April 2015
Beginner
480 pages
107h 32m
English
5-4 Discuss contemporary issues in planning.
The second floor of the 21-story Hyundai Motor headquarters buzzes with data 24 hours a day. That’s where you’d find the company’s Global Command and Control Center (GCCC), which is modeled after the CNN newsroom with numerous “computer screens relaying video and data keeping watch on Hyundai operations around the world.” Managers get information on parts shipments from suppliers to factories. Cameras watch assembly lines and closely monitor the company’s massive Ulsan, Korea, factory looking for competitors’ spies and any hints of labor unrest. The GCCC also keeps tabs on the company’s R&D activities in Europe, Japan, and North America. Hyundai ...