L3 Project Aims to Improve Global Location Decisions
Choosing where to locate new plants or design operations is a high-risk decision for automotive suppliers. A new IMVP effort – the Lean Locational Logic (L3) project – is partnering with suppliers to gather information on current choices, then to create a model to help companies improve their chances of a profitable decision. Learn more.
IMVP Inaugurates Global Automotive Short Course for Rising Stars
Leading IMVP researchers and Wharton School faculty are offering a high-level program to prepare automotive leaders to succeed in today's challenging environment. Rising stars supported by their executives may apply to attend the intensive four-day course plus daylong seminar offered at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 7-11, 2005. Learn more.
The
Second Century Calls for Build-to-Order Customer Focus
A new book by
IMVP researchers is exploding the belief that leaner factories are enough
to revive the auto industry. The Second Century: Reconnecting Customer
and Value Chain Through Build-to-Order describes how the mismatch between
what automakers produce and what consumers want is hampering the industry.
Authors Matthias Holweg, university lecturer at the Judge Institute of Management,
University of Cambridge, and Frits Pil, associate professor at the Katz Graduate
School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, outline ways to reshape the
value chain for sustainable competitiveness.
Read more on The Second Century, published by MIT Press.
Spring 2004 News Update
Stoyan Sgourev, who recently completed a Ph.D. in sociology at Stanford University, began an IMVP Sloan Industry Centers Fellowship at MIT May 1. During the one-year appointment, Sgourev will work with IMVP Principal Investigator Ezra Zuckerman, Sloan School associate professor, on peer group support among auto dealers.
University of Venice Professor of Management Arnaldo Camuffo, an IMVP principal investigator, will begin a one-year sabbatical at MIT's Industrial Performance Center September 1.
IMVP researcher Frits Pil was prompted to associate professor with tenure this spring at the Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He is also a research scientist at the university's Learning Research and Development Center.
IMVP researcher Chunli Lee, who has been promoted to full professor at Aichi University, Japan, began a one-year sabbatical at the Fairbanks Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University April 1.
Hyundai Joins IMVP Sponsor Team, Predicts Record Growth
Hyundai Motor Company, Korea's leading independent automaker and the world's eighth largest automaker, signed a three-year IMVP sponsorship agreement on Dec. 1, 2003. Hyundai, an IMVP sponsor during the 1990s, aims to join the ranks of the world's top five automakers by 2010. Read full story.
For more information, contact Donna Carty at IMVPmail@mit.edu.
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