How an automotive company could change core business
This post was originated as a practical continuation and as an integration to the previous “The automotive dealers haven’t changed core business yet” and for this reason it is necessary to make some clarifications.
For 10 years, if even not more, they tell us the world has changed, or better by making a more careful analysis the world has always changed; in the last few years, however, it is changing faster than we were used to and this implies that the corrections, the alignments must be faster.
The Economic Cycles have temporarily shortened and if, before, it passed 15 years between one cycle and another, today we donÕt even reach 5 years.
This in practical terms means that if we stay 15 years with a business model, we would… Read the rest
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