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Can you imagine a life without your pocket-sized ‘butler’? The smartphone has become a necessity today, it makes our life easier and more comfortable thanks to the many apps. The more our little,...
View ArticleThe NTT R&D Forum 2017: holograms, smart shirts and artificial co-driver in...
Last week, I was really appreciative of the fact that our parent company NTT invests heavily into research & development. The 6.000 researchers used the opportunity to show their latest innovations...
View ArticleThinking about IT Transformation
This is an initial blog of a series dedicated to the topic of IT Transformation. This series entails themes about triggers, goals, definitions, patterns, practices, tools and challenges of the IT...
View Article“My Car is My Office”: From a Car to an Office on Wheels
The development of a fully connected vehicle will completely redefine customers’ future understanding and their expectations. Manufacturers must place a greater emphasis on the customer if innovative...
View ArticleDriving electric mobility: the Norwegian model as an example?
There is a tremendous gap between one’s aspirations and reality. Germany would like to lead the market for electric cars. The government has set the goal of having one million e-cars on Germany’s roads...
View ArticleConnected car, connected driver & mobility customer – how connectivity is...
Connected cars are not anything new. They have been around for over a decade. It’s what they can do now and will be able to do in the near future that is truly revolutionary. They are dramatically...
View ArticleSmall lifebelts in a sea of information
Thanks to the internet, we can access an unlimited amount of information. However, this unlimited wave of information can also often leave us feeling overwhelmed, drowning us in a flood of...
View ArticleDigitization as success factor in the world’s largest automotive market
Around the international Auto Shanghai Show this year, further car centered events have taken place. The first Car Symposium Shanghai at Tongji University under the headline “Success Factors in the...
View ArticleCustomer Management in Used Car Business
Photo: Jorg Mühlenberg, Munich To get a lemon car is people’s major concern when buying a used vehicle: Has it been abused, improperly maintained or poorly repaired? Ironically, the brand name of the...
View ArticleIndustry 4.0 – but integrated
Industry 4.0 – a nice vision: flexible and intelligent machines produce equally intelligent physical products, based on virtual product models. During their use, these products report their operational...
View ArticleTrends en la Industria Automotriz – Datos, el aceite del siglo 21.
¿Qué nos traerá el futuro? ¿Tendremos teléfonos inteligentes conectados a redes sociales o servidores de red móviles con cabina virtual sobre cuatro ruedas? Es indiscutible la innovación en el vehículo...
View ArticleAutomotive industry trends: Data as 21st century oil
Importance of car industry innovation What will the future be like? Will our vehicles mutate to intra-connected smart phones on four wheels or mobile network servers with virtual cockpits? One thing is...
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