All companies say they want to establish a safer and more sustainable workplace, but they often struggle to turn those intentions into reality. For AkzoNobel, the solution began by standardizing processes across all of its facilities.![]()
Zero Injuries, Waste, and Harm
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America's Manufacturing Advantage
A new wave of software innovation is about to transform industry--and give the United States the chance for a lasting edge.![]()
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Warfare, Software, and Industrial Design
Sprint and scrum, a design approach favored by the software industry, was behind many of the incredible innovations made by industrial and defense companies in the mid-20th century. It can help today's industrial manufacturers cast off their sluggish image and make rapid changes in product cost or design.![]()
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A Historical Lesson for Supply Firms
To keep growing amid volatility, companies should remain adaptable in their approach to supply chain management.![]()
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Lessons in Product Design from Modern Warfare--in Pictures
This slideshow is part of the article " Warfare, Software, and Industrial Design ."![]()
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What Mom-and-Pop Stores Can Teach Grocery Chains
Because online players can provide more variety than a physical grocery store, traditional supermarkets that cling to the long-dominant self-service model will struggle to stay competitive. They should rethink the customer's grocery shopping experience, as well as the supply chain and store operations that support it.![]()
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A Sprinter's Guide to Project Management
Jeff Sutherland, codeveloper of scrum, explains how to raise the success rate of your company's projects using the software development method.![]()
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Demand Growing for Supply Chain Execs
Large companies are recruiting an increasing number of top executives with experience in supply chain management. But the financial payoff remains elusive.![]()
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The Decline of the COO
The chief operating officer has traditionally been the number two person in many companies -- the senior executive charged with overseeing all of the company's business operations. But COOs are becoming an endangered species, made obsolete by a more efficient CEO.![]()
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So Happy Together: The Right Kind of Collaboration
The success of projects involving several stakeholders can depend on achieving the right balance of internal and external contributions.![]()
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The Future of Management Is Teal
Organizations are ready for their next evolutionary step: a step toward self-management, wholeness, and a new sense of purpose. Companies are developing a new form of organization -- a soulful workplace where talents are nurtured and the deepest aspirations are honored.![]()
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The True Lesson of an Airbag Disaster
Honda's practice of learning from errors had to change when failure became deadly.![]()
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Finding the "Herbie" in Your Change Initiative
Eli Goldratt's theory of constraints can help leaders better pace and sequence change management programs.![]()
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Weak Links in the Chain
Flexible, adaptive supply chain management is an overlooked but vital component of a company's overall innovation strategy.![]()
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Danaher's Instruments of Change
This diversified but highly focused company grows through intensive attention to its capabilities in acquisition, customer-facing innovation, leadership development, and continuous improvement of everything it does. Although it's sometimes compared to a private equity firm, Danaher is different -- it buys and builds companies for the long-term, not for rapid fix-up and sale. In this roundtable series of interviews, a group of Danaher top executives explain how their practices and culture evolved. (THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS LICENSED IMAGES)![]()
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Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser on the Next Industrial Revolution
The CEO of Siemens describes how an industrial powerhouse founded in the 19th century is using software, sensors, and savvy to create a digital manufacturer that can thrive in the 21st century.![]()
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The Story of UTCʼs Success-In Pictures
How United Technologies Corporation--owner of Pratt & Whitney, Otis Elevator, and a wide range of other businesses--became one of the major corporate success stories of the past two decades.![]()
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A Strategist's Guide to Industry 4.0
Major innovations in digital technology, all coming to maturity right now, are transforming the energy and manufacturing industries. Robotics, 3D printing, data analytics, the Internet of Things, and digital fabrication are often thought of separately. But when they are joined together in a single value chain, they integrate the physical and virtual worlds. Companies that embrace Industry 4.0 will be able to track everything they produce from cradle to grave, tailor products in real time to the specifications of the purchaser, and develop new ways of tackling problems such as climate change and aging populations.![]()
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Is U.S. Manufacturing Really in Decline?
Although fewer people are working at factories in America, output has been rising.![]()
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What Whole Foods Is Learning by Trading Down
The high-end grocery company is using its newly formed 365 chain to experiment with new business practices.![]()
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