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Tuesday, May 4, 2021
‘Appropriate’ Efficiency: Few Auto Companies Know How To Measure That Including GM
Last week, the Chief Executive Offer (CEO) of General Motors GM -0.1%, Mary Barra, publicly messaged that its 155,000 global employees shall be allowed to “work appropriately” in the future amidst a flexible, evolving sometimes-remote workplace. “The learnings and successes of the last year led us t...
Monday, April 26, 2021
The Enemy Of Innovative 3D Printing In Automotive: The Project Accountant
There is the belief amongst investors that traditional automotive companies cannot keep up with new entrants into the automotive area during a period of explosive innovation: autonomous, electric vehicles, connected platforms, etc. Agility is not the strength of monolithic corporations steeped in hi...
Monday, April 26, 2021
Musk Or Farley: Figuring Out Who Is The Tommy Boy Of Autonomous Cars
A Twitter exchange over the past 36 hours between two automotive Chief Executive Officers — Jim Farley of Ford and Elon Musk of Tesla — has provided the public some online entertainment. The inferences should truly scare minimally the one set of customers — let alone investors on Wall Street and dri...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
The Automotive Sequel To The Pandemic: Rat Damage In Parked Cars
Engineering colloquialisms.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Five Ways Agile In Automotive Will Pivot In 2021
Agile Development, a way to incrementally approach complex projects by decomposing it into smaller chunks and measuring the ability of the team to accomplish these bite-sized pieces, has absolutely taken ahold recently in the automotive sector. Companies attempting to forge into the brave, innovativ...
Monday, November 9, 2020
The Auto Industry’s ‘Safety At Any Cost’ Changes Daily
In April of 2014, Mary Barra announced at a Senate hearing investigating the General Motors GM +1.2% ignition switch recall, “…with any safety defect, there is no calculation of the cost.” Essentially, she was stating to the world that the ‘New GM’ cared more about lives than profits and that “safet...
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