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ICDP weekly Blog: Seeing through the mist The core of ICDP’s activities is our collaborative research programme which has been running for over thirty years at a European level. This brings players from across the distribution sector – sales and aftersales, manufacturers, dealers, parts distributors and suppliers of services and technology – together to develop a better understanding of the challenges facing us all, and how to address them. https://lnkd.in/e89u4Ah4

Is the sun setting on global automotive? I feel fortunate to have spent most of my working career in a period when the automotive industry and the world at large have been pursuing a path of globalisation. https://lnkd.in/eW5BpaXH

Who’s leading the charge in distribution change? We had our Autumn ICDP Members’ Meeting in Paris this week which gave me an opportunity to visit the Paris Motor Show as well (a ‘proper’, albeit slightly smaller, motor show, with a very impressive showing by a number of serious Chinese brands), but also required me to prepare a couple of the presentations. https://lnkd.in/ebueQ--f

Will increasing regulatory restrictions around the sale of finance products challenge the sector's business models, including agency? At our recent Summer Meeting for our research programme members, we looked at how regulators at European and national level are working to update legislative frameworks increasingly being left behind by digitalisation and innovation in the finance sector, and at how the changes they are introducing will complicate the task of delivering an omni-channel car buying journey to customers. An introduction to the presentation is available to watch here: https://lnkd.in/e-RGpNAY

Dancing with the devil? We're all familiar with the concept of the connected car, mainly from the point of view of how it affects aftersales with the ability to provide over-the-air updates and to capture data from the car such as fault codes, wear levels and other information that would improve planning of aftersales needs. https://lnkd.in/gzCEp9vK

Getting a sense of proportion There are a number of automotive industry related stories running at the moment that are all predicting some extreme outcomes when the reality is probably rather different. https://lnkd.in/eqezYt6i

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Size matters ... It seems a long time since the holiday break… We’re already more than half way through the first month, and in the UK there are Easter eggs in the shops. The first couple weeks back have been pretty action-packed with a mix of research and consultancy activity, but across all of that one of the common themes that has emerged is that scale in downstream distribution (sales and aftersales) matters. https://lnkd.in/e7XkVSNS

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