Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

You have a book that teaches creativity, one that teaches how to test and validate those ideas, and now this one which is unique. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) ” Management Science 56.2 Indra Nooyi. v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

Innovation 83

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 83

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. A courageous top manager in this firm, Bob Hemphill -- who is a leader, no doubt about it -- decided to declare war on "they."

Waterman 55

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Authorship creates ownership and commitment, and ultimately leads to creative and impactful solutions.

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

To many, a modern meat plant might seem somewhat “shocking”, but to us this “automotive assembly plant operating in reverse” is common place and, in fact, we are not easily “shocked” by much of anything (for evidence of this you are welcome to view the video on our website).

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I also find it interesting because the common hindsight narrative about Honda's success glosses over the many bumps along the way and imparts a sense of genius foresight to Honda's managers that they themselves would have rejected. What lessons can we draw from how Honda took steps into this new market, which it ultimately came to dominate?

Strategy 14

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

A combination of facial analysis, voice pattern analysis, and deep learning can already decode human emotions for market research and political polling purposes. Targeted emotional learning systems are also being tested for group settings, such as by analyzing the emotions of students for teachers , or workers for managers.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

” An increasing number of companies — particularly in the auto industry — are heeding that call, setting aggressive, creative, and visionary goals that change their approach to business and how they relate to the wider world. Sam Walton once said, “High expectations are the key to everything.”

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

The supplier possesses critical market information. We have compiled the data for the top three tiers of a particular automotive company to its third-tier and identified over 8,000 suppliers. Once we have computed initial NSI scores for all suppliers, we can use business analytics to validate the scores.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Operations Automotive Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

By sheer happenstance, I had just gotten a copy of Gemba Walks , a collection of essays by James Womack , a co-author of the automotive classic The Machine That Changed The World and a pioneering importer of Toyota-inspired lean production insights and methodologies to America. "We provide the space, equipment and expertise.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Co-creation involves giving customers the right to participate in the design of their own experience, not only by giving input about what they like and don't like as in traditional market research but also by giving them tools that allow them to become actual designers. There are a few exceptions here and there. The race is on.

Engineering 13

Engineering Automotive Objective Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

A marketing manager from the French Saint Gobain Group shared a rather extraordinary example with us: "With my team, before presenting to the Board our marketing plans, we're always very nervous. KAMs simply used to do their best to execute what their managers told them, but they didn't take initiative.

Sports 8

Sports Bond Automotive Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. But the better and more challenging question is, how would the automotive industry’s incumbents respond to genuinely disruptive competition?

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. It starts by inspiring your customer to tell your story in an authentic way, by building empathy and creating an emotional connection that turns customers into fans.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8