Download or read book Success of Saturn A Case Study of the Saturn Automobile written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 50 years the U.S. was the leading producer of automobiles worldwide. By 1980 this dominance had shifted considerably with the Japanese taking the number one position from the U.S. American automobile manufacturers had been sleeping at the wheel while the Japanese developed the concept of lean manufacturing and produced quality, inexpensive, fuel efficient automobiles. They put their cars on the market in the U.S. and Americans bought Japanese instead of expensive, large, inefficient U.S. automobiles. In mid 1982, General Motors launched a plan to combat the Japanese intrusion into the American market place. The plan was called the Saturn Corporation. It took eight years and a huge capital investment to produce the first car but the Saturn cars are cutting into the Japanese stronghold on the small car market in the U.S. Saturn Corporation could become the model for General Motors divisions of the future. What has been learned at Saturn is shared, studied and incorporated where applicable in other GM motor divisions. This case study tells the Saturn story from it's inception to present (early 1993).
Download or read book Saturn Orbits Car Making Into the Twenty First Century A Case Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study focuses on the development and production of General Motor's Saturn automobile and its impact on GM's declining competitive position in the industry. By implementing a management philosophy that relies on consensus decision-making, a manufacturing approach blending new technologies with a highly motivated work force, and a unique sales and distribution system, Saturn plans to meet its competition head-on, capturing 80 percent of its market from non-GM owners. In production since 1990, Saturn has been rated by automobile industry analysts to be one of the best in the compact car category in quality and styling at a highly favorable price. It ranked third in customer satisfaction behind the prestigious Lexus and Infiniti by one industry survey. Yet Saturn has not been profitable in its early years of production and still has not met its planned production capacity. The issues addressed in this case include an analysis of the pros and cons of GM's strategy to invest $3 billion in Saturn, a contrast of mass production to Saturn's lean production techniques, a comparison of Saturn's development to the defense acquisition process, and an assessment of the survivability of the U.S. automobile industry.
Download or read book Forming the Future written by Jack O'Toole and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forming the Future is the first complete account of the dramatic creation of the Saturn Corporation, General Motors' highly publicized attempt to design a product that could compete in an automobile market dominated by the Japanese.
Download or read book Management Concepts And Strategies written by J S Chandan and published by Vikas Publishing House. This book was released on 1997 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple, clear, unambiguous, well-structured well-grounded and authoritative, this book covers the tools, techniques and strategies used by effective managers.
Download or read book Stages to Saturn written by Roger E. Bilstein and published by History Office. This book was released on 1996 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A classic study of the development of the Saturn launch vehicle that took Americans to the moon in the 1960s"--Back cover.
Download or read book Learning from Saturn written by Saul A. Rubinstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saturn's locally designed manufacturing system featured self-directed teams and the integration of union representatives into management's strategic and operational decision-making processes.".
Download or read book The U S Automobile Manufacturing Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategy Implementation Readings written by P. J. Smit and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2000-01-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection highlight the importance of strategy control and implementation in maintaining a competitive advantage. Partial contents: The eclectic roots of strategy implementation research ; Transformational leadership.
Download or read book Stages to Saturn written by Roger E Bilstein and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-13 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book In the Rings of Saturn written by Joe Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining account of the rise and fall of the Saturn plant, built by General Motors in Tennessee to produce an entirely new car that would reinvent the way American companies manufactured automobiles.
Download or read book Learning From Saturn written by Saul A. Rubinstein and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two decades of the twentieth century were a tumultuous time of innovation for business and labor. Perhaps the boldest and most far-reaching experiment in industry was the creation of the Saturn Corporation. Working together as partners, the UAW and General Motors built a new small car in Spring Hill, Tennessee, with American suppliers and American workers. Saturn's locally designed manufacturing system featured self-directed teams and the integration of union representatives into management's strategic and operational decision-making processes. Saul A. Rubinstein and Thomas A. Kochan have followed the Saturn story since its beginning in 1983. Through surveys as well as hundreds of interviews with company managers, union representatives, and employees, and with leaders of GM and the UAW, they trace the history of, and the lessons to be learned from, this "Different Kind of Company." The Saturn experiment embodied a new concept of labor-management relations, management, and organizational governance. Has it been a success or a failure? Is it relevant in the current industrial environment? What effect has it had on GM and the UAW? The authors resist overly simplistic conclusions; Saturn's strengths and limitations must be fairly assessed before the company's experience can provide lessons on the future of unions, labor-management relations, work organization, and corporate governance.
