Coaching Tip

APRIL 27, 2012

Bob Lutz former Vice Chairman of General Motors, president of Chrysler, as well as an executive at both Ford and BMW, conceived the Chevy Volt as his last automotive project. In The New York Times of April 22, 2012, a former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance.

Welch 117

Welch Ethics Automotive Globalization 117

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on project management. million times. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The millions of women who have poured into the workforce in emerging markets over the past decade are used to overcoming obstacles but few are more difficult, infuriating, and demeaning than their daily commute. That's a real problem, according to our new book, Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets: Why Women are the Solution.

Marketing 13

Marketing Transportation Attrition Automotive 13

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. Of the large markets, the U.S., Automotive OEMs. Aftermarket automotive. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the automobile. For example: Infrastructure.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

An automobile manufacturer got it right when it tried to crack the Indian market. Based on this competitive analysis, it decided to build relationships with a network of dealerships in these smaller markets. However, its orders were actually tied to the number of new automotive projects (e.g. Keep it manageable.

Trends 14

Trends Automotive Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

Over the past 20 years, no group has endured greater pain and humiliation within organizations than mid-level managers (MLMs — managers from two levels below the CEO down to the line managers). Leadership development Leadership transitions Managing people' MLMs who remained were labeled "dinosaurs" or "overhead.".

Middle Management 8

Middle Management Management Automotive Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When last year's massive earthquake hit Japan, the effect on electronics production was severe, and it also resulted in extended business disruptions for many in the automotive industry. When Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The automotive industry has opened up again. This allowed merchants to put their product in locked containers at the point of production — containers which could be efficiently loaded on and off of trucks, trains, and ships. It was clearly a superior method of managing commerce. With Apple’s entry, it’s clear.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. Far from drinking the company Kool-Aid, they had an understanding of why and how the company had to change to deal with new opportunities and challenges posed by changing markets and technology.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

Half of hiring managers said that they were concerned about the expanding skills gap , and around the same amount say they limit their candidate pools by only looking at applicants with specific job titles. Hiring managers are understandably cautious with their hiring practices in the wake of the recession.

Business Intelligence 8

Business Intelligence Automotive Skills Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

A combination of facial analysis, voice pattern analysis, and deep learning can already decode human emotions for market research and political polling purposes. Targeted emotional learning systems are also being tested for group settings, such as by analyzing the emotions of students for teachers , or workers for managers.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. To get the skills and change agents it needed, Volvo looked outside the automotive industry. He was creative and, in some cases, counterintuitive.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The United States remains a large, affluent market that generates significant global demand. 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.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Incentives Policies Automotive 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. What to do. What to do. What not to do.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Leaders in the study reported having to implement staff reduction targets, dispose of big businesses in major markets, and lead mergers and acquisitions.

Ethics 10

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

During the training camp at the beginning of the season, the new players had to get up on a table, in front of all their teammates, and sing a song that represented their country. One pillar of Bosch Automotive Aftermarket's recent sales strategy change was to foster entrepreneurship and risk taking among Key Account Managers.

Sports 8

Sports Bond Automotive Brainstorming 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

But since there’s no way Nissan could address the goal solely through its products, it also propels creativity in marketing in order to change how all of us drive. How will trains run on renewables without some deep investment by utilities and European governments? Even tactical operational goals can be transformative.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

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 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. One person wasn't smiling.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In emerging markets, billions of people have moved out of extreme poverty. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. “Strategies for Two-Sided Markets” 3. These are the seven areas: 1.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs. There were companies in a wide range of industries, from automotive and industrial equipment manufacturers to oil and gas majors.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 8

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 9

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 9

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. Only in that way will workers be able to ride out the coming waves of tech-driven staffing changes.

Industry 8

Industry Technology Engineering Automotive 8