Aditya Mehta / Chief Executive Officer
Perspectives from a life in leadership.
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Indian component makers are being told to move into electric axles and battery systems because that is where an electric vehicle's value sits. I think most should invest where their process skill transfers, and pay only for options where it does not.
Read the essayIndian component makers are being told to move into electric axles and battery systems because that is where an electric vehicle's value sits. I think most should invest where their process skill transfers, and pay only for options where it does not.
Indian auto-component makers treat annual price reductions and below-cost quotations as commercial routine. They are capital-allocation decisions, and a board that never sees return on capital by customer cannot tell whether its largest relationship is an asset or a subsidy.
Many Indian auto-component plants run core production with contract workers beside permanent colleagues doing the same job. The arrangement looks like flexibility. I think it is a hidden risk to safety, quality and industrial peace, and that core roles should become permanent through a skills test.