The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

As with so much of the coverage related to AI and automation, the hype train has somewhat run away from itself, and the authors argue that safe and efficient automated truck driving is still a little way off. With some companies actively developing tech at this level, it seems a reasonable place to start testing assumptions.

Short-term 62

Short-term Automotive Long-term Technology 62

Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Packaging designers developed a six-sided box that allowed them to ship nine filtration systems in a container versus six in a square box, further reducing the costs of production. Laura explained: We activate our associates to develop and adapt their knowledge. How we can create products that are sustainable?

Leadership 95

Leadership Automotive System Motivation 95

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Gianpiero Petriglieri – Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD , Director of the Management Acceleration Programme at INSEAD , medical doctor and psychiatrist by training. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Be aware of the public nature of the automotive industry and contribute to the welfare of society. From that year on, the QC training seminar for executives meeting came to be held every year, and in 1991, its ninth year, the group was renamed the Executive Study Group. Item 4 was added in fiscal 1970 (ended June 1971).

Deming 28

Deming Lean Manufacturing Management Long-term 28

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

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. As mobility changes around us, how should we approach our master plans for airports, car parking, high-speed trains, energy, ports, toll roads, and so forth? Automotive OEMs.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Because business is fraught with many risks and challenges, and because this journey isn’t right for everyone, I’ve developed some questions that will help you get more clarity so you can make better decisions for yourself when it comes to starting a business. How do you deal with routine failure? Do you have good instincts about people?

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Planning well, in his estimation, required “training the mind.” The rise of mindfulness is unquestionably a positive development.

Scenario Planning 13

Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

” They had developed inside the company and therefore knew the organization and its norms as well as the people and their capabilities — but they had also retained a strong streak of objectivity. The world of activist investors has made the task of developing insider-outsiders that much more difficult.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

A basic materials company selling to the automotive sector, for example, drove its sales projections by the number of cars sold by region, which seems logical. However, its orders were actually tied to the number of new automotive projects (e.g. What's Wrong With Your Sales Training Program. prototypes, factory modifications).

Trends 15

Trends Automotive Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2017

Business process redesign and better training are important, but better use cases – those real-world tasks and interactions that determine everyday business outcomes – offer the biggest payoffs. Thoughtful UX designs can better train machine learning systems to become even smarter.

Company 10

Company Software Budgeting Consultative 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

Skills 8

Skills Company Health Care Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Developing what we call an “M&A strategy for talent” is one way to overcome this. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. Between 2011 and 2015, the company added 3,000 new people in engineering and development.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Indeed, in a world where globalization and rapid technological changes are the norm, manufacturing, high-tech development, and innovation clearly require a different level of support. Equally important are bold reforms in workforce education and training systems. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

In another HBR post I discussed the need for employers to stop waiting for the perfect candidate but rather create one by training a quality applicant. Just as we said you should train people who are almost there, you need to increase your scope so that you can find as many almost-there candidates as possible.

Business Intelligence 9

Business Intelligence Automotive Skills Training 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

From how we code to how we type, much of the world’s biggest advancements were developed with the English-speaking market in mind. English’s importance in the early development of modern technology has cemented its global importance today. These companies are even offering language training tools for their employees.

Innovation 8

Innovation Globalization IPO Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

Fleming focuses on cross-pollination in the context of “big D” Development, which often involves recombination of existing knowledge to serve commercial goals. But paint is really not as simple as just paint; for example, coatings for automotive applications are very different from decorative finishes.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Automotive Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Among Beijing residents surveyed, 84% blame the congestion, incessant honking, and nerve-shredding daily automotive gauntlet for adverse work performance. Being able to come in at 9:30 "gives me a lot of flexibility," says Nikunj Upadhyay, vice president of organizational development. "I I can exercise or do yoga.

Marketing 14

Marketing Transportation Attrition Automotive 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Still, manufacturing is now going through a genuine transformational period , driven particularly by increased labor costs in developing countries, shifting demand patterns, heightened market volatility, and significant rises in the price of oil. In the automotive industry, for example, the U.S. million cars annually.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Incentives Policies Automotive 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

In order for Nissan to actually pursue the Vision Zero goal, the company is forced to think differently about innovation and product development, developing technologies that keep cars from hitting each other. How will trains run on renewables without some deep investment by utilities and European governments?

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

AutoEmotive , Affectiva’s Automotive AI , and Ford are racing to get emotional car software market-ready to detect human emotions such as anger or lack of attention, and then take control over or stop the vehicle, preventing accidents or acts of road rage. Systems that provide a targeted emotional analysis for learning purposes.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

I recently conducted a study of 56 randomly selected companies involved in major change and innovation efforts in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. Leadership development Leadership transitions Managing people'

Middle Management 9

Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 9

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

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Implicit bias training has a role to play — not as a one-off quick fix, but through regular interventions specifically focused on how to remove stereotypical assumptions from recruitment, training and development, and promotion. A starting point is to acknowledge and challenge stereotypes. Take promotions, for example.

Engineering 8

Engineering Management Career Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

But our company makes software that is used across dozens of industry verticals — automotive, health care, hospitality, and the public sector — each with their own specific needs and goals. Our intention for Hook & Loop was not to hire the best and brightest software developers.

Diversity 9

Diversity Software Engineering Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Our power train electronics are sophisticated and efficient — I think as good as anybody's. Apex Automotive was a Taiwanese company that might generously be termed third tier. We had Apex.".

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. For all of the uncertainty and anxiety in headlines today, the world is a much better place than it has ever been.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In later stages you’ll want people who think about how to scale through process, training, and systems. The patterns that you develop at this key stage will grow with you and will spell the difference between running or stumbling as you hit the growth stage. This work is hard and often unglamorous. What to do. What not to do.

Metrics 14

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

There were companies in a wide range of industries, from automotive and industrial equipment manufacturers to oil and gas majors. Consider a European automotive company, which has been successfully deploying rapid prototyping across its various businesses, using an effective combination of digitized designs and 3D printing.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 8

Deming Institute

MARCH 10, 2016

His clients were so diverse, from telecommunication companies to railway and automotive enterprises, even hospitals. Luciana Paulise is a business consultant and founder of Biztorming Training & Consulting. There was so much wonderful information that I could stay reading forever, time really passed by fast down there.

Deming 28

Deming Library Tips Telecommunications 28

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

JUNE 1, 2016

Now, they are pioneering a new phase of global digital manufacturing that will transform the key processes surrounding the manufacturing of everything from automobiles to trains, planes, machinery, and even kitchens. Each new car costs the automotive OEM anywhere from a few to several hundred dollars in extra cost.

Industry 8

Industry Automotive Supply Chain Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Specifically, the advent of consumer electronics, IT, electric and battery powered drivetrains, and — soon — autonomy in the automotive industry are placing excruciating new demands on its workforce, and forcing painful change. Similar patterns of cutting and hiring are visible in last week’s announcement.

Industry 8

Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The nurse has real-time phone access to a geriatric care–trained nurse practitioner who, based on the nurse’s assessment, can order tests (including in-home imaging) and prescriptions and make treatment decisions. Develop a complete understanding of the system. Protect the work. Most are not equipped to do so.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8