Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Apple demonstrably understands design, UX, and global supply chain alignment in ways few organizations ever have. According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. Apple’s cash hoard currently tops $175 billion.

Automotive 8

Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Third, as a result of strong performances by worker- and employee-owned companies, it is becoming easier for workers to overcome arguably the biggest hurdle to worker buyouts: financing. One area that seems ripe for this is in the arena of connected and autonomous mobility systems in the automotive and aerospace industries.

ESOP 9

ESOP Company Cooper IAM 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

The American automotive industry looked rock-solid. In every one of these cases, global competition changed the game forever. HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Tim Robberts/Getty Images.

Health Care 13

Health Care System Innovation Price 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We have Waze for traffic navigation and congestion; why not a Waze for automotive emissions and pollution? Yes, a Fortune 500 company could still deliberately choose to run a multi-billion dollar global fraud. What was unthinkable — let alone impractical — a decade ago is conventional wisdom today.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Automotive NGO Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. 3D printing is poised to redefine global manufacturing and distribution. And last year saw the first demonstration of a digital printer producing multilayer, standards-based circuit boards.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. With automotive analysts forecasting major changes ahead in mobility, they began to think that the firm needed a dedicated lab that focused entirely on data challenges. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.

Company 8

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 8

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. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups. This can be corrected.

Innovation 8

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

While consumer spending has proven resilient, with same-store retail sales rising 6% YOY in April , most multinational corporations are developing contingency plans to mitigate risks to their businesses and reassessing the country’s role in their global market portfolio and supply chains. Renegotiating NAFTA.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

When last year's massive earthquake hit Japan, the effect on electronics production was severe, and it also resulted in extended business disruptions for many in the automotive industry. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. For instance, at one automotive company, the CMO and CFO worked together with their teams to draw up a global set of financial and non-financial metrics for the short and long term. Finance Marketing'

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

As global innovators, however, they share a remarkable core value and best practice: they invest in the innovative capabilities of their suppliers. These investments are more about the development of human capital than finance. In terms of people, processes and technologies, Toyota and Google's YouTube have little in common.

Innovation 8

Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Like many of the Big Bang Disruptors we track, drones are piggybacking off the smartphone revolution, which has built efficient global markets for increasingly cheap off-the shelf cameras, processors, gyroscopes, accelerometers, and software that can be embedded in UAS. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.). Both the U.K.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. 3 globally). Today, it is occurring at the level of ecosystems. The Internet of Things is a good example of this change. By 2005, Kodak ranked No.

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8