Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

摘要: Manufacturing's central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years--even decades--in response to intensifying competition, companies decided outsource their manufacturing operations order reduce costs. But we are now seeing alarming long-term effect of those choices: many cases, once capabilities go away, so does much ability innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano Willy Shih show disastrous consequences years poor sourcing underinvestment capabilities. They reveal how today's undervalued often hold seeds tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that must reinvest product process development US industrial sector. Only by reviving this "industrial commons" can world's largest economy build expertise muscle regain competitive advantage. America needs a renaissance--for restoring itself, for as whole. This will require major changes. company-level choices key sustained success industries economies, provide business leaders with framework understanding links between enable them make better outsourcing decisions. also detail government change its support basic applied scientific research, promote collaboration academia. executives, policymakers, academics, innovators alike, Prosperity provides clearest most compelling account yet American lost edge--and get back.