Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

There is one best way to get big projects done. The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. Those left out of that early process delayed the project for years. Enter a coalition.

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Project Transportation Construction Automotive 8

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. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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. We tend to project onto others our way of seeing the world. Ours did; over 700 did not.) We were thriving, but just one overnight letter away from losing that whole business.

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

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.

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Trends Automotive Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Andreas Nettstäter, who leads European research projects at the Fraunhofer Institute of Material Flow and Logistics (IML), says a new Fraunhofer initiative called Smartface Consortium is tackling this challenge. Adaptive Robots Update Construction Projects in Real Time.

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Process Automotive Chief Technology Officer Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2012

They're bad at innovation by design: All the pressures and processes that drive them toward a profitable, efficient operation tend to get in the way of developing the innovations that can actually transform the business. How do you avoid wasting millions, if not billions, on projects destined for failure? Would Gerber own today's V8?

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Innovation Company ROI Disruptive Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

In this new operating environment, I find more and more multinationals looking to new frontier markets for growth while demanding profitability from their emerging-market operations. Nigeria’s automotive industry is booming, as international car makers are expanding their dealerships and setting up local assembly plants.

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Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

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

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Supply Chain Incentives Policies Automotive 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Companies like Rolls Royce can, therefore, offer outcome deals where they guarantee customer outcomes (examples: zero downtime, higher speed, more fuel efficiency, zero operator error, greater reliability) and share risks and rewards with customers. The Challenges for Industrial Giants. ” But it won’t be easy for them, either.

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Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. In some industries, 3D printing is projected to reach the mainstream in three to ten years. Are there operations you would shed? 3D printing is poised to redefine global manufacturing and distribution.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

They view the process of collecting direct and more frequent feedback from these stakeholders as the first step in supporting sales representatives, account managers, operations teams and service agents in solving customers’ problems and earning more of their business. How is this different from relying on anecdote and myth?

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B2B Automotive Engineering Report 8

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.

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McKinsey CEO Participative Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

For example, a company that sells housing components like kitchen counters and piping should look at the rate of new home construction or mortgage activity, while automotive companies should look at the percentage of young adults forgoing driver’s licenses. But this is not cause for alarm.

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2016

automotive, financial services, retail, telecomm, and hospitality sectors. They can also share additional feedback or volunteer for projects. The research included interviews with more than 25 customer experience and HR executives and a survey of 1,000 frontline employees working at large companies in the U.S.

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Survey Retail System Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions. 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.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Pipp’s documentation of the striking difference in the assembly process within Toyota, by comparison to Ford, was to be found again in the early 1980s when teams from both Ford and General Motors began to routinely visit Toyota’s operations in Japan. .

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System Productivity Products Deming 74

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.

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Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. Disney executives formed an exploratory team to reinvent the vacation experience, known as the Next Generation Experience project.

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Software Company Airlines Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the Thailand floods of November 2011, both the hard-drive industry and the automotive sector experienced serious supply chain problems. Smart companies will be examining supply chains and operations very closely for risks associated with water shortages, floods, storms, and resource constraints.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

and Canada and more than 7 million vehicles a year traverse the Ambassador bridge, according to the Public Border Operators Assn. million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. The project would generate 10,000 construction jobs, the Michigan Transportation Dept.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

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. Pilot projects with startups and corporate leaders are known to move so slowly that they drain the resources of the startups that they were meant to scale. How do we get there?

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Innovation Productivity Products Venture Capitalist 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Yet a recent report by Amnesty International uncovered a number of cases of child labor among suppliers linked to major technology companies, including Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft, as well as to several automotive manufactures, such as Volkswagen and Daimler AG.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Ethics Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

The project demanded rethinking the entire concept of what automotive luxury performance meant. To illustrate how intentional goal conflict can product breakthroughs, consider these. two examples of innovation — one product, one process — drawn from the annals of innovation at Toyota: 1. Product Innovation: The Lexus.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Productivity Products Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The first innovation project, Care in Place, focused on patients over 65 years old. A team of engineers, designers, operations specialists, and clinicians was assembled and led by an experienced, well-respected physician “chief engineer” whose vision for the future of care was disruptive. The results have been remarkable.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance P&L 8