In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih (authors of the award-winning Harvard Business Review article Restoring American Competitiveness) vividly show the disastrous consequences of years of bad outsourcing decisions and underinvestment in manufacturing capability. They go on to reveal how todays undervalued manufacturing operations often hold the seeds of tomorrows innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in the collective operational capabilities that underpin new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. It is only by reviving this industrial commons that we can build both the expertise and the manufacturing muscle to produce tomorrows hot productsfrom electronics and appliances to solar panels and next-generation batteriesto regain competitive advantage.
