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<blockquote data-quote="ionbeam" data-source="post: 1031766" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>Cutting quality has never been a winning business initiative. Yamaha can't balance the books by shorting quality so drop that fear. What they <em>can do</em> is modify how they meet the quality goals. I wouldn't worry about the quality of Yamaha's products, cutting quality = cutting your throat. Plus, cutting quality is just not Japanese.</p><p></p><p>What I see in the article is the current paradigm of managing costs at the corporate level world wide. I read that Yamaha will be adjusting product offerings to focus on solid sales classes. It appears that global sales are strong for middle displacement, middle cost motorcycles. Look for polishing and options for current middle weights and new offerings in lower cost products. From the outside, what we don't see is the cost cutting by reducing design cycle time and development cost savings. Bringing a new product to market is very expensive and time consuming making it the #1 target when a corporation starts cost cutting.</p><p></p><p>So what does this mean to the FJR? My guess is that there may be more changes to save cost like what was done to the front forks. Any new features, functions or upgrades will have to be done with little or no base cost increase, but increase the overall value making the FJR more desirable and increase sales. Since Yamaha is focusing on the strong sales bracket I don't see any revolutionary changes in the FJR until there is more available money in the world wide market. <span style="color: #d3d3d3">I wonder what offering color choices would do to wake up sales in North America?</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ionbeam, post: 1031766, member: 277"] Cutting quality has never been a winning business initiative. Yamaha can't balance the books by shorting quality so drop that fear. What they [I]can do[/I] is modify how they meet the quality goals. I wouldn't worry about the quality of Yamaha's products, cutting quality = cutting your throat. Plus, cutting quality is just not Japanese. What I see in the article is the current paradigm of managing costs at the corporate level world wide. I read that Yamaha will be adjusting product offerings to focus on solid sales classes. It appears that global sales are strong for middle displacement, middle cost motorcycles. Look for polishing and options for current middle weights and new offerings in lower cost products. From the outside, what we don't see is the cost cutting by reducing design cycle time and development cost savings. Bringing a new product to market is very expensive and time consuming making it the #1 target when a corporation starts cost cutting. So what does this mean to the FJR? My guess is that there may be more changes to save cost like what was done to the front forks. Any new features, functions or upgrades will have to be done with little or no base cost increase, but increase the overall value making the FJR more desirable and increase sales. Since Yamaha is focusing on the strong sales bracket I don't see any revolutionary changes in the FJR until there is more available money in the world wide market. [COLOR=#d3d3d3]I wonder what offering color choices would do to wake up sales in North America?[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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