Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Whatever the nature of your business, there are certain technologies that are slowly and quietly but consistently revolutionizing the ways in which businesses operate and the tech savvy business can either get in on the ground floor or face the combined impediments of increased running costs, lower output and reduced productivity.

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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.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

It outlined Tesla’s automotive strategy and it has been pretty much followed to the letter. The second installment moves Tesla beyond the traditional car market, with a plan to reconfigure our cities, energy systems, and our impact on the environment. The first installment had been written in 2006.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

The American automotive industry looked rock-solid. HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Similarly, HCCI saved 40% on energy by building its own 1.2-megawat Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. Other financial and operating indicators showed similar disparities. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models. for leaders and 3.2% for laggards.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. What do you think?

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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.

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Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one. In the traditional model of electricity generation, large power plants produce power at a centralized location, which operates at a considerable distance from the points of consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

We built a Social Media Command Center, a high-energy, state-of-the-art engagement environment featuring dozens of wireless work stations, multiple collaboration rooms, and 18 HD monitors that display a wide variety of social feeds — all housed in a 6,200-square-foot workspace. Keep it simple.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Consider the automotive industry. automotive manufacturers owned rental car companies in the hopes of maintaining strong unit sales figures by captive fleet purchases (which were also to maintain volume to fulfill their onerous union obligations). When things change, outmoded metrics can threaten a firm’s survival.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. However, new tariffs or more-restrictive rules of origin would likely only fall on a few industries, such as the automotive sector. Navigating the Next Two Years in Mexico. Economic growth would fall to -1.5%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The McKinsey Global Institute reports that price volatility has hit a high , second only to the energy crisis of the 1970s. But recycling — melting down products and making new ones — is energy intensive. A handful of established US companies already have impressive remanufacturing operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. Which is pretty much all of them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

So when we faced such a challenge at Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 automotive supplier with 136,000 employees worldwide, we knew the odds were against us. Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We still need strong operational results if we are going to stay competitive.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the Thailand floods of November 2011, both the hard-drive industry and the automotive sector experienced serious supply chain problems. Smart companies will be examining supply chains and operations very closely for risks associated with water shortages, floods, storms, and resource constraints.

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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. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry. Mind the Mittelstand.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

A surprising number reach for deep changes in the world, going well beyond the expected and narrower kind of goals like “reduce energy use 10%.” The Automotive Science Group just named the F-150 the best large truck on environmental and economic performance (a lighter truck also saves the driver money on fuel).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

While cars have been getting smarter and smarter, the removal of human operators is what will dramatically change the law. From the beginning, self-driving vehicles have proven to be better drivers than most human operators, since software is able to learn as it goes. traffic deaths.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This fleet of driverless cars — 600 Chrysler Pacifica mini-vans, operated by Google’s Waymo — can be seen today daily on the streets where companies like GM and Ford also are testing autonomous innovations. Other industry-leading companies like Ford and GM have also moved their driverless car operations to the state.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

Many companies love customer feedback, but only a handful have devoted as much energy to employee feedback systems. automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors. Linking feedback systems allows companies to enlist frontline employees as agents of change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

The idea that these protections are anti-business stems from a huge misperception that business operates outside of a world that needs clean air and water or a stable climate to function. Well-designed guidelines for business protect our shared resources and people (and ecosystems) who can’t defend themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series racetrack is a Super Bowl–sized event packed with tens of thousands of fans who’ve come for the weekend to cheer on their favorite drivers. The app also features highlights from top shows. The result has been a seamless customer experience that has received thousands of five-star reviews.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

.” This style of “more electric” control by software also means big gains in energy efficiency. One automotive engineer told me that mandated fuel-economy standards were forcing manufacturers to replace engine-driven mechanical and hydraulic loads with electric.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Fairly constantly in actual decision-making, it’s not so much choosing alternative A or choosing alternative B, but how you operate within the alternative you have chosen. If you provided more money, it was more costly to taxpayers and you were exposing the government to greater risk.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

We already see companies localizing time-sensitive and highly customizable forms of production to move closer to customer demand, particularly in the fast apparel (Adidas, Zara) and automotive (Tesla) industries, thus turning global supply chains into two-way streets. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

If all went well, Blue Sky would soon be using Prime's components in its energy-efficient cars and trucks. "At Apex Automotive was a Taiwanese company that might generously be termed third tier. Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation. But we play in the real world. We had Apex.". Lin scoffed.

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