Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

Most senior executives respond to this question by describing what the company is or what it does. In other words, Larry Page sees Google as a broad portfolio of science, technology, and Internet-related resources that can be leveraged into almost any meaningful new venture. Jeff Bezos gets this, too. What strategic assets—i.e.,

How To 100

How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. Implementing a customer relationship management system is complicated; delivering a winning customer experience every time is complex. Good execution requires a “Sharp focus and commitment to a few clearly identified goals.”

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Sull How To Insourcing Sharpe 71

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

Survey 10

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 10

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I compiled a list of 46 reasons that executives lie. 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. Too often, managers demand diligence about the wrong things: filling out forms is one glaring example.

Waterman 140

Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

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. Groups of executives are often prevented by their mental frames of reality from perceiving what’s really happening. Before explaining why, though, a bit of history.

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Scenario Planning Strategic Planning Kleiner Management 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2018

Dell Technologies surveyed 3,800 business leaders from around the world to uncover their forecasts for the next decade. Hi everybody, we’re live here at Dell Technologies World 2018. Hi everybody, we’re live here at Dell Technologies World 2018. Stella Low, Dell Technologies. Stella Low, Dell Technologies.

Technology 8

Technology Industry Content CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well. Threat analysis.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Recently, space and automotive titan Elon Musk said the machine-over-mankind threat was humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” Integrating New Technology Is About Emotions. Juj Winn/Getty Images.

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Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 14

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. Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed. Automotive OEMs. Aftermarket automotive. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the automobile. Transportation.

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I compiled a list of 46 reasons that executives lie. 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. Too often, managers demand diligence about the wrong things: filling out forms is one glaring example.

Waterman 55

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. Apex Automotive was a Taiwanese company that might generously be termed third tier. One person wasn't smiling.

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Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

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Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. Several executives in my study had the same experience.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The answers may not be as self-evident as many executives think. That's what we found when we studied the top management teams of companies in Europe over the past three years. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In just a few years digital technology has connected an ever-growing number of people, sensors, and devices. While some have invested significantly in technology, operational, and cultural changes, others are lagging behind. The broad deployment of digital technology requires rethinking both business and operating models.

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Company Operations Human Capital Business Model 8

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Move from the plant floor to the executive suite and we’re known as a company who has brought several unique and inventive products to the industry that has improved the efficient delivery of protein products to a demanding consumer. More valuable than this success is the realization that diamonds are sparkling within our reach.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. In turn, top executives should provide direction on improvement priorities down to front-line workers. And top executives don't have good mechanisms to share their vision downward. But this is rare.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk knows that one of Tesla’s biggest competitive advantages is the patience and long-term thinking not only of management but also of its investors. Unsurprisingly, autonomous driving technology and where Tesla stands relative to competitors are frequently discussed. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Technological innovations have radically transformed the business landscape in many ways over the last two centuries, from the introduction of steam power to the market conquest of radial-ply tires. In contrast, the automotive industry has barely half the rate of digital reinventors. Experiment with frontier technologies.

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Succession Industry McKinsey Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. However, I also pointed out a paradox: being bad at innovation and good at execution isn't necessarily undesirable. Executives will always look for ways to achieve meaningful growth and engage in strategic renewal.

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines. Sällström mapped outside industries, looking for people with pertinent skills.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

The linked system allowed for more insight into customers, and managers could use the information to coach employees, to assess whether they had the right tools and resources, and to identify people with innovative ideas and leadership potential. automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors.

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Survey Retail System Automotive 8

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. Everything was done seat of the pants and with minimal budget. Instead Honda stayed open and entrepreneurial.

Strategy 14

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

” But the only real wins are a victory for the hedge funds, and a Pyrrhic victory for GM in that it managed to keep Wilson off its board and reduced the size of the buyback from the $8 billion the investors had been demanding. Economy Financial markets Labor National competitiveness Automotive'

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Executives who receive stock options as part of their compensation have a vested interest in making their companies stronger and more competitive in the long run. When two strong district managers at one company left for a competitor, they took all of the salespeople who reported to them along with them. • monthly territory sales).

Incentives 13

Incentives Short-term Long-term Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A growing number of executives of U.S.-based In the automotive industry, for example, the U.S. This program focused on developing manufacturing company leaders who possess both a management perspective and deep technical knowledge. Dynamic supply-chain-management capabilities are now essential. million cars annually.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Incentives Policies Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Its directors have turned over many times, of course, but Trian Fund Management, led by activist Nelson Peltz, is pressing for far more than a routine remake, demanding four seats of its own choosing at the table. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In the 1990s, a whole subfield of economics reached "virtually unanimous agreement," as a survey in the Journal of Economic Perspectives noted , that in the context of technological change, markets themselves inevitably drove U.S. Everyone from the executive suite to the shop floor contributes as a team to production. Of course not.

Automotive 9

Automotive Lean Production Marketing Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

As directors and management teams adapt, they’re bumping into limits—both on the amount of time directors can be asked to spend before the role is no longer attractive and on the scope of the activities they can undertake before creating organizational noise or concerns among top executives about micromanagement.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. Because he and I have taught executive education classes together, I thought I should read his book. They don't just partner; they provide resources that add value.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Leonard found , Chilean president Sebastian Piñera immediately and effectively mobilized not just the critical government ministries and industry executives but also a variety of outside experts across the globe—from an Australian mapping software company to UPS. Finally, they tend to have an eye for networks of networks.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation. billion in retail managed resources, of which €8.43 It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97 for Spain's financial sector.

CEO 10

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

A fundamental problem at many American car companies is a legacy of reacting slowly, protecting executives from bad news, and focusing on cutting costs. “The phenomenal number of interacting parts, interacting people and continuing changes in technology mean that we will always have failures, full stop.”

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Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Yet, less than 20 percent of C-suite executives are women and only five percent of CEOs are women. Men highly self-rate their own leadership skills and their ability to tackle management and business challenges. Give managers who fail to develop their leaders a negative consequence.

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Diversity Globalization Transportation Industry 120

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Society of Automotive Engineers has defined six levels of autonomy from level 0 – 5. For most automakers, in order to reach this goal, incremental technological and commodity changes will not be enough. Wave Computing, for instance, offers a full range of SoC solutions designed specifically for the automotive industry.

Engineering 10

Engineering Automotive Supply Chain Software 10