Having just been appointed interim CEO at General Motors<\/a> earlier this week, ex-AT&T man Ed Whitacre isn’t wasting any time in exercising his newfound authority. According to The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, Whitacre is to announce a number of management changes this morning, including moving Vice Chairman Bob Lutz from his role in marketing to a more product planning-focused role. Whitacre is also expected to promote some of the company’s younger managers to new positions, although it has not yet been revealed who is targeted.<\/p>\n According to the WSJ, Whitacre “drew up the new management blueprint in a matter of four hours,” suggesting to us that he already had a number of changes in mind. Further, he is also expected to combine GM’s sales and marketing divisions<\/p>\n While Whitacre has only been on the job since Tuesday and he is technically only considered an interim appointment at this time, the search for a new CEO is thought likely to take months, if not a year. From the looks of things, Whitacre isn’t looking at himself as simply a placeholder, though, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see more changes as the weeks and months roll by.<\/p>\n *UPDATE:<\/span> Changes confirmed: GM has issued a press release (viewable after the jump<\/a>). Among the moves, Bob Lutz will be an ‘advisor’ on design and global product – he will retain his title of vice chairman. Other changes include Mark Reuss named as president of GM North America, Susan Docherty appointed VP, vehicle sales, service, and marketing operations. For a full list of changes, click past the jump for the release<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n [Source: The Wall Street Journal<\/a> I Image: Bill Pugliano\/Getty]<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Continue reading BREAKING: Whitacre to shakeup GM management, put Lutz in product planning [UPDATE: Confirmed]<\/b><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n BREAKING: Whitacre to shakeup GM management, put Lutz in product planning [UPDATE: Confirmed]<\/b><\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Permalink<\/a> | Email this<\/a> | Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Filed under: Hirings\/Firings\/Layoffs, GM, Earnings\/Financials Having just been appointed interim CEO at General Motors earlier this week, ex-AT&T man Ed Whitacre isn’t wasting any time in exercising his newfound authority. According to The Wall Street Journal, Whitacre is to announce a number of management changes this morning, including moving Vice Chairman Bob Lutz from his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/ed-whitacre-ceo-gm-caddy-blur.jpg\")
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