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. In my over five years of work with Intel, scenario planning provided extensive insights and innovations, earning recognition from top leadership as an essential strategy tool.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 12

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. To this day, I get excited about seeing Subaru’s new products and learning about the engineering that went into making them. Some things in business and life are simply out of our control.

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

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. 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. What to do. Don’t optimize for efficiency. Your goal is success. What to do.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

This was the case at Harman , which had achieved extraordinary success in the high-end automotive infotainment systems for luxury cars. We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require. The lesson is clear.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In North America alone, GM staffs 26 full-time social media customer care advisers — not including marketing and communications personnel — covering more than 150 owned social channels from GM, Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac and approximately 85 earned sites such as automotive enthusiast forums. Keep it simple.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Classic leadership lessons apply. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. Engineering innovations lowered the cost. Enter a coalition. This model produced a big success in Miami. infrastructure problems.

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Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. In part 2, employees rated the best-of-the-best ideas and senior management committed to implement the top 35. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

At the mine site, project leader André Sougarret sought assistance while managing the boundaries of the rescue effort to screen out contributors who lacked expertise or workable proposals. Together the officials and engineers overcame unprecedented technical challenges and brought about a rescue that most observers hardly thought possible.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. In several industries, such as consumer goods, financial services, industrial products, and logistics, COOs usually had backgrounds in either managing operations or information technology departments.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

The tightly-controlled automotive company fostered a mentality where the lower ranks faced immense pressure to achieve the company’s business objectives. The punishing, pressure-cooker work environment meant that Volkswagen engineers were apparently loath to say no or admit failure to superiors. billion in inflated profits.

Ethics 8

Ethics Company Incentives Policies 8

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. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator. billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43

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CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

And the sheer complexity of building cars also plays a role — David Cole, the former head of the Center for Automotive Research (and son of a former GM president), insists that this is really what’s behind the ignition switch error and why it was so hard for the company to get to the bottom of the problem.

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla. They have to compete just as hard as ever to sustain leadership in the markets that exist today, even as they figure out how to compete in the future.

Industry 8

Industry Engineering Transportation Technology 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. DDI’s High-Resolution Leadership study reviewed true assessment data from 10,000 global leaders and found no difference in the battle of the sexes for leadership skills.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

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. Pratt & Whitney has partnered with IBM to enhance its engine management offering. Consider GE.

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Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. 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 India is a complex country and has a unique mix of Asian and Western values.

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CEO Long-term Short-term Mass Marketing 10

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Systems Engineer. DEADS: Data Engineer and Data Scientist. Machine Learning Engineer. The promise of AI is to shift the complexity of managing systems from the programmer to the program. Machine Learning Engineer: The objective of ML/DL is to develop a predictive engine for a specific use case. Data Analyst.

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Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

The switches could, if bumped or weighed down by a heavy key ring, cut off engine power and disable air bags. According to another , “GM has said the issue was discovered as early as 2001, and in 2004, a company engineer ran into the problem during the testing phase of the soon-to-be-released Chevrolet Cobalt.”.

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Report Learning-by-Doing Crisis Management CEO 8

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.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8