Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Funny story: Arthur told me how the Buckleys were traveling to New York from their home in Pennsylvania when they thought up “Home Depot.” I would rediscover this when I joined the leadership team of The Grappone Automotive Group in 2012. They came upon this train depot that looked just like a home, and the name just came to them!

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Leadership Automotive System Motivation 95

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Forward thinkers engage in mental time travel to imagine the future and see opportunities to create new value for customers. Kindle, Alexa) and even rocket technologies (his company Blue Origin competes with SpaceX for space travel). What can others do to emulate the most innovative leaders? This practice is a choice and a habit.

Innovation 80

Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Automotive. Automotive. Travel & Tourism. Travel & Tourism. Travel & Tourism. Automotive. Travel & Tourism. Automotive. Automotive. Travel & Tourism. Automotive. Automotive. Automotive. Automotive. Technology. Tesla Motor.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The automotive industry has opened up again. For a little bit of context, I’d recommend traveling back in time 50 years and looking at an entirely orthogonal industry: shipping. For automotive companies, my intuition is that this might become the hardest shift to deal with. With Apple’s entry, it’s clear.

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Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

The American automotive industry looked rock-solid. Even with zero copays and deductibles and free travel for the patient and a chaperone for 1-2 weeks, insurers would save a lot of money. Tim Robberts/Getty Images. There was a time when the American steel industry seemed invincible. megawat solar farm. health care.

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Health Care System Innovation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Reflecting on the achievement, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked : “India had travelled through space to Mars at a cost of 7 cents per kilometer, much cheaper than travelling a kilometer in Ahmedabad,” Gujarat’s biggest city from which Narendra Modi hails. ISRO’s success is best characterized as frugal engineering.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2015

Robots have been doing tough jobs for over half a century, mostly in the automotive sector, but they’ve probably had a bigger impact in Hollywood movies than on factory floors. Some of them are no longer bolted to the factory floor, and they’re moving beyond automotive manufacturing. That’s about to change.

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Automotive Operations Engineering System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Honda believed that the company's larger bikes were their best bet given the incumbent machines and the longer distances Americans must travel compared to Japanese. If they had doggedly followed this idea, things could just as easily have turned sour and today Honda would be just a footnote in automotive history.

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Strategy Automotive Short-term Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Think of the millions of solid middle-class jobs created by the rise of the automotive industry: manufacturing, driving, repairing, fueling, and insuring cars and trucks (and even washing them, too). What if you could beam over to Paris for dinner, and then travel back home immediately afterward? Would other jobs be created?

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Gordon Transportation Tourism Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

For instance, when Henry Ford disrupted the automotive world by building a company that used process assembly at scale to drive down cost, he abandoned the industry held belief that variety was important. It has the potential to begin disrupting the travel and entertainment markets and become a pillar of the high-end gaming industry.

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Disruptive Innovation Automotive Software Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

The Open Automotive Alliance that Google launched this week is a reminder that twenty-first-century deals don’t always look like the M&A of old. Big mergers in other industries have also been costly — DaimlerChrysler , AOL-Time Warner , Boston Scientific-Guidant , and Citicorp-Travelers , to name a few.

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Restructuring Trends Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Incumbents may also strike deals to cope with disruption, as when today’s automotive companies invest in car-sharing services and autonomous vehicle technology. Some airline partnerships have gotten this immunity on the argument that their particular travel markets will remain competitive even with their cooperation.

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Company Supply Chain Cooper Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

To name some obvious examples, eBay, Google, Amazon, and Orbitz have each in their own way reversed traditional requirements that the customer travel – to a garage sale, library, bookstore, or travel agency – to obtain a good or service. Today, information and communications technologies remove the need for such proxies.

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Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Like air travel, enterprise networks play host to millions of “passengers” each day, in the form of information packets. Companies enforce rules such as “Watch for multiple failed login attempts” to reduce the odds of being compromised.

Company 8

Company Airlines Automotive Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

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.

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Competitive Advantage Hotels Short-term Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Digital natives have already disrupted industries such as media, publishing, travel, music, and photography. Since electrification and driverless cars go together, other tech companies such as Google, Baidu, Apple, and Lyft will also be able to enter the automotive market. Ford or Tesla?

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 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. When ash clouds from the Icelandic volcano darkened the skies over Europe, planes were grounded, interrupting business travel and disrupting air freight.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2015

Automotive firms develop concept cars. Nick Bloom of Stanford University and his colleagues conducted a randomized experiment on working from home using a NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency called CTrip, which has 16,000 employees. After all, companies seem well-versed in running all sorts of other experiments.

Company 8

Company Policies Attrition Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Networked smart vehicles, for example, can safely travel much closer together — a technique known as platooning. At the dawn of the first automotive age, laws were passed in some areas that required a person carrying a red flag to warn people that a “horseless carriage” was coming.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Research and computer modeling conducted by Accenture in collaboration with the Stevens Institute of Technology indicates that as many as 23 million fully autonomous vehicles will be traveling U.S. highways by 2035 (out of about 250 million total cars and trucks registered in the U.S.).

Insurance 10

Insurance Software Business Model Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

When people think of the automotive Factory of the Future, the first word that comes to mind is automation. But the reality is that any major leap forward on cost and efficiency will no longer be possible through automation alone, since most of the tasks that can be automated in an automotive factory have already been tackled.

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Process Automotive Rogers Operations 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Apps such as Uber have revolutionized the means in which we consider travelling throughout our local environment, while entire careers and messages have been sustained through Apps such as Instagram and Twitter. Automotive. Silicon valley and big tech are influencing our lives in more ways than one. Charitable Ventures.

Industry 10

Industry Automotive Self-aware Travel 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

Meanwhile their short ranges, low speeds and limited payloads don’t detract from their value because the people using these vehicles weren’t traveling very far or very fast or hauling very much to begin with.

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Marketing Transportation Licensing Cost 8

Chris Brady

MARCH 3, 2010

It was a 1996 C 220 and was the best automotive purchase I have ever made. As I traveled the country and talked to others who were having similar experiences, I understood the reason MonaVie sold more than $1 Billion of the stuff in just over three years. I couldn't shut my mouth about how great a car Mercedes had built.

Travel 58

Travel Letter Productivity Products 58

Deming Institute

MARCH 10, 2016

Plan : I was so excited to continue my research directly at the Library of Congress that I couldn’t wait to travel from Buenos Aires to Washington D.C., His clients were so diverse, from telecommunication companies to railway and automotive enterprises, even hospitals.

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Deming Library Tips Telecommunications 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

IIT-Madras and SGRI are researching scientific principles of sound travel to help muffle noise in highly occupied areas, such as company cafeterias and open office areas. For example, in the area of abrasives, SGRI develops new technologies for the automotive, steel, railway, and construction businesses.

Industry 8

Industry Construction Energy Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

Retail, travel, automotive, financial services, all of these will be obvious fits. This opens up hours worth of opportunities for companies to serve customers in those places, privately, where other people won’t judge your eyewear or choices. So what are some of the killer apps for this kind of holographic interface?

Forrester 8

Forrester Technology Execution Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

More and more services are delivered by computers transacting with other computers, such as when we make travel reservations, when machines manage our investment portfolios by trading stocks on electronic exchanges, when we shop online, and when systems generate our news feeds and negotiate with other computers over what ads will be presented to us.

Retail 10

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 10