Leaders within the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance are refreshing their strategy for the group of companies to recover from troubles faced recently, Automotive News Europe reported. The strategy will see the alliance divide their scope geographically, with each alliance member to drive operations in regions where they are the strongest, it said.
The four-member panel is comprised of Renault chairman Jean-Dominique Senard, Renault interim CEO Clotilde Delbos, Mitsubishi chairman Osamu Masuko and Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida. This will see Renault lead the charge in Europe, Nissan to lead in China and Mitsubishi to lead the thrust in Southeast Asia, the report said. The alliance did not specify a point company for North America, though Nissan is the largest player of the alliance members in that market.
The companies will now also divide engineering work with a leader-follower approach, where one company leads research and development as well as product development in a given area, and the other companies send personnel to the lead company for assistance. This will differ from the previous approach where teams worked in tandem, according to the report.
Aspects of the engineering work to be newly divided up include the upper bodies of vehicles, as well as platforms and powertrains. Renault will also be given the lead role in the development of light commercial vehicles as part of the new redistribution of tasks.
“The auto industry is facing big transformations. We have discussed how to fully utilise the strength of each entity,” said Nissan CEO Makoto Uchida. The new strategy was agreed to by the Alliance Operating Board, a new steering committee launched in March last year following the arrest of former leader Carlos Ghosn in 2018.
The move to redirect the alliance comes as it struggles with dropping sales and profits, as well as to capitalise on the alliance’s promise of very large scale and combined resources, according to Automotive News Europe; combined global deliveries across the alliance’s brands fell 5.6% to 10.2 million units in 2019.
The Alliance Operating Board, or AOB created an alliance general secretary position last month for the coordination of major projects across the alliance’s three carmakers. This position has been given to Hadi Zablit, who had served as senior vice president of business development at the alliance since March 2018.
Projects led by Zablit included the development of the Common Module Family A (CMF-A) platform for small vehicles. In his role as alliance general secretary, Zablit is charged with boosting efficiency of joint operations across the companies in order to increase operating profits across the board, said Automotive News Europe.
Nissan is set to hold an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting in February 18 to appoint Uchida and several other new directors to its board, and this gathering will also be where the Japanese automaker shares the latest details on its restructuring plans, the report added.
In addition to Uchida, in the running for the new director roles are Nissan COO Ashwani Gupta, executive V of manufacturing and supply chain management Hideyuki Sakamoto, as well as Renault nominee Pierre Fleuriot.
good job Japanese. At least you know how to divide your work. Don’t become like Proton, tak tentu arah sampai can lose so much of money and need billions in bailout
Another of Ghosn prediction is coming true. This is the start to the breakup of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance and soon the end of Nissan themselves.
Nissan is so ungrateful. When they were down, when they were practically bankrupt, they went to Renault begging on their knees for help.
And Renault was so generous to send in their best A Team and their best CEO and tons of money to save them. And save them they did, all thanks to Ghosn whose achievements are like Messiah. And what the japanese did, they backstabbed him and paraded him around to be shame just like Messiah. They were about to sacrifice him just like Messiah but he was smart to run in the end. Japan didn’t syukur for him coming to save them but instead wanted to end him. And there are many examples like these japanese that never syukur for being saved.
These japanese and others like them don’t deserve leaders such as Ghosn & Najib & Mesiah that only appears once in 2000 years, willing to put everything they had into saving their company/country/souls, but see what those got saved do to them? Jailed, spat at, publicly humiliated, willing to sacrifice them w/o thinking what they had done to save them.
The world and its people and history doesn’t deserve such luminaries.
Even better is Perodua. Daihatsu do all the work, Perodua just slap on a badge and can claim national car status already. Cheating is easy for Perodua and its goons!
What good did they do? They still need to be told by Renault what to do. 100 years of automotive history and they are still in a crisis even after getting saved. They are shutting down plants, firing people, scandals popping up everywhere, worldwide recalls, and within 3 years they will be bankrupt. So whatever good done was coming from Renault and Ghosn, these Japanese didn’t do anything accept backstabbing their own saviours.
I will feel so shy if someone did my homework and I got an A for it.
I won’t even tell people my results.
Goes to show even Renault-Nissan-Mitsu alliance cannot trust ETCM Nissan but they believed in DRB Mitsu. Well done DRB!
Ex Proton CEOs should be arrested like Ghosn also for all the losses suffered by Proton.
Cause they could not identify the leakages in 20 years despite Li Chunrong identifying them in 6 months.
Meanwhile in other countries:
https://paultan.org/2020/01/30/nissan-reportedly-planning-to-cut-4300-jobs/
The lowly workers gets the boot but not the top managers at fault. So when is Nissan going to arrest their managers for these failures?
Osem… Rebadged Proton Triton incoming,
First thing, a
revitalized Mitsubishi sedan & hatchback line-up is a must!
Nah, expect facelifted Mirage and Attrage until 2030. Even better, bring back the Lancer still selling in Taiwan.
I am so ashamed that Mitsubishi still churning out Lancers, even Proton have long stop their Inspira production and phased out the car but Mitsubishi is still producing such and old car. What have their bosses and staff doing for so many years? Tidur and minum sake 8X? They should come learn from DRB boys how to be more productive.
Hope they will recamp and restructure their EV vehicles marketing and prices… To he more competitive and inviting to consumers… Hope they would listen to consumers for a change… The Nissan Leaf for example….