News From the Auto Industry

While GM is typically talked about in the general media for doing such things as providing great financing deals for consumers, the advances that it has been making during the past few years in terms of revolutionizing its manufacturing Capabilities–and the word revolutionizing is not too strong a word to use–cannot be underestimated in its efforts to increase its market share. Clarke makes an important point about this transformation: “We have a really good team of manufacturing professionals at all levels of the organization, a team that we’ve worked hard to get in place.” He describes them as people who have “a lot of experience, and yet, I think importantly, people who are in the prime of their careers and still have a lot of learning left–they are still at the early part of their enthusiasm curve, so to speak. We need to continue that.”