Transportation and distribution

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation...

Long the quality and efficiency standard-setter, Toyota now has an ostrich-sized egg on its face — a problem with sticking accelerator pedals that led to global product recalls and a suspension of production and sales. There are important lessons to be learned from Toyota’s stumble: Competitive success is fluid. It depends on continuously discovering better […]

How will it change your business model?

Venture capitalist Brad Feld says the toll of flying to meetings usually outweighs the benefits.

Photography: Nick Wilson/Redux The Idea: Russia’s economy is cash based, and its delivery networks are shaky. To drive growth in e-commerce, Ozon had to create a proprietary distribution system, a new logistics and customer service model, and a highly engaged team. At first I didn’t want to have anything to do with Ozon. I was […]

And it's realizing that now.

Examples from Maersk, IBM, and TRIP.

Maybe, but only if digital activism increases.

Avoiding this kind of disruption takes more than a skunkworks team.

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 […]

Precision discounting can benefit both companies and customers.

The proposed sale of GM’s Hummer brand to a Chinese company fell through this week, and GM will now shutter the company. The ultimate symbol of overconsumption has finally fallen prey to higher energy prices and changing consumer demands. This New York Times piece offers some interesting stats, like the fact that Hummer sold only […]

Five reasons a driverless future is not inevitable.

A great product is more than the sum of its patents.

Incremental innovations can be springboards for progress.

It’s a different way to approach regulation.

How her long history of collaboration catapulted her to the top, and will help GM.

Noncompetes are bad for innovation; protecting information is essential.

Drivers can't have too much or too little faith in self-driving cars.

Sergio Marchionne has lit a fire under Chrysler that is providing a spark of hope to the ailing automaker. From media reports, it seems that the Fiat team under Marchionne’s leadership is shaking up the place the way another Italian (albeit American) did a generation ago, Lee Iacocca. As a hands-on manager, Marchionne expects his […]