Industrial sector

And it's realizing that now.

The construction industry could boost productivity by 50% to 60%.

Challenged by world-class competitors, manufacturing companies in the United States have greatly improved their product development efforts as well as...

There are disruptive signs in the market's low end.

Last week, Toyota announced it will close the plant of New United Motor Manufacturing Incorporated (Nummi), its one-time joint venture with GM to make...

Legal liability is the price you pay for strategic dominance.

A study explored the link between safety and profitability.

I like Bob Lutz. I worked with him for three years (2006-2008) during my work with Rick Wagoner and his senior team on the attempt to turnaround the fortunes of GM. Bob and I tended to be on the same side on most issues. In that context, it was fun to read his new book: […]

High-stakes projects need all-star teams. But all-stars often play by their own rules—and fight like cats and dogs.

The Idea: Fadi Ghandour has built one of the most successful entrepreneurial enterprises to emerge from the Arab world, Aramex International , overcoming rejections, cash-flow crises, and naysayers in every country where he tried to do business.

Top-down leadership may very well be necessary during a crisis. But when the crisis has passed, what’s needed is a leader who can create an environment where every employee is responsible for sustaining success.

Look through the lens of disruptive innovation.

And the lessons the company's learned along the way.

It will ensure complex projects have transparency and good record keeping.

The CFO of a global construction company disagrees with his CEO (and good friend) about the advantages of self-managed teams--particularly because lack...

For decades the difficulty of motivating salespeople has been frustrating sales and marketing managers. To the most effective ones, two things are clear: one, the job is difficult; two, there is no one simple solution. Believing that “good salespeople are born, not made,” many managers recognize that recruiting is important. Others holding that “if you […]

Last week I was riding through the bustling streets of Bangalore when my colleague made a provocative statement: “I think the Tata Nano is going to be a flop.” It was a strong statement coming from an Innosighter. After all, we have been talking about the disruptive potential of the “people’s car” — priced as […]

Former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley on lessons learned the hard way

With China now in the World Trade Organization, opportunities for multinational corporations are multiplying and evolving fast—and so are the accompanying underlying perils.

Green initiatives can, by reducing costs, enhance a company’s bottom line. Actions that harm the environment can have the opposite effect. Now, thanks to a burgeoning market in greenhouse gas emission credits put into effect by the Kyoto Protocol, environmental considerations will increasingly affect not only companies’ income statements but also their balance sheets. A […]