PRELIMINARY NOT FOR QUOTATION Increasing Global Competition and Labor Productivity: Lessons from the US Automotive Industry MCKINSEY GLOBAL INSTITUTE Martin Neil Baily Diana Farrell Ezra Greenberg Jan-Dirk Henrich Naoko Jinjo Maya Jolles Jaana Remes November 7, 2005 Preliminary Not for quotation 1. Introduction Increasing global competition is changing the environment facing most companies today. As trade barriers fall and transaction costs decline, new global competitors
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kpmg.com/automotive II | KPMG’s Global Automotive Executive Survey 2012 Acknowledgements The Global Automotive Executive Survey is KPMG International’s annual assessment of the current state and future prospects of the worldwide automotive industry. In this year’s survey, 200 senior executives from the world’s leading automotive companies were interviewed, including automakers, suppliers, dealers, financial service providers, and for the first time mobility service providers. The responses
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culture or education had the money to not only indulge their passions, but flaunt them in front of the entire nation. It was an era, to use the title of a 1975 sociological study of a Wisconsin tavern, of blue-collar aristocrats. That all began to change in the 1980s. The recession at the beginning of that decade – America’s first Great Recession – was the beginning of the end for the bourgeois proletariat. Steelworkers showed up for first shift to find padlocks on mill gates. Autoworkers were laid
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Lean Management In Automobile Industry Lean Management In Automobile Industry Arvinder Singh, Bargavi Poloju, Inderpreet Kaur, Inderjeet Kaur, Jaskaran Singh Gill Eastern Institute of Technology September 10, 2015 Abstract Lean and six sigma are widely known business improvement processes for industries /organisations these days for achieving drastic results, which are majorly cost cutting, quality maintenance and time management by specializing in processes to boost performance. Nowadays
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motorcycle market by opening the American Honda Motor Company. A few years later, in 1963, Honda released its first sports car, the S500, in Japan. Honda Motor Co. Inc. grew rapidly to become one of the largest automobile companies in the world. Its "glocalisation" strategy of building factories around the world that would meet the needs of local customers had resulted in a total worldwide presence of more than 100 factories in 33 countries. Furthermore, while other auto manufacturers engaged in a frenzy
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The Outlook for the US Chemical Industry kpmg.com Chemicals and Performance Technologies KPMG’s Chemicals and Performance Technologies Practice • Honest, independent advice • Built on deep sector knowledge • Delivered by an integrated global team © 2010 KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. Member firms of the KPMG network of independent firms are affiliated with KPMG International. KPMG International provides no client services. All rights reserved. Executive
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Utility Vehicle) is one of the most popular types of vehicle to both own and drive. Last year, SUVs and minivans outsold conventional cars for the first time. During the 1990s, sport utility vehicles (SUVs) became the fastest growing segment of the auto industry. Generally larger and heavier than the typical automobile, SUVs require more fuel and produce greater amounts of toxins. Although buyers believe that SUVs are safer than automobiles, which they are in some cases, SUVs are more prone to roll-overs
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recommendations for change. Your group will be reviewing these results. The following is information you need to make informed decisions. America Unemployment – 9.9% Inflation – 2.3% GDP (purchasing power parity) – $14.6 trillion Output per person (GDP per capita) – 2007: $46,800; 2008: $32,560 Fed funds rate – 0.25 Discount rate – 0.50 Population – 305 million • Export goods production machinery and equipment, 32.4%; industrial supplies, 26.5%; non-auto consumer goods, 11
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Scarcity of Resources ECO/HC561 Dr. Anthony Bennett May 10, 2010 Scarcity of Resources Every day a person can turn on the news and get inundated with information regarding the most recent natural disaster, victims of crime, auto accidents, acts of terror and personal injuries. The resources in healthcare facilities are being stretched to the limits due to the constant barrage of injuries and diseases throughout our nation. Among those resources that are becoming scarce is blood.
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plays a massive role in the global economy. Back when I was a teenager, I used to follow my uncle to his work as he owns a money changer and observe blindly how the currency in my country, Malaysia changes from day to day. I would be asking myself about the reason and the aftermath for the currency change. I was told that having a strong currency is what a country would strive in the end. A strong currency means a strong nation, thus a richer country. I began to question the rightness of the fact.
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