The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 18, 2023

At the same time, investors, regulators, customers, and shareholders are all looking to big companies and their CEOs to take the lead in making real progress against global warming.” Whether this squares with longstanding accusations about greenwashing aimed at both automotive and oil and gas sectors is another matter, however.

Innovation 76

Innovation Automotive Benchmarking Business Model 76

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

I don’t like Ralph Nader and I didn’t like the book, but there was definitely a role for government in automotive safety.” When was the last time your CEO gave a talk to new employees about character and courage? Lutz, who was a top executive at BMW, Ford Motor, Chrysler and General Motors, said in a telephone interview. “I

Leadership 155

Leadership Automotive Seminar Guidelines 155

Coaching Tip

JUNE 2, 2011

Here in Michigan, the automotive industry has always been an everyday topic of conversation. In the past, college graduates would gain employment as automotive industry managers and high school graduates would be well compensated by seeking factory jobs. products during the 10s and 20s. .

Automotive 95

Automotive Supply Chain Industry Engineering 95

CEO Insider

JULY 8, 2020

These awards were segmented across six major sectors: Automotive Energy […]. A total of 15 awards were presented to organizations for elevating performance benchmarks and for their outstanding achievements in the industry.

Automotive 52

Automotive Benchmarking Organization Licensing 52

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 24, 2013

KKSP Precision Machining in Glendale Heights, Illinois, is a manufacturer of high-volume, precision made-to-print automatic screw machine products for automotive, medical/veterinary, appliance, HVAC and aerospace markets. David Nussear, President and CEO of Bluffton Motor Works, agreed. With Six Disciplines, it’s a process.

Case Study 83

Case Study Automotive Strategic Planning Engineering 83

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

CEO Interview: Sam Walsh. This edition of the CEO interview features Sam Walsh, the recently retired CEO, of Rio Tinto. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. (as featured in mining.com).

Gordon 150

Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Skip Prichard

MAY 6, 2019

David Komlos is CEO of Syntegrity and David Bejamin leads Syntegrity’s client delivery organization. Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. That’s why I was interested to see how David Komlos and David Benjamin tackled the subject. ” -John Maeda. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity.

How To 88

How To Automotive Class Power 88

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

From starting her post as CEO of America’s largest automotive manufacturer, to being named “The Most Powerful Woman” by Fortune, to being the focal point of the newest cyber rampage on gender pay inequality, Ms Barra is making headlines around the world. What an eventful month it has been for Strategista Mary Barra!

Strategy 98

Strategy Automotive Human Resources Engineering 98

HR Digest

JANUARY 27, 2019

Tim Cook, Apple CEO has been showing-off lately the initiatives of the company in the health sector, he described it as a formidable tool to its future growth. "I Developing self-driving vehicles has indeed witnessed lots of venture investors as well as strategic investors coming from the traditional automotive industry.

Project 40

Project Restructuring Automotive System 40

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Non-profit CEOs. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Allowing teams within units to select their own styles gives you more flexibility in diverse or fast-changing environments but is generally more challenging to realize.

Strategy 99

Strategy Automotive eBook Environment 99

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

Last week, Joann Lublin reported in The Wall Street Journal that more CEO jobs are going to internal candidates. According to her story, a survey by executive-search firm Spencer Stuart found that about four out of five S&P 500 companies that chose a new CEO last year promoted insiders. That is good news for the companies involved.

CEO 8

CEO Automotive Survey Middle Management 8

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

For example, if you asked Larry Page, CEO of Google, to define his company, do you think his answer would be, “We’re a search engine”? It’s the most simple and straightforward reply to the question. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. Not very likely.

How To 100

How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s partners eventually sold Tesla Electric Light Company’s patents to George Westinghouse, CEO of the Westinghouse Electric Company. says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). “I He was reclusive and kept rigid habits (he worked each day from 9 a.m. According to one Tesla biography, “Tesla was a visionary.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. Western CEOs can create challenges for global R&D teams by introducing artificial constraints that foster a sense of urgency and healthy rivalry that can lead to frugal solutions.

CEO 15

CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator. Doing so can expand business-civic-social ecosystems in "win more, win more" ways for all stakeholders.

CEO 11

CEO Creativity Automotive Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Why would the CEO of a huge corporation with vast capabilities need to look elsewhere for assistance? If outside help is truly needed, doesn’t that say something pretty negative about the CEO’s own staff and existing supply chain? Outside the organization? Finally, they tend to have an eye for networks of networks.

CEO 8

CEO Supply Chain Automotive Engineering 8

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. The late Bill McCowan, MCI’s former Chairman and CEO, did “his best to ban. Diligence that nurtures strength makes a difference. PERSEVERANCE.

