A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World
With almost $1 billion in funding and ambitions to replace petroleum-based cars with a network of cheap electrics, Shai Agassi’s Better Place was remarkable even by the standards of world-changing startups. So was its epic failure. A 21st-century cautionary tale.
Content: Case Study | Author: Max Chafkin | Source: Fast Company | Subject: Entrepreneurship | Industry: Automotive | Company: Better Place
Vehicle Thefts in the U.S.
Hyundai’s Capabilities Play
The Korean automaker’s explosive growth in the last few years—achieved through better quality, stylish design, and clever marketing—has made it a dynamic player in the U.S. auto industry.
Content: Case Study | Author: William J. Holstein | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Strategy | Industry: Automotive | Company: Hyundai
New Vehicle Sales Up 19% YOY in April
Lawrence Burns
The energy challenges that the world faces aren’t going to be solved by focusing on energy alone. To solve these challenges, we must focus more broadly on how people live their everyday lives and what they find desirable, along with how people and companies make money.
Until you change consumer behavior and get manufacturers and suppliers to align with a new set of alternatives, you’re not … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Author: Lawrence Burns | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG) | Industry: Automotive
Electric Vehicle Sales Likely to Remain Low
Think Small to Grow: The next chapter in the North America automotive industry
How General Motors Lost Market Focus – And Its Way
When does having too many brands and too many variations of those brands create a perilous situation? The answer is that when you are an American icon, once thought too big to fail, and that never ever thought it should modify, let alone re-consider trimming, its portfolio of offerings. On the verge, General Motors illustrates why building an offering for every market segment may make … [ Read more ]
Content: Case Study | Author: Roger More | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Automotive | Company: General Motors
Electric Cars Could Dominate Market by 2030
The Indian and Chinese Auto Component Markets
Mega Market for Ultra-Low-Cost Cars
More Consumer Electronics in Cars
The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production
When The Machine That Changed the World was first published in 1990, Toyota was half the size of General Motors. Today Toyota is passing GM as the world’s largest auto maker and is the most consistently successful global enterprise of the past fifty years. This management classic was the first book to reveal Toyota’s lean production system that is the basis for its enduring success.
Now … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Daniel Roos, Daniel T. Jones, James P. Womack | Subjects: Management, Operations | Industry: Automotive
VW in China: Running the Olympic Marathon
Will Volkswagen’s “Olympic” program help it reassert its advantage in China?
Content: Case Study | Author: Ashok Som | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subjects: International – China, Management | Industry: Automotive | Company: Volkswagen
Getting to Win-Win: How Toyota Creates and Sustains Best-Practice Supplier Relationships
Across the automotive industry and around the globe, Toyota ranks as suppliers’ preferred OEM-the one with which they would most like to do more business. Yet Toyota is also known to be extremely demanding of its suppliers and rigorous in its insistence on openness and highly disciplined processes. The authors outline the principles and practices that Toyota employs to win its suppliers’ extraordinary performance-and loyalty. … [ Read more ]
Content: Case Study | Authors: Georg Sticher, Jagjit Singh, Malte Kalkoffen, Xavier Mosquet, Zafar Momin | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Best Practices, Operations | Industry: Automotive | Company: Toyota
Carlos Ghosn
Nissan’s multicultural boss talks about Japanese business culture, leadership and the perils and opportunities of corporate stardom.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: European Business Forum (EBF) | Subject: Management | Industry: Automotive
Carlos Ghosn
In 2000, Nissan Motor announced its biggest loss ever. A year later, it reported the largest net profit in its history. The turnaround was led by Carlos Ghosn, one of the few foreign executives ever to head a Japanese company. In this interview, he discusses his first year at Nissan.
Content: Thought Leader | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Management | Industry: Automotive
Skoda Leaps to Market
A Communist car monopoly turned Volkswagen subsidiary is now becoming an entrepreneurial global enterprise.
Content: Case Study | Author: Jonathan Ledgard | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Industry Specific | Industry: Automotive | Company: Skoda