In Focus
The Comeback of the Electric Car?
How Real, How Soon, and What Must Happen Next
Virtually all leading carmakers are exploring ways to reduce their vehicles' carbon dioxide emissions and increase their fuel efficiency.
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Recent Publications
The Innovation Imperative in Manufacturing:
How the United States Can Restore Its Edge
To compete against global challengers from low-cost countries, companies in the U.
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Tripling the Innovation Success Rate – with Less Effort
Companies can boost the productivity of their innovation programs by taking a systematic, reality-based approach to narrowing their focus. The key is finding out which product ideas consumers will actually pay for – and how much they will pay.
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Industrial Goods
For many industrial companies, traditional competitive models are producing rapidly diminishing returns. Their managers must go beyond the obvious in order to find new sources of profitable growth.
In capital-intensive industries like paper, aluminum processing, and cement, companies are searching for alternatives to the unending fight for global market share and the downward pressure on prices and margins.
In the automotive industry, companies are striving to combine strengths in design and manufacturing with more rigorous brand management and a deeper understanding of the end consumer.
And in nearly every industrial segment, the rapid proliferation of business-to-business e-commerce is transforming how products are made, marketed, distributed, and sold - and by whom.
