N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 1, 2016
with equal rotation of study in the final year of GMI’s Business Administration School, really launched my career at GM and led to my quick progression through the organisation culminating in my leading the team that restructured General Motors in Australia in 1986. I have been extremely fortunate to have had a very varied career.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013. Capital-intensive factories have a high-fixed-cost, low-variable-cost operating model. That is what GM is trying to do.
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Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 16, 2013
We were a mediocre, at best, institutional operation with a sense of entitlement. We spent half a million dollars to train our people and restructure our reward systems over 10 years. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Our real problem was we were not holding our leaders and staff accountable.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 12, 2018
And at Björn Borg, their key performance indicators have improved after Bunge was brought in as CEO : net sales increased by 27% between 2013 and 2016, and operating profits tripled. layoffs or restructurings) or make someone happier in their job (even if it makes their lives, on a whole, more pleasant).
Harvard Business Review
JULY 17, 2015
The brand died a slow death, beginning when Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and then ultimately when its acquirer, Dish Network, decided to shut down all video rental operations in 2013. After a few unsuccessful efforts to restructure, the company leaders decided to kill the brand and close their stores.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 23, 2015
But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music (first downloads and then streaming) had changed the business dramatically. ” We restructured Machine Shop to focus on innovation through non-traditional business partnerships and creative design thinking. Photo by Lorenzo Errico.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 23, 2018
Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating.
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