Leading Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Without leadership, a business goes nowhere because business basics like management, creating processes, demanding accountability, planning, and marketing, which are covered in other Facts in the book, never even come into play. In other words, I think leadership is the first step toward owning and operating a successful business.

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Automotive Customer Loyalty Open-book Definition 285

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. But one angle that hasn't yet been covered is the brand-inspired cultural revolution he led inside the organization.

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Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Perhaps, you should ask these questions: How predictable is the environment in which our unit operates? A classical strategy (the one everyone learned in business school) works well for companies operating in predictable and immutable environments. How much power do we have to change that environment? . Your answers may vary widely.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 24, 2013

KKSP Precision Machining in Glendale Heights, Illinois, is a manufacturer of high-volume, precision made-to-print automatic screw machine products for automotive, medical/veterinary, appliance, HVAC and aerospace markets.

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Case Study Automotive Strategic Planning Engineering 83

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

The findings emerged from a study of the automotive industry in nine developed countries, which collectively underwent 205 collective layoffs from 20 major brands over a 15 year period. It’s likely that the merit of the firm’s prior actions will be called into question, however, as will their future prospects.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean. With his friend Bill Sterett, he purchased an underperforming automotive dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1992.

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Automotive Succession Open-book Books 72

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean. With his friend Bill Sterett, he purchased an underperforming automotive dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1992.

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Books Automotive Review Open-book 66

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2024

Norway, and other Scandinavian nations were early adopters of EVs, and Germany and Japan have long been automotive powerhouses, their EV markets have lagged in mass market adoption compared to China. In 2022, new EV sales in China grew by 82%, and the country provided 35% of global EV exports. While the U.S.,

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2014

Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean. With his friend Bill Sterett, he purchased an underperforming automotive dealership in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1992.

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Automotive Open-book Retail Follow-up 56

HR Digest

MAY 25, 2022

As the official airline company of Switzerland, Swissair was one of the leaders in the airline market. It was operating successfully for more than 70 years. However, the company culture and team members did not consider the changes in the market and they did not want to change their business orientation according to the market.

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Groupthink Automotive Airlines Examples 52

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a market that is already worth $3.1 billion and is estimated to be worth $48 billion by 2026, with the Covid pandemic driving growth, especially in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, but also in sectors such as automotive and defense. “ There are cases with upload speeds of over 1Gbps.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

If you are looking for a career in the automotive industry, for instance, you might want to search jobs Heber Utah , and see what is on offer in that sphere. Salt Lake City, in particular, hosts the headquarters of some major players, such as Wells Fargo, which runs its western operations from here.

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Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

[ I’m happy to share this guest post from my friend and colleague, Michael Kennedy —a veteran of the automotive industry and renowned automotive recruiter. As an automotive recruiter I should be laughing all the way to the bank—but this is no laughing matter. Good, talented people are asking themselves, Is this all there is?

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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?'" An automobile manufacturer got it right when it tried to crack the Indian market. Here's how the best trend hunters operate. Tie insights to operations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

As that market grows, so will the need for legislation around emissions testing, fuel economy standards, and so on. Until recently, it operated mostly in European, American, and Japanese markets; those markets demanded high-functionality measurement capabilities. Options for self service.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

based companies are repatriating their manufacturing capabilities — moving some production operations back from overseas. The United States remains a large, affluent market that generates significant global demand. The reality, however, is that less and less of that demand is being filled by stateside manufacturing operations.

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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. So how do you empower your corporate innovators to bring their ideas to market? Would Gerber own today's V8?

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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. What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2015

These “ nexus suppliers ” could be important for one or both of two reasons: A disruption of its operation would have a surprisingly huge impact on the original-equipment manufacturer’s production. (A The supplier possesses critical market information. The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

General Motors, once the world’s largest car maker, has decided to stop selling vehicles in India by the end of 2017, since it considers its India operation to be not profitable. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Unlike Bentley or Rolls-Royce, GM is a mass-market car company in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

companies in the automotive, agricultural, and textile industries by as much as one percentage point (assuming no pass-through of higher costs to consumers). Should NAFTA withdrawal and the border adjustment both occur, the combined effect would weigh most heavily on the oil and gas, automotive, and aerospace sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. Last year 400 members of IAM Maine Lobstering Union bought the wholesale operation of Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound and turned it into a worker-owned cooperative called Lobster 207.

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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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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. Of the large markets, the U.S., Automotive OEMs. Aftermarket automotive. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the automobile. Retail and consumer business.

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 11

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. Constraints need not be limiting.

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Innovation Constraint Engineering Automotive 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Former congressman and CIA director Leon Panetta described it as "legalized bribery"; something which has just "become part of the culture of how this place operates.". It seems to be happening more and more frequently, across sectors: Automotive.

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Innovation Transportation Disruptive Innovation Price 22

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? But Chinese companies of all sizes are already operating in the U.S. During the global financial crisis, Robert Remenar, CEO of Nexteer, a Michigan-based automotive steering firm, deliberately searched for potential new Chinese owners. When a Chinese company operates in the U.S., in a big way.

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Automotive Long-term Operations Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Your company has (mostly) solved product/market fit. What to do. What to do. What not to do.

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Metrics Engineering Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

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. companies were deciding to move R&D to China to be closer to manufacturers, suppliers, and talent as well as to reap lower development costs and higher-growth markets.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Maturity 14

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 Thai flooding created significant shortages in the hard disc drive market, manufacturers lost millions of dollars.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

The automotive industry has opened up again. But to capture the full potential of the shipping container, we needed to change how ports operated, how union employees were compensated, how ships were designed, and the very structure of business in the logistics industry. With Apple’s entry, it’s clear.

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Automotive Transportation Brand Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In a study of nearly 250 manufacturers over a 10-year period (2005–2015), we found that 78% of firms had improved their ability to fill their total actual market demand but had lost control over costs. All kinds of companies had failed at operational flexibility. Hardly a desirable position. Optimization through cross-training.

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Automotive Operations Efficiency Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

Unfortunately, Zuckerberg’s “platform” reference has elicited many comparisons of Oculus to Google’s purchase of Android , the company that would provide Google with its own smartphone operating system. Virtual reality is not a disruption to the computing market, instead it stands poised to disrupt content consumption.

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