Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. While lean production has almost nothing to do with video production, the clear message was that genuinely lean enterprise craved innovation that made their suppliers more innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. Innovation, customization, speed, and location are also among the opportunities it offers. How could digital printing improve your innovation, product development, and speed to market?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We have Waze for traffic navigation and congestion; why not a Waze for automotive emissions and pollution? In food, as well as finance, activists will have to marry meaningful analytics to ideology to spark interest and wield influence. Consider “digital due diligence” emerging as a new normal for the sharing economy.

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Due Diligence Automotive NGO Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2018

If you want to understand the future of Tesla, and Elon Musk’s role in it — something many are keen to do, given the spate of negative headlines about the company — you should start with a bit of automotive history from the 20th century. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the U.S.

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

“Technology is advancing at an unprecedented pace and this milestone allows federal regulations and the use of our national airspace to evolve to safely accommodate innovation,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a press release that accompanied the announcement. Both the U.K. entrepreneurs twiddle their thumbs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

With the AI field recently picking up its pace of innovation after the decades-long “AI winter,” technical expertise and capabilities are in short supply. We found that industries leading in AI adoption — such as high-tech, telecom, and automotive — are also the ones that are the most digitized.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

If you’re in automotive, you might look at other highly regulated industries, like healthcare and finance, which manage to experiment considerably despite stringent regulatory environments. Innovation Product development Risk management Tech industry' Look across adjacent industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. If you are competing in an ecosystem world, you must pay as much attention to the progress of co-innovators as to your own innovation efforts.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

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. We have identified four principles with straightforward steps that policymakers, business leaders, and universities can take to restore innovation ecosystems.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Apple fanboys and Samsung’s “Next Big Thing”ers would hoot with derisive laughter if The Wall Street Journal or Financial Times reported that GM or Ford planned to rewrite the rules of smartphone innovation. These companies haven’t had to respond to a truly disruptive innovator in over forty years. They should.

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Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. With automotive analysts forecasting major changes ahead in mobility, they began to think that the firm needed a dedicated lab that focused entirely on data challenges. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot. ” Domain experts.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. One-quarter of the truck freight between the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

However, new tariffs or more-restrictive rules of origin would likely only fall on a few industries, such as the automotive sector. If he wins with only a narrow victory, as seems likely, his administration would have a limited mandate for populist reforms that would severely damage foreign investment flows and public finances.

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Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

While some might be enthused by the potential for corporate tax reform or a (promised) $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan, it’s more likely they’re referring to the historic rollback of regulations in the works across many sectors , from fossil fuels to mining, guns, and finance.

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