Waterman 140

Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

David Komlos is CEO of Syntegrity and David Bejamin leads Syntegrity’s client delivery organization. Fixing a car is complicated; disrupting the automotive industry is complex. That’s why I was interested to see how David Komlos and David Benjamin tackled the subject. ” -John Maeda. 10 Steps to Solving Complexity.

Sull 71

Sull How To Insourcing Sharpe 71

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Weatherhead is the author of The Power Of Adversity and chairman and CEO of Weatherchem, a private manufacturer of plastic closures for food, spice, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products. Filed under: Integrity , Leadership , Purpose , Team Building , Trust Tagged: | Albert J.

Committee 140

Committee Automotive Ethics Productivity 140

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The analysis, which focuses on global companies, looked at CEOs’ approval ratings among staff; the ratio of women to men on the board; frequency of complaints; the companies’ performance on social networks; and the impact of controversy such as ethical lapses, scandals, and fines — among other metrics. Automotive.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Deming Institute

JUNE 1, 2015

Louis Altazan, President of AGCO Automotive Corporation discusses the success AGCO has had applying Deming’s management system to their service organization (car repair). Listen to the podcast. Auto repair is basically finding root cause. If you don’t find the root cause, the problem is going to come back.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care Company Management 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Think about the disruption being caused by electric and autonomous cars in automotive; by regulatory challenges in banking; by shale resources in oil and gas; and by a groundswell of public dissatisfaction in political institutions, to name just a few. But that would be a mistake.

Succession 12

Succession Benchmarking Automotive McKinsey 12

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. The late Bill McCowan, MCI''s former Chairman and CEO, did "his best to ban. Diligence that nurtures strength makes a difference. standard procedures and practices."

Waterman 56

Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

Recently, the CEO of Deutsche Bank predicted that half of its 97,000 employees could be replaced by robots. Recently, space and automotive titan Elon Musk said the machine-over-mankind threat was humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” Few industries, if any, will be untouched. Knowledge workers will not escape.

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

CEO Kevin Systrom stepped back and cut out the clutter, paring it down into something people could understand and use inside 30 seconds. Most people aren't aware that the first iteration of Instagram, the simple and fun photo-sharing mobile app, was a bloated and feature-laden app called Burbn.

Innovation 16

Innovation Self-aware Automotive Trends 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

The American automotive industry looked rock-solid. Robert Pearl, CEO of Permanante Medical Group and a clinical professor of surgery at Stanford University put it well : “Ask most Americans about obtaining their health care outside of the United States, and they respond with disdain and negativity. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

Health Care 15

Health Care System Innovation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

’’ As inspiring as those words may have been, Henry, the patriarch of a successful automotive parts business, wasn’t simply freeing his children to follow their dreams. Too often, owners focus on only one role for their next generation: the future CEO. He was requiring it. But that’s too narrow a view.

Company 11

Company Long-term Short-term Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

manufacturing industries, including aerospace and defense equipment, chemicals, industrial components, automotive equipment, and electronics. The CEO of a manufacturer in the automotive industry added: “We hesitate to put a component or product that requires high, stringent control in many developing countries.”

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

But when some CEOs in this position look at the people they employ, they discover a problem: a swath of their existing team doesn’t have the necessary skills or metabolism for change to meet the new challenges. CEO Stefan Jacoby and CHRO Björn Sällström rigorously examined Volvo’s existing workforce.

Engineering 8

Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under private equity investment, the CEO—formerly the top decision maker in the company—has to answer to the representative assigned by the private equity firm. During the global financial crisis, Robert Remenar, CEO of Nexteer, a Michigan-based automotive steering firm, deliberately searched for potential new Chinese owners.

Automotive 8

Automotive Long-term Operations Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Our publicly available metrics including CEO approval ratings from staff, ratio of women on boards, and number of accounting infractions and scandals. CEO Michael O’Leary said , infamously, “If I’d only known being nice to customers was going to work so well, I’d have started many years ago.” billion ($1.39

Company 8

Company Ethics Automotive Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For example, a large automotive parts company had just completed a merger, and the senior team — made up of leaders from both firms — struggled with making decisions. They either took too long to decide, or the decisions just didn't stick. They either took too long to decide, or the decisions just didn't stick.

Parcell 14

Parcell Consensus Automotive Organizational Behavior 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Jamie Dimon is still CEO of JP Morgan Chase, despite financial controversies and big legal settlements of the kind that toppled CEOs of other banks; he has guided the cleanup process, apparently effectively. Tony Hayward had to step down as BP CEO after the explosion and oil spill in the U.S.

Crisis 8

Crisis Automotive Crisis Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In a June 12 th blog post that made instant waves, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla Motors, declared: “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.” Traditional automakers define themselves by their role within the automotive industry.

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

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. From the top down, CEOs should: Rebrand the company's future: The CEO should use his position as a classic bully pulpit. The lesson is clear.

Chief Technology Officer 13

Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13