Strategy Driven

JANUARY 22, 2016

Most people think of risk management as an insurance policy, the price paid to help prevent potentially negative outcomes from being realized by their company. An analogy we use is that instead of correlating risk management to an insurance policy, leaders should think of it in terms of a high performance automotive breaking system.

Risk Management 50

Risk Management Management Insurance Automotive 50

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Practice ‘Good Thinking, Good Products’ at all times to raise the reputation of Toyota as a maker of quality products. Establish mass production systems, achieve low prices, and contribute to the growth of the Japanese economy.

Deming 28

Deming Lean Manufacturing Management Long-term 28

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

” is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance.

Waterman 140

Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

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. Self-driving capabilities can boost safety and driver productivity. What will happen to demand, pricing, and usage patterns over that horizon? Automotive OEMs.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance.

Waterman 56

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

Changes could range from adjustments to the rules of origin for product content, and more-stringent labor standards, to the extreme of withdrawal and a return to World Trade Organization most-favored-nation tariffs. producers to lower their prices in foreign markets, raising demand for U.S. NAFTA is headed for a renegotiation.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Hedge Uncertainty Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The automotive industry has opened up again. Up until the late 1950’s, anyone interested in sending bulk product across the globe placed that product in 60-pound burlap sacks, sent those to the docks, and entrusted longshoremen to tuck them efficiently into nooks and crannies in the hulls of merchant vessels.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Though we enjoy writing about dropout tech legends, most times their success is catalyzed by others — they came up with the ideas and the investors provided the leadership and the non-tech factors (such as pricing models, branding, and promotions, among others) that propelled them to stardom.

Licensing 16

Licensing Software Automotive Incubator 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Emerging economies have the bulk of the world’s population, yet most of them are non-consumers of products and services that we take for granted in the West. Converting these non-consumers into consumers will require breakthrough innovations — quality products at affordable prices. Mangalyaan is not an isolated example.

Innovation 9

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

And Honeywell recently established a dedicated Industrial IoT (IIoT) division to create an IoT platform that helps industrial clients derive greater value from its products and the 2.5 Automotive telematics can capture metrics such as the frequency and length of trips and unsafe driving behaviors like hard braking and rapid acceleration.

Company 8

Company Operations Human Capital Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

SolarCity’s effort, alongside the heavily subsidized production of rooftop solar from China, will help to make the energy source more affordable, meaning there will be more demand for storage solutions like the Powerwall. That is the reason why the 7KWh battery (priced at $3000 by Tesla) is not going to be offered by SolarCity.

Price 8

Price Energy Technology Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. And they did it. lakhs ($6,600).

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

It has been ranked as car of the year by a number of automotive outlets, and one friend of mine who lives in San Francisco has gloated noisily about his chance to drive it. The controversy will continue, as these things do, and Tesla's stock price will dip and recover and dip again. My product will overwhelm you with its awesomeness.

Automotive 9

Automotive Review Transportation Innovation 9

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. economy. .”

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Consumers in the United States are used to buying products that are made in China. During the global financial crisis, Robert Remenar, CEO of Nexteer, a Michigan-based automotive steering firm, deliberately searched for potential new Chinese owners. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million.

Automotive 8

Automotive Long-term Operations Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

The fact that any of these theories could be true – and based on the share price movement, all of them are being applauded – says three important things about the nature of industries and competition today: Industries are increasingly irrelevant; it’s now the ecosystem that matters. Is Tesla even an automotive company?

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

In the short run, China could stop importing and substitute many of these products. Any action that might lead to food price inflation will not be taken lightly. The government could exert pressure on automotive joint ventures to source locally, and through inspections, making it tough to import vehicles and components.

Apparel 14

Apparel Real Estate Automotive Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2012

The automotive industry is a useful analogy, for both safety and enjoyment. To satisfy the gun control (Safety Seeker) group and the first group of gun owners (Protection Seeker), requiring innovations in product safety is the first opportunity. Going deeper and segmenting the gun proponent consumer yields key insights.

Industry 8

Industry Insurance Automotive Cost 8

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. Sales of our existing products and services will increase as emerging economies grow and consumer incomes rise. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2015

In 2013 GM produced 3 million cars in China , or 45% of its global car production; that was up from 1.1 Going forward, GM will need all the financial resources it can muster to produce automobiles that buyers in diverse global markets want at prices that they are willing to pay. .” million vehicles in 2008.

Hedge 8

Hedge Company Automotive Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If Gerber's failed adult food business had been born outside of its existing organization, would the managers have distributed a product that looked like Gerber baby food? But one thing is certain: faced at the onset with internal pressure to drive cost out of production, it was far less likely that Gerber could truly innovate.

Innovation 15

Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. What happens, for example, if the value of a product’s underlying intellectual property overtakes its production value?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

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.

Media 13

Media Industry Trends Health Care 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

The integrated circuit made existing products better. Not only did it create the automotive industry, but Henry Ford shocked the industrial world when he doubled the pay of assembly line workers to $5 a day. The Internet has made shopping more efficient and created more competition that has driven down consumer prices.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

It has disrupted mature industries, such as hotels and automotives, by providing consumers with convenient and cost efficient access to resources without the financial, emotional, or social burdens of ownership. Uber positions itself squarely around its pricing, reliability, and convenience.

Competitive Advantage 8

Competitive Advantage Hotels Short-term Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

For example, Dürr, the German supplier of paint and assembly shops, may have only about 40 accounts, but each is a huge automotive manufacturer with hundreds of decision makers and influencers. Coding categories might include price, the sales process, the product itself and service, with several sub-categories below each one.

B2B 8

B2B Automotive Engineering Report 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

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. Automation will transform not just production, but operating models. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

We examined how each initiative impacted a company’s value through changes in its stock price, which we used as a proxy for determining the short-term costs of self-disruption. Traditional automotive manufacturers certainly do. We validated our quantitative approach by reviewing several case studies of U.S.

Company 8

Company Disruptive Innovation Decentralization Software 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

The theory of disruption explains why incumbent businesses – with high fixed cost infrastructures and embedded beliefs about what the market wants – fail to adopt business models that lower the cost of their services and drive product accessibility to entirely new sets of users.

Disruptive Innovation 8

Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

based companies are repatriating their manufacturing capabilities — moving some production operations back from overseas. In the automotive industry, for example, the U.S. Local talent and skills are essential to productivity and innovation. A growing number of executives of U.S.-based million cars annually.

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Incentives Policies Automotive 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

One is to mathematically derive the growth expectations baked into your stock price and set the target to reach those expectations (if you’re only concerned with maintaining share price) or to exceed them (if you want to see a stock price rise). Calculating organic growth.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

"To protests from business and praise from unions, environmentalists, and consumer groups, one agency after another has ratcheted up the price of life, justifying tougher—and more costly—standards," the article reports. More productive? The EPA, for example, has revised its estimate of your value from $6.8 million now.

Cost 15

Cost Proposal Automotive Price 15

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

DECEMBER 5, 2017

And since as many as 94% of accidents are attributed to human error , the number and severity of accidents and insurance claims will drop, also leading to lower premiums as insurers learn to price in accordance with real risk. Product liability. In short, change is inevitable for auto insurers, but the change can be positive.

Insurance 10

Insurance Software Business Model Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

This kind of competition often drives consolidation mergers, in which two firms combine their production and sales. Incumbents may also strike deals to cope with disruption, as when today’s automotive companies invest in car-sharing services and autonomous vehicle technology.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background. “People Are Angry About Globalization.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8