The reality of costs
Managers often default to cost cutting as the best way to begin to regain competitiveness. Jules Goddard believes that will only make things worse.
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The Sloan legacy
"General Motors' legacy as an automotive juggernaut may be in doubt; but there is no question that one of GM's early leaders, Alfred P. Sloan, has left an enduring mark on management science - and London Business School.
Six sigma at your service
Lean Six Sigma is the bedrock of quality initiatives in manufacturing companies. Can this approach be used in service companies?
Motor drive
It has been a not-so-quiet battle between two titans, General Motos and Toyota.
Lean development
Toyota is feted for its lean manufacturing, but before the production line beckons there is, what Freddy Ballé and Michael Ballé describe as, lean development.
Making and losing an industry
William Crapo Durant (1881–1947) was a brilliant entrepreneur who helped create the US automobile industry.
Volkswagen strikes back
Volkswagen has had a bumpy ride in the US – glorious success in the 1970s, dismal failure in the late 1980s and early 1990s and now a great success again. What are the reasons for the most recent turnaround? Case prepared by Julian Birkinshaw
GM and the great automation solution
In the 1980s General Motors sought to regain its supremacy by replacing people with robotics, a strategy that was ill conceived from the start.
Telematics: Decision Time for Detroit
With implications for navigation, safety, entertainment and vehicle maintenance as well as regulation and infrastructure investment in roads, telematics has the potential to transform driving more than any other innovation for decades.
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