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With Info-Tech's Industry Roundtables & Benchmarking, you will never again wonder "what are my peers doing?", "how do I compare?", or "what should I be doing?".

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Deep Insights Tailored to Your Industry

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Business-Aligned IT Strategy

Understand the capabilities and focus areas required to meet your industry’s needs and enable value creation.

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Top Industry Trends

Identify resource, process, and environmental trends impacting your industry. Implement strategies to mitigate specific risks and take advantage of all relevant opportunities.

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Industry Benchmarking

Reveal the true state of your IT services, processes, spend, and staffing levels to align your priorities and resources. Benefit from peer data to get a reference point for how well you stack up.

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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection

Arm yourself with everything you need to provide the right solutions to meet the needs of your business stakeholders.

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Business-Aligned IT Strategy


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Automotive Manufacturing Business-Aligned IT Strategy

  • Learn about the ecosystem factors that are impacting the Automotive industry and how your IT team is set from a PESTLE and SWOT perspective, with expert insights and takeaways to update your IT strategy.
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Automotive Manufacturing IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook

  • With input from our research and analysts and your peers, identify new or updated initiatives for your IT strategy and document them in the IT Strategy Initiatives Workbook.
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Automotive Manufacturing Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template

  • Use the Automotive Manufacturing Industry Impacts on IT Strategy: Senior Management Presentation Template to share the key findings of the business-aligned analysis with your organization's leadership team.

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Top Industry Trends


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Automotive Manufacturing Supply Chain Trend Report

  • Automotive manufacturing supply chains are global in nature and always evolving. There are advantages in understanding where opportunities exists for both product expansion and efficiencies in supply chain delivery.
  • Learn about how supply chain affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Automotive Manufacturing Digital Transformation Trend Report

  • Technologies supporting and enabling automotive manufacturing are maturing at a rapid pace.
  • The list is long - Industry 4.0, IT/OT convergence, AI, and RPA are just a few examples. These technologies bring opportunities and challenges to automotive manufacturing.
  • Learn about how digital transformation affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.
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Automotive Manufacturing Skills Gap Trend Report

  • The skills gap in automotive manufacturing is growing. Required skill sets are evolving along with technological innovation.
  • Employers need skilled workers who can learn and adapt with technology. Learn about how skill gap affects both your organization and IT specifically, including challenges and opportunities, with expert assistance.

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Industry Benchmarking


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Automotive Manufacturing IT Stakeholder Satisfaction Benchmarking Report

  • If IT is going to change its role in the organization from one of utility provider to that of a constructive business partner or innovator, IT needs to first build trust as a reliable operator. However, in every IT organization, the business’ satisfaction with IT service delivery can be less than stellar.
  • Understand important focus areas to address and gain insights into how your team compares with other Automotive IT organizations.
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Benchmarking Report: A Cross-Industry Comparison of IT Stakeholder Satisfaction

  • Every industry has unique characteristics that can hamper progress or facilitate success in satisfying IT stakeholders. Reimagine your strategy by shifting the definition of who your peers really are.
  • Discover which industries achieve high stakeholder satisfaction across 13 core IT services.
  • Learn the characteristics that different industries have that can help or hinder IT success.
  • Understand what your industry has in common with others that you can leverage to improve stakeholder satisfaction and overcome your own institutional barriers.
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Automotive Manufacturing IT Staffing Benchmarking Report

  • Many IT departments are already running lean, struggling to keep pace with never-ending demands from the business. IT staffing is stretched thin.
  • By taking the IT Staffing Assessment diagnostic and participating in our unique IT Spend benchmarking, you will gain critical information to position your team to be seen as strategic.
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Automotive Manufacturing IT Management & Governance Benchmarking Report

  • Understanding your IT team’s perception of what’s important and how well they’re doing is central to identifying strengths, weaknesses, and potential misalignments with business priorities and expectations.
  • Learn about how IT departments in your industry assess the importance and effectiveness of 45 IT processes to gauge your own alignment and identify select processes for targeted improvement.

