Few schools of thought have had more impact on how I run a business than dynamic work design. The concept was pioneered by friends of mine at MIT, Donald Kieffer and Nelson Repenning. The two spent ...

On a cloudy day in mid-July, a crew of technicians carried a shiny metal orb, about the size and weight of a kid’s bowling ball, under a 110-kilovolt transmission line running near Hamburg, Germany.

For 2017, the Audi A4 sedan gets a new clamshell hood design featuring a shoulder line extending from the corner of the headlight to the edge of the taillight; a more-defined horizontal grille; strong ...

Lean manufacturing seeks to make clear what adds value by reducing everything else. Lean is clearly not a fixed-point objective; accelerating global market competition demands operational flexibility ...