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Whether Competitors Or Colleagues, CEOs Collaborate During COVID-19
Much as government officials across the country have never had as much to do with one another as they have while trying to tamp out COVID-19, the coronavirus also has America’s CEOs talking among...
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Master of Manufacturing: Wine-Fridge Maker Chills While Navigating COVID-19
This is the latest in our “Masters of Manufacturing” series, presented in partnership with The Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Each month we share insights and ideas from innovative,...
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How to Manage your Supply Chain Shock Waves
Supply chains throughout our economy will experience volatile shock waves of product supply and demand over the next year or more. Most companies’ automated supply chain systems are incapable of...
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Ready or Not, CEOs, Here Comes Industry 4.0
America’s mid-size manufacturers are buffeted by COVID-19 and uncertain how to proceed in recovery, but at least they’re being hurled headlong toward Industry 4.0. And the savviest company owners and...
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Musk’s Histrionics Boost Stakes Beyond Covid-19
Elon Musk’s Howard Beale moment this week—over re-opening of the Tesla factory in Fremont, California—has added yet another chapter to one of the most truly spectacular and riveting business careers...
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GM’s Barra Gets Personally Involved In Covid-19 Reassurance
General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra has extended her leadership of the global auto industry amid the Covid-19 crisis by putting her personal stamp on the company’s return to some U.S. production...
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Back-To-Work Day Tests Auto Industry’s Covid-19 Protocols
Today’s great re-cranking of the U.S. automotive manufacturing base represents one of the biggest bets so far on a re-opening of the global economy since the beginning of the recovery from the Covid-19...
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Don’t Look Now, But Airstream Is Streaking
As the U.S. pandemic started in March, Bob Wheeler and his team projected a 70-percent April drop-off in sales for their Airstream recreational vehicles. That wasn’t an unreasonable expectation given...
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Master of Manufacturing: Jim Glynn, GM’s Point Man for Covid-19 Reopening
This is the latest in our “Masters of Manufacturing” series, presented in partnership with The Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Each month we share insights and ideas from innovative,...
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Toward The New Normal—And Into The Unknown
Through 90-plus days of sudden and catastrophic economic collapse, America’s CEOs have heroically focused on the most important, immediate questions forced upon them: “How can I keep my workers safe?”...
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So Far, So Smooth: GM’s Re-Opening Is Going Well
General Motors is finding the restart of auto production “unbelievably smooth” in its recovery from the Covid-19 shutdown, with its extensive health protocols so far preventing transmission of the...
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As the U.S. Economy Reopens, Endless Catch-22s Will Threaten Recovery
Though the U.S. economy just lost twice the percentage of its employment in two months as it did in the 2008 financial crisis over two years, there is widespread optimism that the nascent reopenings in...
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Best & Worst States: Tale of Two Surging Cities
Their states only stayed pat in the new “Best States/Worst States for Business” rankings for 2020, but Phoenix and Cincinnati are building on their reputations as dynamic places for CEOs to do business...
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The Little Company That Could—And Did
February was one of our company’s strongest months. We’d had our goals mapped out and ready to go since the beginning of 2020—including investor meetings, exploring new real estate locations around the...
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Manufacturing CEOs Find New Ways To Communicate
Manufacturing executives have learned much from taking their companies into the pandemic and beginning to take them out of it, about operational areas ranging from worker safety and health to how much...
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Green Shoots: Barra Foresees GM Back At ‘Full’ Production This Month
General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said that the automaker expects to be back to the 2020 equivalent of full production in the United States by around the end of this month, signaling that the...
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China Already Has Lost The American Consumer
Politicians and CEOs around the world are gyrating over how to treat Chinese manufacturing after the pandemic. But the American consumer isn’t waiting for them to lead. U.S. shoppers already have begun...
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Volkswagen’s U.S. Strategist Is Optimistic About Automaking
Media coverage of the pandemic has had at least two profound effects on auto sales in the United States: depressing consumer confidence, but also enhancing Americans’ desire for personal transportation...
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NAM CEO Jay Timmons Hits Airwaves To Push For Masks
As Covid-19 cases rise in parts of the U.S., the National Association of Manufacturers has a message: Want to save the nation’s economy from disaster? Put a mask on. Now. The powerful trade group,...
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The Dark Side Of Operational Efficiency In Times Of Crisis
Few management practices have captured business attention more than the quest for operational efficiency. Indeed, over the years, businesses across a wide spectrum of industries have readily adopted...
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