Full Bore Into Business - Reid F. Engstrom, director of IS at Harley-Davidson, talks about IT's role in developing business strategies for his company's growth.
Publisher: Network Computing     Author: Doug Barney   

GM Proves E-Business Matters - Slow and steady no longer wins the race. E-business teaches GM to embrace risk and leave a lumbering legacy behind.
Publisher: CIO.com     Author: Derek Slater   

GM's new thin client - General Motors wants to compete by making each of its cars a node on the information highway. Here's why it won't work.
Publisher: Red Herring Magazine     Author: Peter D. Henig   

How ERP Systems Must Meet the Challenges of Automotive Suppliers - Being competitive in the automotive industry requires adopting new management methodologies, such as just-in-time, electronic data communications, and work order-less scheduling and billing. Packaged ERP systems are now incorporating functionality to support these new methodologies.
Publisher: Automfg.com     Author: Lawrence S. Gould   

How Much Is Enough? Like the OEMs, suppliers wrestle with overcapacity - It’s an issue that virtually every large supplier has confronted after building a new plant, launching a new product or making an acquisition.The problem is overcapacity.
Publisher: Wards Interactive     Author: Tom Murphy   

Learning to Change - Donnee Ramelli • The president of General Motors University talks about how the automaker improves itself one employee at a time.
Publisher: DestinationCRM.com     Author: Jeffrey Bartlett   

Lightening Up for the 21st Century - The new century's materials are the same as the old, only a little lighter
Publisher: Wards Interactive     Author: Drew Winter and Tom Murphy   

Motor City Shakeup - In an industry where smart use of supply information can save billions, big carmakers and suppliers are struggling over who will own the electronic flow of information. It's a fight that may be coming to an industry near you.
Publisher: Darwinmag.com     Author: Christopher Koch   

Passing it On: How to keep a shop ‘in the black’ long after you leave the picture - Five shop owners share how they’ve kept things all in the family to ensure their shop’s future longevity.
Publisher: Auto Trim & Restyling News     Author: Stefanie Fleisig O’Connor   

Reinventing ERP after Y2K - The "e" in e-commerce is being added to what has traditionally been viewed as a transaction-based back-office system: ERP. This is making ERP more an equal partner in front-office customer interactions.
Publisher: Automfg.com     Author: Lawrence S. Gould