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  • April 30, 2012
  • Article
  • Harvard Business Review (website)

Innovators, Are You Applying the Wrong Lessons from Manufacturing?

By: Don Reinertsen and Stefan Thomke
  • Format:Electronic
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Abstract

Product developers can learn much from manufacturing, but many have gone too far in applying ideas that work in manufacturing to their realm. That’s because they have ignored some fundamental differences between the two disciplines.

Keywords

Innovation; Manufacturing; Innovation and Invention; Product Development

Citation

Reinertsen, Don, and Stefan Thomke. "Innovators, Are You Applying the Wrong Lessons from Manufacturing?" Harvard Business Review (website) (April 30, 2012).

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Stefan H. Thomke

Technology and Operations Management
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