FILE-In this Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, file photo, a sign stands outside Oshawa's General Motors car assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontarrio. General Motors said Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, it will hire as many as 1,500 workers to staff a new computer technology center in the Detroit suburb of Warren, Mich. GM is shifting computer work into the company from outside firms and plans to open four new technology centers in the U.S. Last month the company announced it would hire 500 people for a center in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Michelle Siu)
GM moves to bring computer technology in-house
FILE-In this Monday, Sept. 17, 2012, file photo, a sign stands outside Oshawa's General Motors car assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontarrio. General Motors said Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, it will hire as many as 1,500 workers to staff a new computer technology center in the Detroit suburb of Warren, Mich. GM is shifting computer work into the company from outside firms and plans to open four new technology centers in the U.S. Last month the company announced it would hire 500 people for a center in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Michelle Siu)
By TOM KRISHER
AP Auto Writer /
October 9, 2012
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Outside companies have so much expertise that it will take years for GM to catch up, making it unlikely that the company will completely walk away from outside firms, Robinet says.
Yet with software gaining so much importance in the way all companies operate, it’s even possible that GM will find its next generation of leaders somewhere in the computer centers, says Kirkpatrick.
‘‘CEOs of every company in the future are going to have to be software thinkers,’’ he says.
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