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Prerequisites for Change Adoption

Change Starts Here

About twenty years ago, I was an engineering co-op student at Delco Electronics (now Delphi), an automotive electronics company that at the time was a subsidiary of General Motors. One summer, the company put on a Technology Expo to show off all the futuristic technology they were developing. Make Value Greater Than Cost.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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5 Core Values For The Workplace

Tim Milburn

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Diligence that nurtures strength makes a difference. PERSEVERANCE.

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Hard Questions on Our Transition to Driverless Cars

Harvard Business Review

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. By eliminating the driver altogether, businesses could slash costs by as much as 60%, depending on the industry. Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed.

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The Rebirth of U.S. Manufacturing: Myth or Reality?

Harvard Business Review

manufacturing industries, including aerospace and defense equipment, chemicals, industrial components, automotive equipment, and electronics. But this is essentially a rebalancing after many years in which manufacturing shifted overwhelmingly to lower-cost nations such as China. To help remedy this, L.E.K. Thanks to the boom in U.S.

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Technologies Your Business Really Can’t Afford Not To Embrace

Strategy Driven

They will see this as a time of technological revolution where science fiction met with science fact. A lot of the technologies themselves have been around, in some form or another for decades but through generations of refinement and repurposing, we are now witnesses to the emergence of technologies that will change the world.

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Guest Post: Dilenschneider on Workplace Core Values

Eric Jacobson

It narrates an engaging story about accountability in an energy-cogenerating firm called AES. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Diligence that nurtures strength makes a difference.