Download or read book Summary My Years with General Motors written by BusinessNews Publishing, and published by Primento. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-read summary of Alfred P. Sloan Jr.'s book "My Years with General Motors: How General Motors Was Built Into the Largest Corporation in the World". This complete summary of the ideas from Alfred P. Sloan Jr.'s book "My Years with General Motors" shares Alfred P. Sloan Jr.'s experience as a CEO of General Motors from 1923 to 1946. In his book, the author explains the policies and processes he used at General Motors to make it the number one organisation in the automobile industry. By learning about his strategies, you can start applying them to your own business and take your company to the next level. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand the key concepts • Expand your business knowledge To learn more, read "My Years with General Motors" to learn about one of the top companies in the world and how it achieved success.
Download or read book Stages to Saturn written by Roger E. Bilstein and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-09 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important inquiry into the development process and stages of the Saturn launch vehicle that enabled humankind to take some of their first steps towards the stars. Stages to Saturn is a meticulously produced official history in order to tell the globally important story of our quest to step off our planet. Roger Bilstein is one of the world's premier experts in the history and development of aeronautical invention for the purpose of extraterrestrial travel, he has written widely across this field but Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles is his crowning achievement. In places one can dive into the precision of lab notes and in others there are details about the logistics of bringing the best efforts of a society together. The Saturn rocket came into being as part of the Cold War space race, hoping to put an American man on the moon before the end of the 1960s. The Saturn V Rocket was a game changing evolution of technology, as though the wheel was invented and then a blink of an eye later became a water wheel, then two blinks later a steam engine. Roger Bilstein covers everything from the initial research and underpinnings of the manufacturing process all the way to the exciting stages of tests and its world changing missions. For anyone seeking to understand our infancy among the star this book is indispensable as it walks the reader through the puzzles which needed to be solved. This level of innovation at such amazing speed required bringing the best and the brightest minds of the century together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Apollo Program Summary Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Billion Dollar Brand Club written by Lawrence Ingrassia and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading business journalist takes us inside a business revolution: the upstart brands taking on the empires that long dominated the trillion-dollar consumer economy. Dollar Shave Club and its hilarious marketing. Casper mattresses popping out of a box. Third Love’s lingerie designed specifically for each woman’s body. Warby Parker mailing you five pairs of glasses to choose from. You’ve seen their ads. You (or someone you know) use their products. Each may appear, in isolation, as a rare David with the bravado to confront a Goliath, but taken together they represent a seismic shift in a business model that has lasted more than a century. As Lawrence Ingrassia--former business and economics editor and deputy managing editor at the New York Times--shows in this timely and eye-opening book, a growing number of digital entrepreneurs have found new and creative ways to crack the code on the bonanza of physical goods that move through our lives every day. They have discovered that manufacturing, marketing, logistics, and customer service have all been flattened—where there were once walls that protected big brands like Gillette, Sealy, Victoria’s Secret, or Lenscrafters, savvy and hungry innovators now can compete on price, value, quality, speed, convenience, and service. Billion Dollar Brand Club reveals the world of the entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and corporate behemoths battling over this terrain. And what fun it is. It’s a massive, high-stakes business saga animated by the personalities, flashes of insight, and stories behind the stuff we use every day.
Download or read book Space Flight Emergencies and Space Flight Safety a Survey Staff Study for the Subcommittee on NASA Oversight of the Serial E 1967 written by United States. Congress. House. Science and Astronautics and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
