The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The number of industrial robots in operation around the world has grown rapidly in recent years, but nowhere more so than in China, where some 30% of the world’s robots are in operation. This set the goal of producing 100,000 industrial robots per year by 2020.

Automotive 73

Automotive Banking Industry Information Technology 73

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

“However, the goal of using data to improve the NHS and social care is hampered by a “talent gap” – a lack of personnel with data analytical skills – that stands in the way of uncovering the rich insights expected to reside in the NHS’ own data.” ” Developing the skills.

Skills 87

Skills Report Technology Long-term 87

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

.” An increasing number of companies — particularly in the auto industry — are heeding that call, setting aggressive, creative, and visionary goals that change their approach to business and how they relate to the wider world. Nissan is not alone in setting big goals. But it’s also very good for the business.

Goal 8

Goal Transportation Automotive COO 8

Deming Institute

AUGUST 28, 2017

From aerospace procurement to the automotive and biomedical industries, extending to the construction industry and healthcare, quality is almost universally defined according to a tradition of “conformance to requirements” for each element of the system, a system of managing “interchangeable components” which dates back at least 200 years.

System 31

System Supply Chain Letter Automotive 31

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Keith Ferrazzi – Addresses behaviors that block the achievement of strategic goals. Former CEOs / Advisors.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

In our international operations, we introduced a three-year sales planning process to get beyond the 90-day mentality of 'How will I make my number this quarter?'" Here's how the best trend hunters operate. However, its orders were actually tied to the number of new automotive projects (e.g. Tie insights to operations.

Trends 15

Trends Automotive Short-term Long-term 15

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. I don’t try to mislead others or deliberately cause injury to someone for my gain, so I simply assumed everyone else would operate that way in business. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

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. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.

COO 12

COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 12

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. Show them that if they individually ask for conflicting goals from the board, their power as owners will dissipate. Give them room to operate.

Company 11

Company Long-term Short-term Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

Recently, space and automotive titan Elon Musk said the machine-over-mankind threat was humanity’s “biggest existential threat.” ” Computers are great at optimizing, but not so great at goal-setting. Sponsored by SAS. Assessing the opportunities and the potential pitfalls. Or even using common sense.

Creativity 15

Creativity Strategy Venture Capitalist McKinsey 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

based companies are repatriating their manufacturing capabilities — moving some production operations back from overseas. The reality, however, is that less and less of that demand is being filled by stateside manufacturing operations. In the automotive industry, for example, the U.S. A growing number of executives of U.S.-based

Supply Chain 14

Supply Chain Incentives Policies Automotive 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 2013, we created a global Social Media Center of Expertise (CoE), staffed by about 600 people in five regions from the marketing, communications, and customer care teams, with the goal of enhancing the company’s market-based decision making (part of CEO Mary Barra’s mantra of earning customers for life ). Insight Center.

Media 8

Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

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. But one angle that hasn't yet been covered is the brand-inspired cultural revolution he led inside the organization.

Brand 193

Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Industrial robots used to be big, unwieldy, and dangerous, but new “human-safe” robots are now commonplace on automotive lines, working right next to people. Operations in a Connected World. Yet these robots are awkward coworkers; they coexist with us but do not meaningfully collaborate. Insight Center.

Learning-by-Doing 9

Learning-by-Doing Health Care Efficiency Automotive 9

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. economy. .”

Transportation 8

Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Companies based in developed economies can learn much from the Mars mission about competing and operating in emerging markets: Create an audacious, inspiring goal. The most well-known example of such highly ambitious goals is probably John F. The starting point for such innovations is a big idea, a big dream.

Innovation 9

Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Your goal is success. Write the blog posts that help customers help themselves such as “How to do X-common-goal in our app,” or “How to set up x feature” Bonus: these articles will make your sales people very happy. Consider hiring a “customer operations” person to focus on automation full-time.

Metrics 14

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. The goal is create a common platform, “an open ecosystem for the open road,” the alliance website proclaims. With a similar goal, the U.S.

Project 8

Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

So when we faced such a challenge at Lear Corporation, a Fortune 200 automotive supplier with 136,000 employees worldwide, we knew the odds were against us. Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We still need strong operational results if we are going to stay competitive.

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? When Tough Performance Goals Lead to Cheating. This ensures that the entire workforce is focused on longer-term sustainable goals.

Ethics 11

Ethics Company Emotional Intelligence Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Donald Gogel, the chairman and CEO of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, explains that “our board members can operate like a highly effective search firm. Another way to enhance board engagement is to assign directors specific operational areas to engage on. Case in point: directors who tap their networks to source new hires.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Creating transparency into its operations is the starting point for marketing to help CFOs understand where and how value is being gained or lost, which makes budgeting discussions much more productive. Together with the CFO, the CMO must develop a set of objectives that directly deliver on financial objectives and business goals.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors. In our interviews, we learned that a handful of companies are using feedback to create specific action plans tied to companies’ broader goals. Linking feedback systems allows companies to enlist frontline employees as agents of change.

Survey 8

Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

To get everyone to agree on a realistic goal, we suggest picking a year far enough in the future that people feel safe discussing what needs to happen by that time but not so far away that uncertainty about technological or market developments would render a discussion meaningless. Setting the growth target.

Innovation 9

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

And the sheer complexity of building cars also plays a role — David Cole, the former head of the Center for Automotive Research (and son of a former GM president), insists that this is really what’s behind the ignition switch error and why it was so hard for the company to get to the bottom of the problem. .”

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

All kinds of companies had failed at operational flexibility. There were companies in a wide range of industries, from automotive and industrial equipment manufacturers to oil and gas majors. The third trait that many masters share is the use of flexible plant designs and multiskilled, or cross-trained, machine operators.

Automotive 8

Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Apex Automotive was a Taiwanese company that might generously be termed third tier. Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation. "But we play in the real world. We can't be afraid to mix it up with a big Chinese customer like Blue Sky. Remember, before we had this deal, we had no one.". "We We had Apex.". Lin scoffed.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. Digital startups had begun producing virtual products that ZF did not know how to compete against, and engineers in logistics, operations, and other functions were finding that their traditional approaches couldn’t handle the complex issues they faced.

Company 10

Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, Real Madrid had a lofty goal in mind: to thrill its supporters by allowing them to participate in unbelievable experiences. For this to happen, dozens of sources of data needed to be brought together into a “data estate” that aligned to Real Madrid’s new goals.

Sports 8

Sports Brand Content Industry 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

We currently operate in the era of ‘programmatic computing’, where data analysis involves heuristically searching for patterns in limited data sets, then performing operations on the result. while 80% of the world’s information is this unstructured digital exhaust.

Positioning 150

Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

We often observe a wide-ranging set of initiatives and investments operating independently, and in some cases, even competitively. The grow-at-all-costs, move-fast-and-break-things mentality lauded in Silicon Valley can put lives at stake in the healthcare or automotive industries. Such collaboration can take many shapes.

Innovation 13

Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

I''ve written before about the science that helps explain why and how constraints and limits, often in the form of intelligent, well-set stretch goals, result in more creative solutions. Too often, though, managers set what appears to be a good stretch goal, only to discover that it did not produce the hoped-for innovative thinking.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Productivity Products Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Seeing how Atrius orchestrated the transition from being a fee-for-service provider to one that predominantly relies on value-based payment can benefit others pursuing the same goal. Instead of incrementally improving processes, the goal became replacing them and creating whole new care models. The results have been remarkable.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8