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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
Strategy Alignment
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.
Strategy Alignment
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.
Strategy Alignment
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
Top Trends
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.
Top Trends
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.
Top Trends
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
Peer Benchmarking
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.
Peer Benchmarking
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.
Peer Benchmarking
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.
Peer Benchmarking
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
Core Industry Technologies
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.
Core Industry Technologies
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.
Core Industry Technologies
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.
Core Industry Technologies
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.
Core Industry Technologies
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.
Core Industry Technologies
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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Manufacturing: Advice From the COVID-19 Roundtable
March 30, 2020
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Discussion Summary: Info-Tech LIVE Las Vegas Manufacturing Industry Roundtable
December 19, 2019
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
November 21, 2019
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!
September 20, 2019
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.
Benchmarking Reports
Industry-specific benchmarking reports built on years of in-depth industry data, collected using our innovative diagnostic programs. We aggregate the data across hundreds of IT departments in your industry to give you tailored vertical insights, all packaged in professional boardroom-ready reports.
Automotive Reference Architecture
Reference architectures built on years of industry expertise, honed by analysts working with real IT professionals in your industry. Leverage industry best practices so you don’t waste time and money reinventing the wheel.