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For customers and manufacturers alike, high-quality IT in their own vehicle becomes more and more important. While the cubic capacity decreases, the arithmetic achievement of the board computers rises. The costs for a top class system combining sound and navigation mount up to 4,000 Euros. However, the automobile industry will not tolerate sub-suppliers taking over this highly profitable business, according to Stefan Lippautz. They can integrate software manufacturing and data supply, but do not leave the playing field open to them, explains the expert of Arthur D. Little.

The corporation OHB is the aerospace industry’s success story, says Stefan Lippautz. Within 25 years the company from northern Germany developed from a five-person-establishment to the third largest aerospace trust in Europe with 1,600 employees. Soon OHB will have reached a 500 million Euro turnover. “The reason for OHB’s competitiveness is their lean approach,” explains the expert from Arthur D. Little. While other companies still calculate under the slogan “cost plus extra charge,” OHB works with the principle “which price does it take to beat the others and how can we foresee that our costs are below theirs?”

Stefan Stern discusses how times are changing within the consultancy industry. Calling consulting a post-war business success, elite management consultancies have created an enduring mystique. Despite their advice not coming cheap, not all assignments ended positively. However, Stefan goes on to mention Arthur D. Little amongst four of their consultancy’s main competitors, referring to them as “high-quality brands” who offer leadership teams a “luxury insurance policy” and wealth of ideas to work with.

Holistic, balanced and fast innovation management does not only generate a higher turnover, but also a better bottom line. This is one of the results of Arthur D. Littles’s new innovation excellence survey. “Meanwhile top innovators face the problem, that they cannot compare themselves to their competitors within the same industry,” explains Markus Achtert, a principal at the Technology and Innovation Management Practice. For those top innovators it is reasonable to compare their innovation approach merely to those top performers of different branches.

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Dubai-based international UEA airline Emirates, whose objective is to become the world‘s leading airline and have Dubai as the world air hub, is currently doing very well compared to its European competitors.

With its strategic location, passengers of all nationalities, 32 brand new and high capacity A380 aircrafts, low operating costs (30% less than in Europe according to Arthur D. Little), Emirates has multiplied its profits by 5.

Authorised since 8th of June, online bets, even though they are under high surveillance, remain a concern. French Government created an online game regulation authority (ARJEL) to deliver licenses to gambling operators but also to fight against fraud and pathological gambling addictions (campaigns, warnings etc).

Since the betting market opened, Arthur D. Little foresees that the total amount of bets on the internet will reach 4.45m Euros in 2015.

This article discusses Lean in the NHS. Given rising patient expectations, an aging population and shortages of medical staff, major challenges face the healthcare sector today. Petter Kilefors is quoted at the top of this article pointing towards increasing productivity as the only solution to these problems. The article includes two graphs taken from Arthur D. Little’s PRISM “Controlling healthcare costs by improving the productivity of medical service providers.”

Simon Brooke, a UK freelancer, looks into what the future holds for Lean and Six Sigma and how perhaps instead of being seen as individual projects within an organization, they are now being implemented from a strategic point of view. Following an interview with Petter Kilefors and Daniel Winther, Petter is quoted on his views on implementing Lean into the UK healthcare sector following the vast improvements Arthur D. Little’s applied Lean strategy has made in Sweden – where primary care clinics have witnessed a 41% increase in productivity.

Google is about to conquer yet another screen: TV. The planned service “Google TV” will be based on Android, an operating system that is already often used with smartphones. “The integration into terminals and the possibility to use TV-content with Android on the PC, mobile phone and TV will change media consumption dramatically,” says Juergen Morath from Arthur D. Little. “Moreover, Google motivates developers to design new Apps for their TV,” continues the consultant.