Paris Motor show (Le Mondial de l’Automobile) is the last major Motor Show of 2016 closing a transformation cycle that started a year ago in Frankfurt, followed by Tokyo, Detroit, Geneva, and Beijing. It is also the last Motor Show of a type. 2016 will remain a turning point in the auto industry. In just[…]
I was given the opportunity to make a keynote end of September at the Smart Cloud Show 2016 organized by the Korean newspaper Chosun on the theme smart city and smart manufacturing. This is in a nutshell, the outline of my presentation: Our world is at the dawn of an unprecedented transformation from a technical,[…]
There is not one day without news on the front of autonomous driving. But things appear now to be clearer with 2 schools of thought. The two giant companies Toyota and Google, leading their relative businesses, are representative of those 2 schools. From Toyota’s and most carmakers’ point of view, autonomous car will come step[…]
Starting in 2009, Toyota was hit by one of the biggest series of recalls in the automotive history. Even though it was later proven that there was no intention from Toyota to hide anything and that eventually it was established no defect affected the electronics of the car, the damage to the company’s reputation and business[…]
We regularly read or hear from renowned economists how the digital revolution to come will destroy jobs and keep GDP growth depleted. Among those economists are the 3 French Thomas Piketty, Daniel Cohen and Patrick Artus. All 3 have described in recent books a world that is becoming unfair, difficult, and according to them, the[…]
2 major new cars are introduced this year. Toyota Mirai –future in Japanese- is the first production model with a fuel-cell power train fuelled by hydrogen and only emitting water. Renault Kwid is the cheapest modern attractive product ever developed. Both impressive outputs, results of the best of the know-how of the 2 brands are[…]
Why disruption will make the third road of management the best way for organizations to grow. Example of mobility and automotive companies: In current conditions, organizations using all sources of ideas, thinking and acting globally and locally, and giving more freedom for quick implementation are already more efficient. What will it be under future technical and[…]
Based in their HQs in Japan, GG was an executive at Nissan (early 2000s) and Toyota (early 2010s) when both companies lived through the most important turnarounds in their history. The book to come will share his key learning points from these unique experiences, which all Japanese, and ultimately global, firms can adopt. Among many[…]
All people who have graduated an MBA (there are more than 200 000 every year in the world) or a business school have studied the theory of strategy and marketing. One of the most famous author and professor at Harvard, Michael Porter formalized the theory of strategy. What is strategy? Basically there are two[…]
As child my first experience of Japanese culture was the Judo class my parents put me in when I was 10 years old. Judo means in Japanese the road of flexibility (柔道). 2 years later, facing a total lack of progress, partly due to a very rigid body, I gave up Judo. This was my[…]