der abgang von jaj ist ein grosser verlust für saab und ganz sicher hat saab und die ganze belegschaft diesem mann alles zu verdanken.
es scheint eine deutsche eigenschaft zu sein, bei allen veränderungen gleich loszuunken.
so sehr ich den abgang von jaj auch bedauere und es sehr gerne gesehen hätte, wenn er als gallionsfigur noch an bord bleiben würde, sind veränderungen etwas normales und unvermeidbar, zumal er offiziell sowieso 2011 ausscheiden wollte.
ob mehr dahinter ist, wissen wir alle nicht - ein aktueller beitrag von saabsunited trifft es ganz gut:
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There has been a lot of speculation and comments in the media regarding Jan-Åke’s decision to leave his post at SAAB.
E24, like always, bring in their “german expert” who of course tells the doomsday story about SAAB losing money and Spyker having no money left. With the words “It will take a miracle” they describe the german expert: Ferdinand Dudenhöffer’s opinions about SAAB. Well, we all know, and have known, his feelings about SAAB and one can only ask if he is trying to promote the german brands by talking trash about others? He has so many questions about SAAB and while reading the article I sort of get the feeling that he is short-sighted, he can only see one solution to a problem and does not understand that things can be handled in different ways… The fact that he is a professor does not strike me as impressive or make him an “expert” in any way. Things change, the world is changing and I don’t think he can actually see that…
Here is a translation from the article:
He has said it before and he is saying it again: SAAB will not survive in the medium to long term. Todays news that the last swede in SAAB’s managment team, CEO Jan-Åke Jonsson, who is now leaving SAAB is a tough beat for the company, but it is not a deciding factor for the car manufacturers future. Swedish CEO or not. It will take a miracle to save SAAB and I dont know any CEO who achieves real miracles, say Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, who is a professor in auto-economics at Duisburg-Essen university. After Jan-Åke Jonsson take leave the SAAB owner and Spyker Cars chairman Viktor Muller, is now to take charge of the SAAB “car” with two steering-wheels. As CEO and Chairman. Does he and Spyker have the competence to develop SAAB and reach the goal of break-even numbers by 2012?
- What Muller does as CEO for Spyker is a smaller market. Thinking about SAAB he needs to compete with larger volumes and newer models which is a completely different world. He might be able to keep going for a while, but not in the long run.
Last year Spyker Cars sold 31 696 cars, which in a way is an increase with 15% compared with 2009 but in a totally different league than the competition in the market where SAAB is acting.
- Even if SAAB reaches 50-100’000 cars, its not enough. They have to double the prices to be profitable say Ferdinand Dudenhöffer.
The professors prognosis is that the customers are running away from SAAB since SAAB falls between two chairs. The company can not reach the volumes and advantages to compete in the premium-segment with Volvo, BMW or Audi. SAAB/Spyker is not exotic enough to compete with Ferrari, Aston Martin or Lamborghini.
- I think SAAB is being erased step by step. They must manage large costs to turn the structure around. Spyker has no experience in developing 300-400 000 cars, they have neither suppliers, production, design, sales or the engineers for such manufacturing say Ferdinand Dudenhöffer.
I find it absolutely amazing that he can make such assumptions without even having seen the businessplan and to my knowledge ever even sat foot in Trollhättan or seen any of SAAB’s facilities and most important of all: never understood the “saab-spirit” of the people working there.
I have been following SAAB for the last 12 years, also worked at the company for more than a year, also know so many people there, read all the books written about SAAB and my opinion in all of this is absolutely clear: I don’t think JAJ would leave SAAB and let all his hard work go down the drain, if he didn’t feel at ease about SAAB’s current situation and that SAAB will, “as so elegantly said by Mr Spock in Star Trek”, live long and prosper
We thank you Jan-Åke for your fantastic work with SAAB and we at SaabsUnited, hope to get the chance to speak to you about your time at SAAB sometime in the near future!
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den ewigen vergleich mit audi etc. kann doch niemand mehr hören und eigentlich dachte ich, dass es sich hier um menschen handelt, die einen saab wollen und eben keinen audi der audi ist sicher ein sehr gutes auto - aber eben kein saab. wenn ich einen audi präferieren würde, wäre ich im audi-forum.
saab muss autos verkaufen - glücklicherweise gibt es inzwischen einige mehr ausser mir, die dazu beigetragen haben.
