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CMI Highlights – 1 November

Chartered Management Institute

Last week, a team at the Centre for Brexit Studies made the case for quality management and leadership driving innovation and productivity in the West Midlands’ automotive sector. Share what these new insights mean for you and your industry. CMI members always see more.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Newsletters and town hall meetings are slow and ineffective in global organizations. Power ranks Ford the highest in initial quality among non-luxury automotive brands. In most organizations, front line workers don't have a mechanism to submit suggestions up the hierarchy, and the few that do have flawed suggestion systems.

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The Sharing Economy Isn’t About Sharing at All

Harvard Business Review

It has disrupted mature industries, such as hotels and automotives, by providing consumers with convenient and cost efficient access to resources without the financial, emotional, or social burdens of ownership. The sharing economy has been widely hailed as a major growth sector, by sources ranging from Fortune magazine to President Obama.