N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Sam Walsh: I graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from Melbourne University and started my career in the Automotive Industry at General Motors in Australia in 1972. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

The Horizons Tracker

JULY 1, 2020

Healthcare is not renowned for its high pay and may struggle to attract talent in these areas in sufficient volume and quality when they’re fighting against organizations in finance, technology, and automotive sectors, who traditionally offer much higher packages to workers.

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Skills Report Technology Long-term 95

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Automotive. Automotive. Automotive. Automotive. Technology. Tesla Motor. Alphabet (Google). Technology. Procter & Gamble. Consumer Goods. Technology. Johnson & Johnson. Biotech & Pharma. Walt Disney. Prudential Financial. Cisco Systems. Communication. Biotech & Pharma. HSBC Holdings. Wells Fargo.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

According to data from Yahoo finance, company’s market cap exceeds that of Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Honda, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, and Daimler combined. But the better and more challenging question is, how would the automotive industry’s incumbents respond to genuinely disruptive competition? Apple is brilliant.

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Automotive Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation Retail 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. Automotive OEMs. Aftermarket automotive. How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? In so doing, it will transform much more than that.

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

The American automotive industry looked rock-solid. HCCI outsourced back-office operations — human resources, accounting, finance, medical transcription, radiology — to low-cost but high-skilled employees in India. Tim Robberts/Getty Images. There was a time when the American steel industry seemed invincible.

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Health Care System Innovation Price 15

Chris Brady

MARCH 3, 2010

It was a 1996 C 220 and was the best automotive purchase I have ever made. .  Over the course of three years of ownership it cost me an average of $322 per month in repairs! One day in total frustration and spontaneity I drove to the Mercedes car lot and traded it for the cheapest used Mercedes they had.

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Travel Letter Productivity Products 58

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

ZF, a global automotive supplier based in Germany, was no exception. With automotive analysts forecasting major changes ahead in mobility, they began to think that the firm needed a dedicated lab that focused entirely on data challenges. Unfortunately, this didn’t narrow it down a whole lot.

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Company Automotive Project Chief Information Officer 10

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The finance, insurance, information, and communications industries exhibit the highest proportion of remote workers, as reported by the authors. In the automotive industry, for instance, very few companies offered remote work prior to the pandemic, but by 2022 Honda offered it to around half of new engineering hires.

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Automotive Advertising Industry Trends 114

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We have Waze for traffic navigation and congestion; why not a Waze for automotive emissions and pollution? In food, as well as finance, activists will have to marry meaningful analytics to ideology to spark interest and wield influence. Consider “digital due diligence” emerging as a new normal for the sharing economy.

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Due Diligence Automotive NGO Incentives 8

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.

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Transportation Automotive Brand Engineering 8

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.

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COO Sample Telecommunications Automotive 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. Enter a coalition. The goal is create a common platform, “an open ecosystem for the open road,” the alliance website proclaims.

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Project Transportation Construction Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. Today, US firms have less than 2% of market share in the multi-billion automotive lithium-ion battery industry. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. And last year saw the first demonstration of a digital printer producing multilayer, standards-based circuit boards. 3D printing is poised to redefine global manufacturing and distribution.

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Supply Chain Execution Analysis Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. For instance, at one automotive company, the CMO and CFO worked together with their teams to draw up a global set of financial and non-financial metrics for the short and long term. Finance Marketing' Ask for the CFO’s help.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 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. This is a concept fundamental to finance but that, for some reason, has not migrated into supply chain risk management.

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Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Machine learning and its most prominent subfield, deep learning, have attracted a lot of media attention and received a significant share of the financing that has been pouring into the AI universe, garnering nearly 60% of all investments from outside the industry in 2016. Digital capabilities come before AI.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

By sheer happenstance, I had just gotten a copy of Gemba Walks , a collection of essays by James Womack , a co-author of the automotive classic The Machine That Changed The World and a pioneering importer of Toyota-inspired lean production insights and methodologies to America. "We provide the space, equipment and expertise.

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Innovation Lean Production Disintermediation Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Strategic options could be found that would recognize that the normal debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing in bankruptcy was not likely to be available in the context of the worst financial crisis in 50 years. So I constantly put the question to my colleagues: Suppose government finance was not an option, what would be the best thing to do?

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Process Uncertainty Analysis Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2014

If you’re in automotive, you might look at other highly regulated industries, like healthcare and finance, which manage to experiment considerably despite stringent regulatory environments. Assess analogous industries : Looking at direct competitors can sometimes be misleading. Look across adjacent industries.

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Brand Products Productivity Mass Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. Consider what the board of General Electric has declared as its criteria for new directors.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. Today, it is occurring at the level of ecosystems. The Internet of Things is a good example of this change.

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Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants.

Retail 9

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Avoid specializing by customer type (SaaS vs. Ecommerce vs. Automotive) or specific types of problems–your go-to-market is still changing, continue optimizing for flexibility. Strategies like outsourcing, hiring lower-cost people, or exotic employment offer tempting cost savings to the finance-minded folks. What not to do.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 15

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. His vast experience from serving on the Committees of Finance, Judiciary, Education, and Rules. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2018

today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. The increased role of finance in our economy. An active angel investor and start-up advisor, he serves on boards in aerospace, automotive, construction, energy, food, and health care.

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Cost Health Care IPO Finance 172

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

The Internet of Things, for example, is being stymied by the Federal Trade Commission’s valid but vague concerns about privacy protections, while crowdfunding and other innovative forms of finance await overdue rules from the Security and Exchange Commission.

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Third, as a result of strong performances by worker- and employee-owned companies, it is becoming easier for workers to overcome arguably the biggest hurdle to worker buyouts: financing. One area that seems ripe for this is in the arena of connected and autonomous mobility systems in the automotive and aerospace industries.

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ESOP Company Cooper IAM 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For example, Apple says that whenever it finds an underage worker in its supply chain, it sends the child home safely, continues paying his or her wages, and even finances the child’s education and offers employment once doing so is legal. Many companies claim to adhere to strict policies about child labor.

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Supply Chain Company Ethics Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

If that displaced 20% of the 250 million cars Americans own, consumers would save $150 billion, $3,000 for every car displaced, and 1 million jobs would disappear in the automotive related industries — manufacturing, insurance, finance, etc. There are 3.5 million professional truck drivers in our country, and about 8.7

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Retail Automotive Supply Chain Price 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

While some might be enthused by the potential for corporate tax reform or a (promised) $1 trillion infrastructure investment plan, it’s more likely they’re referring to the historic rollback of regulations in the works across many sectors , from fossil fuels to mining, guns, and finance.

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Efficiency Supply Chain Short-term Transportation 9

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

million hours in delays at the crossing in 2010, concludes an upcoming report by the Center for Automotive Research. The Moroun family certainly has an influential voice in the State of Michigan, given it contributed $565,000 to state candidates for the 2010 election, according to campaign finance records.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

However, new tariffs or more-restrictive rules of origin would likely only fall on a few industries, such as the automotive sector. If he wins with only a narrow victory, as seems likely, his administration would have a limited mandate for populist reforms that would severely damage foreign investment flows and public finances.

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Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 9