What will the teardown of electric vehicles mean for the future of the mass market thereof? In this article, we describe success factors on the way to profitable serial production of EVs and discuss essential practices for paving the road toward the EV mass market.
The race is on to be the first to offer near-field communication payment systems – which will allow people to purchase items with a swipe of their smartphone. At this point, Google, Visa and telecommunications operators are all in it to win it. Why? NFC payments have the potential to replace many cash registers and…
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HBR examines and reveals the root problems of strategy execution, largely identified as having to do with “people” – and not the strategy itself. This article means that however hard it is to devise a smart strategy, it’s ten times harder to get people to execute on that strategy. In other words, your organization’s biggest strategy…
Why having Software and the invisible design in the same phrase? Do we mean that the software lines of code can’t be read or seen? Of course not! What is meant is that the lines of code despite the fact that they are visible are only understandable for the one who has written them. For…
Lean is being made too confusing for its own good, it’s time to cut the jargon, keep it simple and enjoy the benefits of an engaged and motivated workforce! Having spent three decades at Toyota, we spent little, if any time reading about ‘Lean’. In fact, we never referred to it as Lean, rather the…
At the end of the day, we are all sales people in one form or another. Whether it’s a child pleading their case for just a little more time to stay up watching TV in return for their best behavior, or a grown man/woman shopping at their local farmer’s market attempting to negotiate the best deal…
North Korea, one of the most controversially operated countries in the world, is not only moving in an increasingly unstable direction but is also in possession of nuclear arms. Arguably, this is cause for concern. Perhaps those most concerned should be those who neighbor the volatile country; specifically, China. China continues to invest in North…
