Every day, men and women who have achieved great things both personally and professionally
and reached the very top of the ladder are being put out to pasture to rarely, if ever again,
use the significant gifts and talents that helped them for the first 50 or so years of their lives
Automotive companies have started to respond to changing customer buying behavior by piloting new online business models. However, most current initiatives are still removed from what customers expect.
Every day, men and women who have achieved great things both personally and professionally
and reached the very top of the ladder are being put out to pasture to rarely, if ever again,
use the significant gifts and talents that helped them for the first 50 or so years of their lives
Automotive companies have started to respond to changing customer buying behavior by piloting new online business models. However, most current initiatives are still removed from what customers expect.
Human drivers have always been an essential requirement in the operation of a motor vehicle. At the same
time, research has repeatedly demonstrated that driver error plays a role in more than 90% of road crashes
(NHTSA 2008; Blanco et al. 2016). As such, in the past two decades, vehicle manufacturers have designed new
and increasingly sophisticated features that provide more assistance to drivers to help mitigate such errors. Such
features are an important precursor to the development of automated vehicles and, currently, expectations are
high that the advent of semi- or fully- automated vehicles will dramatically reduce road crashes
The race is on
Clearly, Canadian executives are feeling that the race is on; but it remains to be seen whether they act quickly enough and with the right focus to effectively transform and evolve. Among our findings:
75 percent of CEOs agree that the next three years will be more critical to their industry than the previous 50 years;
74 percent of CEOs believe their company will remain largely the same in the next 3 years;
98 percent are concerned about the loyalty of customers;
13 percent feel confident that they are fully prepared for a cyber-event.
