Please weigh in.
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"Emergency release cord" brilliant analogy.
Looks like Rahul Singh just pulled the emergency release cord too...Wonder what all these folks know that we don't (not that it's stopped the remaining execs paying themselves retention bonuses...)
Didn’t stern just quit lol
Smoke and mirrors accounting
Much of Ford Pro revenues is from the successful services suite that Ford Pro offers. In the Global Town Hall this week, leadership highlighted the story.
Is it true that Ford Blue incurs most of the development costs for Super Duty but all of Super Duty revenue is attributed to Pro?
I think we are years away from delivering anything meaningful for integrated services. That org is now huge with tons of business people that deliver very little. Do we really need separate marketing, comms, finance, strategy, etc to sell a BlueCruise subscription? Anyway I think Peter was probably underwhelmed by the products he was responsible for and likely going to fall very short of ridiculous sales metrics he needed to hit
I retired before Stern joined the company so can't comment on him. I never worked directly with Cannis, however I only heard great things from employees and dealers. Cannis. You have two ends of the spectrum here, a long-time employee who was well respected and a hired-guy who came in to do a job for big $. No surprise Stern left and the others will too after they earn out their big contracts or get bigger offers from outside companies. Cannis got his 35 years (max pension) and will enjoy life not working in a toxic and failing culture. Culture starts at the top.
From the Freep (where’s Phoebe?) on Stern:
“When he was hired at Ford, the automaker said his goal was to "build a world-class team to create and market innovative customer experiences by integrating hardware, software and services across Ford Blue, Model e and Ford Pro.”
Stern is admitting:
There is no “world class team” at Ford
There is no “innovative customer experience” at Ford
There are no “software and services” to integrate at Ford
There should only be Ford Blue at Ford, Model e and Pro are just sham operations
Riding bicycles to nowhere should be a lot easier than vehicle manufacturing.
They both know the search is on for Farley’s replacement, and it isn’t them.
P.S. pretentious snob. Left in 1 year. What a joke and he was paid a fortune.
Stern just took a job at Pelton. He used his extensive experience with spinning his wheels and going no where to land that gig.
They both knew that Ford Pro, Integrated Services and Next are all just smoke, mirrors and accounting maneuvers.