Comments on: GM’s intellectual property smokescreen? http://blog.voxsapiens.com/2009/09/10/gms-intellectual-property-smokescreen/ Intelligent Commentary on Society and Business Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:21:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: TheVoice http://blog.voxsapiens.com/2009/09/10/gms-intellectual-property-smokescreen/comment-page-1/#comment-11 TheVoice Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:38:02 +0000 http://blog.voxsapiens.com/?p=164#comment-11 VoxSapiens update: This 16 September Reuters article - <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE58G0AD20090917" target="_blank rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE58G0AD20090917</a> - includes a very interesting admission that the suppliers are getting the upper hand ... <em>"The fact is the balance of power has somewhat shifted," General Motors Vice President Carl-Peter Forster told a dinner Wednesday evening that was organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany on the occasion of the Frankfurt auto show. The head of GM in Europe and the likely candidate to run Opel said carmakers needed to reevaluate their strategy. "We all had the vision that the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) should just assemble bits and pieces, do a little bit of marketing, a little bit of design and all the rest would be done by suppliers," he said. "That was a nice vision. It sounds very lean, but the profit making opportunity is also shifting to the ones that have the technological knowhow. That is in very many cases now the supplier industry," the GM Europe president told the dinner.</em> VoxSapiens update:

This 16 September Reuters article – http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE58G0AD20090917 – includes a very interesting admission that the suppliers are getting the upper hand …

“The fact is the balance of power has somewhat shifted,” General Motors Vice President Carl-Peter Forster told a dinner Wednesday evening that was organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany on the occasion of the Frankfurt auto show.

The head of GM in Europe and the likely candidate to run Opel said carmakers needed to reevaluate their strategy.

“We all had the vision that the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) should just assemble bits and pieces, do a little bit of marketing, a little bit of design and all the rest would be done by suppliers,” he said.

“That was a nice vision. It sounds very lean, but the profit making opportunity is also shifting to the ones that have the technological knowhow. That is in very many cases now the supplier industry,” the GM Europe president told the dinner.

]]> By: motormouth http://blog.voxsapiens.com/2009/09/10/gms-intellectual-property-smokescreen/comment-page-1/#comment-10 motormouth Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:11:57 +0000 http://blog.voxsapiens.com/?p=164#comment-10 Geely is in the news again about this issue. Reuters reports that Geely is talking to Magna about a partnership for Opel. So both Ford and GM might be concerned about Geely taking IP to China. Geely is in the news again about this issue. Reuters reports that Geely is talking to Magna about a partnership for Opel. So both Ford and GM might be concerned about Geely taking IP to China.

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