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Link: GM Opens the Door to Online New-Car Sales – WSJ.com

October 13, 2013 By brenda michelson

“By the end of this year, GM plans to extend a Web-based application, called Shop-Click-Drive, to its entire dealer network. The app would let new-car buyers use their computer screen to lock in the price of a new car, get an estimate of the trade-in value of their old car, apply for financing and even arrange a test drive or delivery of their new vehicle.

GM’s app acts as an electronic door to its independent brick-and-mortar dealers, and so represents a cautious step toward adapting to consumers whose experience with online shopping for appliances and other goods has made them less willing to visit showrooms.”

via Diigo source link: WSJ.com

Filed Under: links Tagged With: digital, stream

Link: Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing – NYTimes.com

October 13, 2013 By brenda michelson

“It was the act of drawing that allowed us to speculate.”

Source Link: NYTimes

via Diigo

Filed Under: links, thinking styles Tagged With: archive_0, stream

Link: disrupt thyself

October 13, 2013 By brenda michelson

“Success in self-disruption requires at least the following six elements:

1. An autonomous business unit. The unit should have all the functional skills it needs to succeed, freeing it from reliance on the parent organization, and it must not report to the business or businesses that are being disrupted.

2. Leaders who come from the relevant “schools of experience.” These leaders have addressed a variety of challenges, especially in the kinds of problems the new growth business will face. They are often necessarily sourced from outside the organization.

3. A separate resource allocation process. This will fund the unit regardless of the fortunes of the core business.

4. Independent sales channels. These should not be required to coordinate with or defer to the existing sales organization.

5. A new profit model. In most cases it will reflect priorities different from those of the core business. You can expect the new unit to do as well as the core in terms of net profit per dollar of sales, but the formula for generating that profit (such as gross margins or asset turns) must be different.

6. Unwavering commitment by the CEO. He or she must be willing to spend an inordinate amount of time understanding and guiding the development of the new business and must protect it from the natural desire on the part of managers in the core business to shut it down and appropriate its resources.”

source link: HBR article on Disrupting Consulting

Additional disruption of consulting in Scott Berkun’s Consultants Should All Get Real Jobs

[post updated 11-21-2014 to excerpt full list, eliminating intermediate hop to my tumblr].

Filed Under: change, links Tagged With: archive_0, consulting, disruption, stream

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