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Talking the Lead
IBM automotive industry research and thought leadership
Turn obstacles into opportunities. Leverage flexibility and innovation. Drive change in your industry and break away from the status quo. Draw on the full breadth of IBM capabilities, deep business process and automotive expertise. Below are five of our recent automotive industry research papers addressing current automotive challenges and opportunities that provide strategic insight and analysis for senior business executives around these issues.

Break away from the status quo
At the Automotive Supplier Jam In March, 2007, 2,000 professionals from 150 organizations addressed challenges facing the North American supplier industry. Read the results of the Jam.
Break Away from Status Quo (3.1MB)


Change lanes for success
In this study from the IBM Institute for Business Value, we set out to identify why many automotive companies are successful, despite what appears to be a difficult industry environment.
Changing lanes for success: executive summary (152KB)
Changing lanes for success: the complete study (240KB)


The future of automotive in India
IBM Institute for Business Value paper provides in-depth personal interviews with Indian automotive executives, experts and government officials.
Inside India (723KB)


The future of the automotive industry in China
This IBM Institute for Business Value paper uncovers the opinions of 20 leaders in the Chinese automotive industry and the government, as well as academic experts on the future of the automotive industry in China.
Inside China: executive summary (145KB)
Inside China: the complete study (413KB)


Drive innovation
This paper from IBM Global Business Services explores the challenge of unlocking new innovation and the opportunities it presents to the enterprises that do it most effectively, based on actual response data from the automotive executives interviewed for the 2006 Global CEO Study.
Driving innovation: five opportunities for the automotive industry (345KB)


Resources
Automotive resource library