The success of projects involving several stakeholders can depend on achieving the right balance of internal and external contributions.![]()
So Happy Together: The Right Kind of Collaboration
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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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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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How to Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs
If U.S. manufacturers were willing and able to fill the many open positions, employment in that sector would come back naturally.![]()
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The Auto Industry's Real Challenge
As automakers pour millions into winning the autonomous vehicle race, they run the risk of ignoring the more imminent threats that could sink them before the technology becomes pervasive.![]()
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The Demands on Auto Suppliers
The vast and crucial auto suppliers industry faces several competitive challenges -- rapid growth in emerging markets, pressure to meet clean air and mileage regulations, and the impact of technology and connectivity. Amid intense competition, suppliers will have to learn how to differentiate themselves and their products to preserve a profitable place in the automobile ecosystem and maintain high entry barriers for rivals. To do so, they must reexamine the profit potential of their products and portfolios, and focus on the innovation potential inherent in each of them.![]()
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Displaced by Automation in Shanghai
The trend of manufacturers replacing human labor with machines isn't restricted to the West.![]()
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A Silver Lining in Gray Markets? It's Complicated.
Although manufacturers can derive some short-term benefits from unauthorized retailers, outright bootlegging is harmful to profits and reputation.![]()
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Getting the Leadership Basics Right
Whether they're selling concrete or chocolate, CEOs can still look to five steadfast rules.![]()
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You May Be Part of a Global Supply Chain
All sorts of U.S. industries, including education and car manufacturing, sell their products and services to international customers.![]()
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Two Simple Concepts for Better Leadership
Learn to operate from two observation points simultaneously and to outsource at home.![]()
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A Strategist's Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is creating new approaches to business models, operations, and the deployment of people that look likely to fundamentally affect a wide range of sectors. After all, if AI can transform an earthbound industry like agriculture through better understanding of soil and climate factors, what can't it touch? And how long will it be before your company is affected?![]()
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Why the Construction Industry May Be Robot-Proof
There is something unique about building houses that inherently eschews efficiency and automation.![]()
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