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Regular readers of this blog know my opinion on the global automotive industry: shares highly overpriced and structural overcapacity on the total global operations. Also in the year 2010, the Automotive sector showed the highest increase in share value of all global industries: +41%. As you may remember..2009 was +101%. Where does this end? The [...]

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When in August 2009 GM went bankrupt, the name of the old GM was changed into Motors Liquidation Company. The new company, with the US Government as majority shareholder, was named again GM, which jokingly was referred to as Government Motors first. November 18, General Motors returned to the New York Stock Exchange for the [...]

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Product Leadership is one of the cornerstones of leading enterprises. Developing new products and services is the basis for growth of businesses as well as our local/global economies. Successful product innovations share some similarities and valuable lessons can be learned from successes as well as failures. Not making the same mistakes others have made before you [...]

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Since the former largest automotive company in the world has a  new shareholder, the US Government for 61%, things seemed to have improved considerably. In Q2-2010, the company showed a considerable net profit of $ 1.3 billion over a 3  month period. Exceptional, said all automotive industry analysts in the business papers. What’s really happening? [...]

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Indeed it is! One example to support this slogan is the new combined European Headquarters and Warehouse facility from Collective Brands Inc, which was officially opened June 30th, 2010 in Heerhugowaard in Noord Holland province. Imengo was tasked to run the overall Program Office for this Project, which included Preparation, Execution and Delivery of both [...]

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Every year AMR research (www.amrresearch.com ) publishes the Top25 Supply Chain Leaders in our Global economy. Apart from all the financial and operational data being reviewed (like Return on Assets and Inventory Turns), other elements driving Supply Chain Excellence are being introduced into the metrics of this Top25. To name a few: – Revenue Growth [...]

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My Golden Rule is “structure follows strategy.” But, it is also crucial to understand the “genes” of the organization. Implementing supply chain innovation in an organization like the army, for instance, is completely different from implementing supply chain innovation in an organization such as Apple, simply because of the genes, the structure, and the type [...]

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Dabbawalla – a perfect Food Supply Chain the Indian way How do you deliver 200,000 fresh lunches every day to your customers? At that at $5 per month? It’s done. And not in New York or London, but in Mumbai, India. Six Sigma experts found 1 error in 6,000,000 transactions ! Check that out Mr. [...]

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The Automotive Industy. Always has been a benchmark and example for lots of other industries because of it’s characteristics: global competitive branding time to market product life cycle innovation and co-creation lean you name it. Another characteristic of the industry is that it seems to be dominated by men. In general men want bigger, faster. [...]

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Van de kwart eeuw die ik gewerkt, ben ik zo’n 5 jaar consultant geweest. Ik heb altijd moeite gehad met het woord ‘consultant’. Het roept bij mij (zoals bij velen weet ik) een boel associaties op die niet altijd zo positief zijn. Cees Min heeft hier recent een mooi boekje over geschreven: ‘Bye Bye Consultant’. [...]

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