product launches.
General Motors
Focus on low-cost, flexible vehicle designs with proven efficiency with high volume production in China to appeal to mid- and upper-end consumers (Lienert & White, 2018).
These strategies will help reduce the price of ell-electric vehicles but their point of origin may become a politically charged region in the foreseeable future, disrupting both manufacturing and marketing planning.
Honda Motor Company
Development of an affordable all-electric vehicle by early 2019 by drawing on its current Urban EV Concept (Honda Urban EV Concept, 2018). Continue Reading...
purpose of this report to is to examine the different strategies and tactics employed by General Motors and Toyota Motor Corporation. These two companies are some of the biggest automotive companies within the United States. Specifically, the report will examine the corporations’ supply chain management, inventory management, quality control, project management, and lean operations.
Background of the Companies
General Motors is one of the biggest automotive companies not only in the United States but also across the world. The company’s international center of operations is situated in the state of Detroit. General Motors conducts its manufacturing processes and has facilities situated in 33 nations across… Continue Reading...
America, Inc., 180 Md. App. 136 (2008), Zitterbart v. American Suzuki Motor Corp., 495 A.2d 372 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2008), and Evans v. General Motors Corp., 459 F.Supp. 2d 407 (D. Md. 2006).
In other words, to determine whether or not the nature of the defect is substantial, it should first be determined whether the defect is covered by the warranty. It should then be determined that the defect presently exists, and it should be shown that the defect substantially impairs the use and market value of the vehicle to the consumer. As substantial is a rather qualitative term and somewhat subjective at that, the first two conditions are the most important ones… Continue Reading...
hub of the booming automobile manufacturing industry in the United States after the General Motors (GM) Corporation located its hub there. When GM established Flint as its base of operations, it triggered the first white flight epidemic, which forever entrenched racist values, policies, and practices into the region. Flint was no different from any other American town or city in this regard, but Flint has become one of the most extreme examples of how sociological factors become inextricably linked to environmental policies. As Ranganathan (2016:17) points out, the classical liberalist mentality that dominated, and continues to dominate, American political discourse has led to… Continue Reading...
General Motors and Chrysler. Taxpayers lost about $30 billion there, but Obama argued that there really was no other option—and he provided American voters with a choice: they could embrace the stimulus plan that he was promoting, they could see things get worse, much worse. The American public chose and by February 2009—just one month into Obama’s first year in office—Congress had signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. This stimulus package was designed to help get companies producing again, help get them hiring again, and help American… Continue Reading...
as Apple Inc.) capitalize on market changes whereas others (such as General Motors) appear to be struggling even with minor alterations demanded by the market or minor internal changes. A broad gap exists in acceptance of change and a corporation might or might not introduce it until it is prepared to adapt itself to such change. A number of factors -- internal as well as external -- come into play in the context of OCM. External factors take the form of technology, governmental policy, societal norms, accumulated costs, and so forth. Meanwhile, internal factors include managerial abilities, worker/trade unions, low profitability,… Continue Reading...
