Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. ” The Power of Questions. Talk about the power of a good question to crack complexity. “A A really, really good question has the power to be your anchor in that boiling sea of doubt. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity. ” -Komlos, Benjamin.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. He is credited with inventing the phonograph, the motion picture camera, the alkaline battery, and, most importantly, the electric light bulb and the accompanying distribution system for electric power. Innovation Capital. Moreover, it’s hard.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. Leading companies such as IBM, Ford, and Avery Dennison are making major improvements in key processes by creating online communities to share deep knowledge. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Thus, you can see our existing infrastructural assets, and the business processes supporting them, as information transfer proxies.

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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. To understand where this new mobility might take us, it’s important to distinguish between two types of AI-powered motor vehicles: self-driving and driverless.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

” In the automotive industry, we see the same thing: the best quality is associated with the greatest speed. This is why parts and processes developed for race cars are later used in leisure vehicles: “ the automotive industry has always relied upon motorsports-borne technology [i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Robots have been doing tough jobs for over half a century, mostly in the automotive sector, but they’ve probably had a bigger impact in Hollywood movies than on factory floors. Some of them are no longer bolted to the factory floor, and they’re moving beyond automotive manufacturing. That’s about to change.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The automotive industry has opened up again. But what’s more likely is that in order to take full advantage of this new technology, everything will have to change. But what happens when the technology is good enough that accidents can be avoided entirely? With Apple’s entry, it’s clear.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Commerzbank has announced plans to digitize 80% of its processes within three years. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Freeways full of driverless cars and beer trucks are still far off, because of technological and regulatory limitations. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Engineers are no longer design experts; they are mediators who structure and enable design interactions between imaginative customers and innovative suppliers of technologies and systems. The development of those tools—we call them engagement platforms—represents a major opportunity for product companies and technology developers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

AI systems and devices will soon recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human emotions. In this application, the AI service acknowledges emotions and factors them into its decision making process. In this category, emotions play a part in the machine’s decision-making process.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

For instance, when Henry Ford disrupted the automotive world by building a company that used process assembly at scale to drive down cost, he abandoned the industry held belief that variety was important. Disruptive innovation Technology' Google Glass) which overlays digital information on the physical world around us.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

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. The process of managing operations, planning, and budgeting was seen as a series of regular occasions for managing the development of their people.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Shrinking revenues, customers who pirate (and actively distribute) products, dizzying technology change, new competitors, defecting advertisers, plummeting discretionary consumer spending — almost everything that could go wrong for music, magazine publishing, radio, newspapers, and broadcast television has gone wrong in the last fifteen years.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

To help matters even further, there are threat intelligence platforms that can help to simplify, make sense of, and integrate the intelligence into existing infrastructures and processes. Doing this effectively requires having powerful tools to identify the malicious traffic hidden in vast quantities of legitimate traffic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Honda as a company had a strong entrepreneurial spirit that sprang from its namesake founder, Soichiro Honda, who restlessly experimented with new technologies and products, willing to take risks in order to grow his fledgling company. market: too small, not powerful enough, no existing customer base. to 9% by 1973.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

Yes, there could be thousands of these nexus suppliers, but we now have the computing power to identify how critical each is. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. We have compiled the data for the top three tiers of a particular automotive company to its third-tier and identified over 8,000 suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common. For stock exchange personnel, it meant sitting through demos and simulations from a high-frequency, algorithmic trading firm intent on communicating how technology could improve efficiencies and liquidity.

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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). Power by the hour aligns customers and suppliers. For years, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2018

A lot of money has been spent on information technology in health care with little to show for it. It only takes 10 minutes of direct observation of a nurse in a hospital to understand care-delivery processes are not standardized and are dependent on individuals, not systems. When it comes to change, the technology is the easiest part.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In reality, though, each step is fraught with psychological difficulties and organizational complications, making the process as much an exercise in rooting out unspoken assumptions as a mathematical exercise. Or by making process improvements? Add up the figures from lines two and three, and compare with the figures from line one.

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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. annual trade deficit in advanced technology products alone stands around $100 billion. federal research in the 1990s largely established the feasibility of the technology, U.S.

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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. This power turned out to be a game changer. The perspective of an outside authority.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

They like technology, they have an Xbox, they have children, and they have an annual household income of more than $100,000. And going into 2017, just two years from now, the momentum they will have generated will force executives at your company to sidestep drones, self-driving cars, and robots to focus on this technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I studied large-scale change and innovation efforts in 56 randomly selected companies in the high-tech, retail, pharmaceutical, banking, automotive, insurance, energy, non-profit, and health care industries. But they recognize that they — and the organization — need a process to help them reach their goals.

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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. In a world underpinned by ever more powerful, affordable, and public technology platforms, software is still king.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

“Advances in technology have helped us reimagine fan engagement and create new business models that we never thought possible. “FOX Sports has always been about fans first,” says Tom Zentmeyer, Vice President, Technology and Games at FOX Sports. “It’s tribal. Empowering Digital Societies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? A Concentration of Wealth, Value, and Power. Winner-take-all economics favored the companies in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The autonomous economy is where intelligent machines, robots, artificial intelligence, big data, and high-speed digital communication power production. Those processes produce high-quality goods and services, frequently with little human involvement. The cost of health insurance has risen by over 44% in the past five years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the prime drivers of economic growth inside America over the past century has been disruptive innovation ; yet the phenomenon that Lessig describes is increasingly being used by large incumbent firms as a mechanism to stave off the process. It seems to be happening more and more frequently, across sectors: Automotive.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

For years, Atrius Health had been focusing on standardizing processes, removing waste, and improving efficiency using improvement activities employing lean. Instead of incrementally improving processes, the goal became replacing them and creating whole new care models. The original approach was dubbed “care-model improvement.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The raw wafer for an iPhone chip might have been processed in Texas before it was shipped to a factory in Taiwan to be diced into individual chips and tested, then wire bonded into a package before going to a parts distribution center, before finally making it to that assembly line in Zhengzhou, China.

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