Operations

What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.

Many organizations are finding success with IoT projects with thoughtful planning.

For PepsiCo, entering the natural beverage market meant developing new risk management practices.

Recognizing interdependencies is key to creating resilient businesses.

Instead of replacing human workers, software robots are an opportunity to augment their skills.

AI’s value for managers lies in its ability to predict equipment failures and assess human emotions.

This year’s winning article is “Accelerating Projects by Encouraging Help,” by Fabian J. Sting, Christoph H. Loch, and Dirk Stempfhuber.

When a group of industry leaders work together to find new solutions and products, who’s in charge?

Multi-sourcing can lessen the risk of supply chain disruption. But it introduces risks of its own.

Traditional hierarchies are giving way to market forms of organizing that will recast the role of management.

Professor Theodore Stank presents his research on how to bridge the divide between sales and operations.

Performance topology maps offer managers a signpost pointing toward smarter strategies.

Stanford economist Nicholas Bloom’s study of 30,000 firms identifies the practices common to well managed operations.

On May 12 at 1 pm ET, a free webinar on how to bridge the divide between sales and operations.

What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.

A new wave of data innovation offers unprecedented promise to crack the black box of effective urban deliveries.

With the advent of digitization and the App economy, the frontiers of customization are expanding further.

Putting data and analytics to work hasn’t just helped Ford more competitive — it has transformed the company’s processes.

Congress’s failure to see the ramifications of its shifting ethanol policies is wreaking havoc on energy supply chains.

Preparing for the platform-business revolution; how to optimize distribution networks with big data.