottom of the pyramid” customers requires a radical rethinking of product development.

A review of Beating the Commodity Trap, by Richard A. D’Aveni.

Despite improvements in the global economy, chemicals, retail banking, consumer packaged goods, engineered products and services, oil and gas, and technology still need to transform.

Corning Inc.’s process for developing inventive products actually works, a claim that few companies can make.

Nell Minow, coauthor of Corporate Governance, introduces a lesson in corporate transparency from The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win, by Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen.

For global companies, ignoring China is not an option. But they must adapt their strategies to the country’s changing markets, increased competition, and shifting government priorities.

A fine-tuned supply chain is more than the sum of its parts. Ideally, each link improves the next.

The history of investment and technology suggests that economic recovery is closer than you think, with a new silicon-based global elite at the helm.

William Fung, the head of an old and very large Hong Kong trading company, on making and selling products in a vastly altered global landscape.

Which manufacturing operations should return to the United States?

Five steps to “differentiated” sustainability for a full embrace of environmentalism.

With industries contracting and jobless rates among manufacturing workers skyrocketing, community colleges have become the new home of retraining programs.

Companies should deliberately disrupt the normal flow of work at multiple levels, because it can lead to breakthroughs for the organization.

Though often missing, a formal operations strategy can guide the crucial decisions that build competitive advantage.

Economic recovery in China, India, and elsewhere in the region could be the strongest source of sustained global growth for years to come.

This bedrock U.S. manufacturing sector is facing consolidation, further cutbacks, and renewal.

Booz & Company’s annual study of the world’s biggest corporate R&D spenders finds that most companies have stuck with their innovation programs despite the recession — and many are boosting spending to compete more effectively in the upturn.

To reduce expenses for the long term and lead the way to recovery, start by taking a strategic view of your capabilities.

A review of Why GM Matters, by William J. Holstein.

The Internet, technology, and globalization have changed this age-old game for good.

Companies like IBM and P&G have prospered by opening their borders, but there are cautionary lessons from the quality movement of the 1980s.

Once associated with pirated goods, China’s shan zhai companies have become competitive players, even in mature industries.

By embracing the principles of lean manufacturing, Wipro Technologies learned how best to complete software projects.

The CEO of Applied Materials offers a road map for the adoption of solar energy technologies in the United States.