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Core Industry Technologies & Software Selection


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Deliver Operational Efficiency Through Predictive Maintenance

  • Predict: problems based on tolerance.
  • Enable: proactive actions (predictive instead of reactive maintenance).
  • See: prevention of downtime, increased productivity, and higher customer satisfaction.
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Using Supply Chain Control Tower for Competitive Differentiation

A supply chain control tower allows organizations to:

  • Predict problems across the supply chain.
  • Enable real-time information and decision-making capabilities.
  • See where goods are and any bottlenecks that may be occurring.
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Automotive Manufacturing Learning Management Software (LMS) Technology Report

  • Automotive manufacturing, like many manufacturing industries, is facing a skills gap. Advancing technologies, an aging workforce, and the perception that blue collar jobs are not desirable all exacerbate this.
  • Learn about what LMS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
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Automotive Manufacturing Quality Management Software (QMS) Technology Report

  • Automotive quality is an intricate system controlled by well developed processes including ISO-9001, TS 16949. These complex processes require systematic record keeping and tracking including auditability.
  • Learn about what QMS is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
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Automotive Manufacturing Generative Design Technology Report

  • CAD is widely accepted and utilized technology in the automotive manufacturing. Generative design is revolutionizing product design enabling artificial intelligence (AI) to take an active role in designing and optimizing products.
  • Learn about what Generative Design is, the state of the market, key features and functions, and leading vendors in the space in order to understand how it can transform your IT strategy and ability to deliver.
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The Connected Factory

  • Identify: The kinds of compliance, certifications, standards, and regulatory activities that are important for your business sector and products.
  • Prioritize: Further determine which tools can be used for tracking and tracing information, for conducting internal audits, and for generating reports for governing bodies.
  • Align: After establishing what technologies are needed for compliance you will form the team in accordance with initial setup and ongoing management of compliance across all suppliers as well as considerations for management of in-transit control processes such as customs and CTPAT.

Latest Automotive Notes

Short, tailored research notes aimed at providing you with timely insights, relevant to your industry. Hot off the press, these notes will be published regularly and pair great with your morning coffee.

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Meet the Manufacturing Sector Executive Services Leadership Team

Date published

November 7, 2023

Authors:
  • Chris Goodhue

  • Steve Schmidt

Manufacturing is big business for Info-Tech, and so is our dedicated Manufacturing research and advisory services team’s ambition: Ensure that our members in manufacturing companies consistently receive exceptional value from their investment with Info-Tech! We do that by providing material, ongoing support for IT leaders in manufacturing on key IT initiatives, personal/professional development, peer networking, and career advancement.

Manufacturing: Advice From the COVID-19 Roundtable

Date published

March 30, 2020

Authors:
  • Roberto Eberhardt

  • Gleb Lisikh

On March 24, 2020, Info-Tech’s industry practice hosted a Manufacturing Industry Roundtable with the specific focus of identifying the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic is having in the industry. This is a summary of the roundtable discussions around three key issues.

Discussion Summary: Info-Tech LIVE Las Vegas Manufacturing Industry Roundtable

Date published

December 19, 2019

Authors:
  • Jennifer Perrier

  • Roberto Eberhardt

Info-Tech’s Industry Roundtable for Manufacturing generated real-life insight about the key issues facing your peers in this particular space and what IT leaders are trying to do to address them related to Industry 4.0. Relate their insights to your own situation, extract the lessons and advice that make sense to you, and take steps to optimize IT in Manufacturing.

Info-Tech’s Virtual Industry Roundtable for Manufacturing: What Your Peers Had to Say

Date published

November 21, 2019

Authors:
  • Jennifer Perrier

  • Roberto Eberhardt

Info-Tech’s Virtual Industry Roundtables for Manufacturing generated real-life insight about the key issues facing your peers in the space and what IT leaders are trying to do to address them. Relate their insights to your own situation, extract the lessons and advice that make sense to you, and take steps to optimize IT in Manufacturing.

IoT-Enabled Preventive Maintenance: Ready or Not, Here We Come!

Date published

September 20, 2019

Author:
  • Roberto Eberhardt

The promise of the internet of things (IoT) connecting thousands of devices and producing a great deal of information that potentially would change the way the manufacturing industry works is not new. However, those promises have not materialized, at least not at the speed that was originally anticipated. In this note we’ll explore the reasons why the explosion has not occurred and what areas of your organization need consideration if you are planning to deploy it.

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