Executive Focus: Three More Keys to Growing Your Company the Old-fashioned Way

Harley-Davidson has three simple rules: 1. Know the customer; 2. Take nothing for granted; and 3. Never stop learning.

But its technology is what helps drive productivity and metric-tracking. After investing heavily in building technology systems, it turned to its supply chains to efficiently integrate its more than 600 suppliers into the manufacturing process. Technology and execution excellence have allowed Harley-Davidson to keep all of its manufacturing operations in the United States.