Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Guest post from John R Childress: In 1965, when I was a junior in high school and sporty, stylish and innovative cars were all the rage, Ralph Nader, a Harvard trained lawyer, published a book that was both highly controversial and highly influential.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 8, 2019

The researchers simulated a number of processes from a production logistics facility used in industries such as automotive and engineering. Recent research from the universities of Göttingen, Duisburg-Essen and Trier provides a timely reminder that most robots still perform best when paired up with a human being.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2020

The average sale price for a new engine in the US is around $35,000 , and used cars aren’t much cheaper. The changes in the automotive industry are massive. By partnering with manufacturers such as these, you can piggyback off their innovation. Alternatively, you can be transparent about the fees from the outset.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 9, 2019

A recent paper published in the International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management aims to shatter some of these myths and analyze both where we currently are with the technology, and where we might go next. Decreased noise nuisance – CAVs will have more noiseless engines and drive unobtrusively.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

When people talk about the jobs that are likely to be automated in the coming years, trucking is one of the most common to be cited, with innovations by companies like Otto used to exemplify the risk drivers face. It’s a risk that a new study suggests is significantly overblown, and the authors provide three reasons why this is so.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. Not very likely.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Sam Walsh: I graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Melbourne University and started my career in the Automotive Industry at General Motors in Australia in 1972. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Product designers and engineers worked on creating a filtration system that was affordable and easily transportable. I would rediscover this when I joined the leadership team of The Grappone Automotive Group in 2012. They came upon this train depot that looked just like a home, and the name just came to them!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, famously coined the term "frugal engineering" in 2006. He was impressed by Indian engineers' ability to innovate cost-effectively and quickly under severe resource constraints. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence? So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

ISRO’s success is best characterized as frugal engineering. Indian engineers cost less, for sure. Converting these non-consumers into consumers will require breakthrough innovations — quality products at affordable prices. The starting point for such innovations is a big idea, a big dream. This is a serious mistake.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

As well as boosting the digital skills of traditional clinical staff, the report also highlights the likely growth in new roles across the healthcare sector, including data scientists, AI engineers and data governance experts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

How much does your company need to invest in innovation? That might be three to five years in a relatively fast-moving business like media, but 20 years for aircrafts or jet engines. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

In the automotive industry, another project I was a part of helped executives understand that the internal combustion engine is in decline and that the future will likely involve a new, challenging mix of electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and ride-hailing like Uber or Lyft.

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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. But let's take a step back and consider the nature of the controversy, which I think is rooted in the way many inventors approach innovation.

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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. So innovation and learning will move from rich countries to poor countries. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

It is the gradual opening up of the lab and the engineering department to co-creation with customers and other parties. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

If they had doggedly followed this idea, things could just as easily have turned sour and today Honda would be just a footnote in automotive history. As it turns out, even Honda's larger bikes were not robust enough for American riders and they started having engine failures. Instead Honda stayed open and entrepreneurial.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

To create the conditions that support innovation, leaders need to build connections across companies, industries, and sectors. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. Engineering innovations lowered the cost.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

An aircraft engine is unlikely to become a purely digital product any time soon! We don’t expect Amazon or Microsoft or IBM to design, make, and market agricultural tractors, aircraft engines, or MR scanners. Companies like Rolls Royce design and manufacture jet engines. The answer is “yes.” Not, really.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2015

In more and more businesses, physical objects are no longer the primary basis for innovation and differentiation. They come second to innovations in computer code. With electric power steering you draw power from the engine only when you need it, not constantly as with a belt-driven hydraulic pump.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Science and engineering professionals work closely with experienced technicians to produce next-generation batteries, not forged metal. Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. But just as U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. In a two-part event, employees in WorldJam 2004 first brainstormed solutions to increase growth and innovation, resulting in 191 pragmatic ideas. A year later, IBM used a jam to bring its new values to life.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

The reality today is that businesses, governments, and nonprofits are so complex and often must move so quickly that in many cases, finding answers to difficult questions requires tapping experts, service providers, and innovators scattered all over the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

Universities like Stanford, Caltech, and UC Berkeley continue to churn out the next generation of founders and engineers. But our company makes software that is used across dozens of industry verticals — automotive, health care, hospitality, and the public sector — each with their own specific needs and goals.

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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). For decades aircraft engine manufacturers focused on unit sales. For years, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Platforms of engagement, based on human experiences, are the new loci of value creation and therefore the new engines of capitalism. There are many examples of crowdsourcing, open innovation, and new business models that tap into the creativity of people from anywhere in the world today.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

We know that GM or Toyota cannot just close down production of gasoline engine cars and transform themselves into Tesla. They deliberately separate out innovation units that are charged with disrupting the status quo from those parts of the business that focus on leading in core markets. They consistently reinvent themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

Automotive telematics can capture metrics such as the frequency and length of trips and unsafe driving behaviors like hard braking and rapid acceleration. The third is product creation and delivery, which combines a tailored mix of engineering, product management, data sciences, traditional engineering ops, design, and economics resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Graetz and Michaels calculate, for example, that robotics have of late increased labor productivity by about 0.35% annually — or by about the same amount as did the steam engine, a classic example of a GPT, during the years 1850 to 1910. of overall growth in Europe, the U.S., and Japan between 1995 and 2005.

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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. We have identified four principles with straightforward steps that policymakers, business leaders, and universities can take to restore innovation ecosystems.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

What follows describes how German manufacturers in particular are rewriting the rules for industry globally on several fronts: Idea to production : It used to be that every new car model required 20 extra hours of work driven by quality issues or purely unplanned changes that its designers and engineers required.

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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. Pratt & Whitney has partnered with IBM to enhance its engine management offering. Consider GE. It is a digital pioneer, actively reinventing itself.

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