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Technology Is Changing What a Premium Automotive Brand Looks Like

Harvard Business

Many mature industries are experiencing significant technological disruption. Leaders in every industry are no doubt keeping a vigilant eye on such developments, yet one very important aspect of this disruption has been largely overlooked: technology fundamentally changes what makes your brand premium. JEWEL SAMAD/Staff/Getty Images.

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Can Anyone Stop Amazon from Winning the Industrial Internet?

Harvard Business

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. It also puts a fundamental question back on the agendas of CEOs in other industries: Will software eat the world, as Marc Andreessen famously quipped?

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Why You and Your Clients Will Benefit from the Kanban Approach

Comatch

Work management methods ensure a workplace runs as efficiently as possible. It is built on concepts used by Toyota and applied to knowledge work rather than purely in automotive industrial plants. However, unlike Scrum, it’s not only used in the IT industry. Aside from Scrum, it’s the most important agile approach.

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Organizational structure for remote teams

Asamby Consulting

Poor(er) problem solving Businesses are facing and making tough decisions, to identify a problem, break it down into its components, and solve the problem effectively and efficiently is vital. Examples of common functions are sales, marketing, human resources, etc.

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Breaking down the M&A Case Study

Tom Spencer

Rationale: The main reason IBM decided to buy these 40+ companies is that they could all benefit from the firm’s global sales force. Mergers are common in the automotive industry and usually motivated by a central reason. All these companies had smaller scale than IBM and slightly different technology. Image: Pexels.

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Don’t Be Tyrannized by Old Metrics

Harvard Business

Most industries cower to a few central metrics, the yardsticks that define the winners and losers. For example, same-store sales or sales per square foot measure success in the retail industry, and various volume measures do it in commodity industries. Consider the automotive industry. For years, U.S.

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Is Your Supply Chain Ready for a NAFTA Overhaul?

Harvard Business

At the same time, exports and other foreign sales would be made tax free. How Different Industries Might Fare. companies in the automotive, agricultural, and textile industries by as much as one percentage point (assuming no pass-through of higher costs to consumers). Any export subsidy would allow U.S.