The Mobility Revolution in the Automotive Industry

How not to miss the digital turnpike

verfasst von: Dr. Sebastian Wedeniwski

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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The Internet of Things, cloud computing, connected vehicles, Big Data, analytics — what does this have to do with the automotive industry? This book provides information about the future of mobility trends resulting from digitisation, connectedness, personalisation and data insights. The automotive industry is on the verge of undergoing a fundamental transformation. Large, traditional companies in particular will have to adapt, develop new business models and implement flexibility with the aid of appropriate enterprise architectures. Transforming critical business competencies is the key concept. The vehicle of the digital future is already here — who will shape it?

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

1. Introduction

Abstract

Every company has its very own enterprise architecture – even if its staff are not aware of this – and in times of technological change, it is particularly important to deal with this issue. The automotive industry has already entered such a phase. Even if most companies are now well aware of this: What can be done about it now? The significance that enterprise architecture has had until now in no way automatically secures companies a place in the mobility industry of the future, which is still in the process of formation. It is therefore high time for us to look at the architecture of our own companies in a critical light – because once we really see it right from its foundations, this is the best possible basis for adapting it to new challenges.

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2. Enterprise Architectures: Surrounded by Historical Structures

Abstract

For millennia, mobility was all about horses. That was until the automobile revolution began about a century ago, when the era of the mass production of identical products started to affect mobility too. Nowadays, digitalisation is once again turning everything upside down and taking us – in a new, different way – from the pre-fabricated product for anyone back to the idea of individual solutions. In the automotive industry, with its structures oriented towards vehicle architecture which have developed over decades since the times of Henry Ford, it is often hard to know which is the right path to take towards the future, which will be shaped by digitalisation. Personalised vehicles? Connected vehicles? Car-sharing? There is no shortage of ideas. But how can they be used to complement the existing business model?

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3. Strategy, Business Model and Architecture in Today’s Automotive Industry

Abstract

How does a business “work”? If one ignores things which are specific to a particular business for a moment: There is a business model to describe how the business is currently earning money, and a strategy to describe how it wants to earn money after a certain period of time has passed – this may be exactly the same or something completely different: in other words, a new business model. Business competences are of central importance – in terms of both the implementation of the business model and the strategy. In this chapter, we will draft a generalised model of the enterprise architecture of a company in the automotive sector, which will describe how business model and strategy interact in the enterprise architecture. Combined with the individual specificities of a particular company, it forms the basis for its development from the automotive industry into the mobility industry.

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4. Digitalisation of the Industry from the AUTOmobile to the autoMOBILE

Abstract

There are four market forces which are developing gradually towards a mobility industry – from different directions and with different business competences. In addition to vehicle manufacturers, these include technology and electronics companies, public transport companies and mobility service providers. But influences from elsewhere can also be expected: from political regulations to evolving societal expectations of mobility, and economic uncertainties. What does this mean for the automotive industry? How can its enterprise architecture be adapted in such a way that it is equipped in the best possible way for the change? Chap. 4 attempts to provide an answer to this question.

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Backmatter

Titel: The Mobility Revolution in the Automotive Industry
verfasst von: Dr. Sebastian Wedeniwski
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-662-47788-5
Print ISBN: 978-3-662-47787-8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47788-5