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Will China Bring Your Firm New Owners, Partners, or Competitors?

Harvard Business Review

But Chinese companies of all sizes are already operating in the U.S. 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. in a big way.

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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

For Westerners at least, our working cultural definition owes a lot to robots in stories and film, as well as real-life robots past and present. By 1973, there were 3,000 industrial robots in operation. Form-factors, intelligence, and the purpose of robots can all vary significantly. How is this so? By 2003, there were 800,000.

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If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In

Harvard Business Review

The reason we wanted to do it separate is because, you have to realize that we needed to give them the flexibility and the operating structure to be able to be competitive with other technology and mobility services companies that move really fast. Because, guess what, a lot of these services, they need vehicles.

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Technologies Your Business Really Can’t Afford Not To Embrace

Strategy Driven

Whatever the nature of your business, there are certain technologies that are slowly and quietly but consistently revolutionizing the ways in which businesses operate and the tech savvy business can either get in on the ground floor or face the combined impediments of increased running costs, lower output and reduced productivity.

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Tomorrow’s Factories Will Need Better Processes, Not Just Better Robots

Harvard Business Review

When people think of the automotive Factory of the Future, the first word that comes to mind is automation. But the reality is that any major leap forward on cost and efficiency will no longer be possible through automation alone, since most of the tasks that can be automated in an automotive factory have already been tackled.