It is clear that relentless changes are necessary so that all companies, including Ford, can remain competitive. Many agree that Ford, however, does not choose the right approach to evolve. What would be the right approach then?
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vfs+1jWqKRvu do you wear a white suit and tug on BF coat tail. saying "THE PLANE BOSS". When the financials are reported out, I do not see profit for all the trek toys BF wanted. BTW How is that train station? Yeah, I bet you wish you had that $3/4bn back. Morale is in the tank. JF is nothing but a bobblehead. He is not a product guy he proclaims to be. His track record states that. BF he is no visionary he was fired once before buy his own family in 06. DF, Professional job hopper. never stays anywhere more than five years. RED FLAG.
I retired but I feel sad for those left.
ZORRO
Hire more bunny faces like DF
and puppets like JF
Rainbows and unicorns...
@1kfu Ecosport is dead as well. No one noticed that though because it was not competitive.
Ford going right into a recession with no small economy priced vehicles to offer. Gone are fiesta and focus. Eco sport is a futile replacement and is a joke. Fusion is gone. It was fairly priced. We won’t be able to strip down/reduce content fast enough to meet struggling consumers lower price requirements in the coming recession
So if the subscription model is so great , how many $$billions$$ does for make from Sirius/Xmas radio? Sure, it’s owned by Sirius-Xm, but doesn’t ford get some portion of that revenue and would report it out if this subscription model is so great?
Ford will be bankrupt soon.
I disagree with almost every comment on this post, including the OP. Ford is already in the midst of its company transformation. The successes are already occurring. The connected data efforts have enabled the launching of our well received and growing subscription revenues. Blue Cruise is the perfect example of our new business model. The competition is going to be behind us very soon. In some segments, they are far behind us already (Pro Power Onboard anyone?). Where is Toyota and Honda in the data space? How about subscription offerings? I don't see any power generators offered in GM or Ram's offerings?
What I am saying is we are leading and breaking away from our competition. Don't change a thing.
Ford has about 100 board members and “executives” on our website, General Motors has 30. This is a large part of Ford’s problem: why does Ford need 3X the number of executives GM needs? (Hint: FRIENDs AND FAMILY.)
Terminations need to be LL2-5 to correct.
How about seriously cutting minimally half of the senior management. We have way too many. I think we have over double what our competitors have. What have these numbers gotten us. Oh wait, yeah, worst quality levels in the industry
Woke isn't a bad thing. Affirmative action isn't a bad thing. They both acknowledge that certain issues exist in our society.
Half of the people on here complaining about woke and minority hires are just angry that they are losing their white control over everything.
And the funniest part is that white people will always make up the majority in this country - including most companies. These people complaining are just angry that minority inclusion means the white majority had to give up a little even though they still maintain control.
Wokeness and affirmative action will save FoMoCo.
Eliminate wokeness, sadly that will not happen. Ford is doomed.
Maybe trying to actually see if they can retrain white collar workers and benefit from their overall experience and competence instead of just getting rid of them thousands at a time.
People seem to forget the Challenger space shuttle accident was in part due to lowest cost supplier syndrome. ( o ring built for narrower temperature band to Sam EV’s few Pennie’s than it should have been based on past knowledge of temp fluctuations possible at launch). Ford should not be propagating that problem to the employee base, too.
Start with eliminating Ford Next and focus on building RELIABLE vehicles, and I say that as an employee in that group. The ideas we think are going to sell subscriptions will not. We are grasping at straws and chasing rainbows, but believe we caught a unicorn. At the rate we are consuming resources, with very little revenue to show for it, there is no path to profitability and it should be shut down.
The right approach would be to strive to become the best quality manufacturer of affordable vehicles that customers want to buy.
If we could only do that, we could be a successful company.