Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. Data-Driven Marketing.

Automotive 8

Automotive Brand Technology White Paper 8

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 15, 2022

Across retail, automotive, financial services, and technology a number of common factors emerged that underpinned the ability of companies to weather the Covid storm. For instance, the most successful companies were able to move more decisively when both exploring and exploiting new opportunities.

Company 99

Company Hofstede Supply Chain Agility 99

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2020

As soon as staff realize this, morale may drop, and that can affect output and productivity, too. The changes in the automotive industry are massive. Automated cars may be experiencing a few snags right now, but there’s no doubt the technology will be on the market in the future. 21st Century Practices.

Automotive 69

Automotive Short-term Brand Self-aware 69

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That we’re still largely waiting for such an immersive world to take hold, despite much-hyped initiatives, such as Second Life, perhaps underlines the difficulties the technology has had in keeping pace with such a vision. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 It’s a market that is already worth $3.1

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Stephenson Wireless Christensen Automotive 85

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

That may have been the way Google started out, and search is undoubtedly still at the core of Google’s business model, but judging from the company’s diverse and rapidly widening portfolio of products, services, and interests, Page would appear to view Google much more broadly. This is the essential point. Jeff Bezos gets this, too.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. 5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). Innovation Capital. I think ideas come from everywhere. Elon Musk.

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

” is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2015

This means advancing from simply overlaying digital functionality on existing offerings to learning the customer context via connected products and services and adapting them to meet customer needs. This exchange will result in the adaptation of products and services across organizational boundaries to meet customer needs.

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Productivity Products Automotive Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

Tesla, Elon Musk’s automotive start-up, is having a very good year. But is its automotive business a disruptor, poised to transform the entire transportation sector? In September, the company expects to begin shipping its all-electric Model 3 to non-employee customers, who have already logged 500,000 pre-orders.

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Supply Chain Automotive Disruptive Innovation Transportation 11

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Through a myriad of questions our knowledge increases and we begin to play “what ifs” with potential customers as product solutions appear in our mind.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

Nearly 30 years ago, in 1987, the Nobel-winning economist Robert Solow surveyed the impact of IT on the economy and concluded that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Why did an observed technology boom coincide with a prolonged slump in the productivity data?

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Productivity Products Cost GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Given how central automotive transportation is to our cities, commerce, and daily lives, saying that AI will change life as we know it is no understatement. Self-driving capabilities can boost safety and driver productivity. Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed. Of the large markets, the U.S., Automotive OEMs.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Many British firms have been slow to recognize the direct correlation between corporate empathy and growth and productivity. Technology.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The automotive industry has opened up again. Up until the late 1950’s, anyone interested in sending bulk product across the globe placed that product in 60-pound burlap sacks, sent those to the docks, and entrusted longshoremen to tuck them efficiently into nooks and crannies in the hulls of merchant vessels.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

In the tech startup world, technology is important for success, but it does not disproportionately determine winners and losers. Two companies can invent similar technologies; one will win and the other will lose. Focusing on technology supremacy alone is a model for failure. For centuries, the Gross World Product was flat.

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Licensing Software Automotive Incubator 16

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Indeed, a diligent commitment to improving their already powerful position is what makes the Japanese a formidable competitor in the electronic and automotive industries. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. How technology is changing the way we work. But where and how do you start? Insight Center.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Tesla’s Powerwall storage system is not a radical innovation, and it is not the first battery for energy storage on the market. But, as Elon Musk surely understands, it is not always the best technology that wins the innovation race. Powerwall therefore has all the characteristics needed to succeed in this market.

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Price Energy Technology Automotive 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.” Why would the leading company in EVs voluntarily open up its technology to competitors?

Automotive 9

Automotive Industry Disruptive Innovation Open-book 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

Many of our current economic measurements saw their birth in the Industrial Age when the companies that were growing and shaping the world were giants with big physical plants and lots of material products — companies like Exxon Mobile and GE. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.

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Industry Company Business Model Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk’s compensation plan, which will give him close to $56 billion in stock and awards if Tesla’s market cap reaches $650 billion, is designed to communicate a particular value proposition to Wall Street. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Western multinationals — especially the most successful ones — consistently struggle to achieve their growth targets in emerging markets. Because they try to repeat their past success formulas — the ones that work so well for them in developed markets. Rich countries are the most technologically advanced.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". Apex Automotive was a Taiwanese company that might generously be termed third tier. We had Apex.". Lin scoffed.

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Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Carmakers have started using 3D technology to produce parts. Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. The technology is expected to lead to reductions in the cost of employment, capital investment, shipping and inventory as well.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Gulf Coast, an announcement by Flextronics of plans to create a $32 million product innovation center in Silicon Valley, and a decision by Airbus to build a $600 million assembly line in Alabama for its jetliners. particularly in emerging markets, for many of the same reasons. from China and elsewhere. To help remedy this, L.E.K.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

And under Ghosn's leadership , Renault-Nissan has proactively embraced frugal engineering and become one of the world's leading producers of both electric cars as well as low-cost vehicles — two of the fastest growing and most promising market segments in the global automotive sector. Yet engineers and scientists love challenges.

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

While Gordon’s argument is often characterized as being the opposite of the one I have made in my two books about the impact of advancing automation technology on the job market (most recently, Rise of the Robots ), there are many areas in which I think we would agree. Insight Center. The Global Digital Economy.

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Gordon Transportation Tourism Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

There is a major trend in the design of physical products. Co-creation involves giving customers the right to participate in the design of their own experience, not only by giving input about what they like and don't like as in traditional market research but also by giving them tools that allow them to become actual designers.

Engineering 13

Engineering Automotive Objective Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Traditionally, antitrust regulation has looked for whether a merger increased or decreased competition in a particular market. In the case of Baker Hughes and Halliburton’s planned merger a few years ago, the Justice Department detailed how it thought the amount of competition would rise or fall (mostly fall) in 30 market segments.

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Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

There are three types of products today. Type 2: These are once-analog products that have now been converted into digital products, such as photography, books, and music. These products are typically sold as a service via digital distribution platforms (Audible.com for books, Spotify for music, Netflix for movies).

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Consumers in the United States are used to buying products that are made in China. and other developed markets? During the global financial crisis, Robert Remenar, CEO of Nexteer, a Michigan-based automotive steering firm, deliberately searched for potential new Chinese owners. But what happens when China goes West? In the U.S.,

Automotive 8

Automotive Long-term Operations Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Indian engineers cost less, for sure.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It says that markets determine wages, and any social or political tampering just creates inefficiency. In the 1990s, a whole subfield of economics reached "virtually unanimous agreement," as a survey in the Journal of Economic Perspectives noted , that in the context of technological change, markets themselves inevitably drove U.S.

Automotive 10

Automotive Lean Production Marketing Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

In the 1950's, the American market was quite small and dominated by entrenched players such as Harley Davidson, Indian, and imports like Triumph and Moto Guzzi. Further, Japanese products with funny names were looked upon suspiciously by American consumers, much as Chinese ones are today. and scope out the market.

Strategy 15

Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2015

Yet compared to great technological inventions of the past, it is also a colossal economic disappointment. The technologies of the past had massive new job creation effects that swamped displacement effects. Consider the integrated circuit, which first appeared on the market in 1961. I’m talking about jobs.

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Retail Automotive Efficiency Engineering 8