Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

If you want to understand the future of Tesla, and Elon Musk’s role in it — something many are keen to do, given the spate of negative headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th century. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S.

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. A business model defines how your organization creates and captures value. An operating model defines how your organization delivers the value promised by its business model.

Company 8

Company Operations Human Capital Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Their business models benefit from internet connectivity and they enjoy tremendous network effects. An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners.

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Robots have been doing tough jobs for over half a century, mostly in the automotive sector, but they’ve probably had a bigger impact in Hollywood movies than on factory floors. Some of them are no longer bolted to the factory floor, and they’re moving beyond automotive manufacturing. That’s about to change.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Engineering System 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Platforms of engagement, based on human experiences, are the new loci of value creation and therefore the new engines of capitalism. There are many examples of crowdsourcing, open innovation, and new business models that tap into the creativity of people from anywhere in the world today.

CEO 10

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

If the answer really is electric, autonomous ones, that will pose a huge challenge for an industry that has not fundamentally changed since the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford’s production line. We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla.

Industry 8

Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Every business is, willingly or unwillingly, a competitor on a software playing field, no matter which sector it’s in. You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on.

Software 8

Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2015

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Kleiner Business Model Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

One of us (Gunjan) counseled a top video game company to develop collaboration processes so that engineers in Bangalore and California could work on one integrated team over a 12.5-hour Homegrown automotive companies such as Tata Motors can be formidable partners or competitors.

CEO 10

CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

And I believe developing more resource-efficient business models will be the largest single financial opportunity of the twenty-first century. Some businesses are already adapting. Cummins , the Fortune 500 engine designer, began remanufacturing their products 45 years ago.

Resources 8

Resources McKinsey Globalization Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing. The grow-at-all-costs, move-fast-and-break-things mentality lauded in Silicon Valley can put lives at stake in the healthcare or automotive industries. We are seeing early hints of the possibilities among automotive OEMs. How do we get there?

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. Create a dedicated multidisciplinary team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8