IF YOU SURVIVE THE TRANSFORMATION THIS MAY BE THE PICTURE OF YOUR DEALERSHIP IN 8 YEARS Early this month both General Motors and Waymo made bold announcements defining timelines to launch their “Robo-Taxi” operations in specific markets. General Motors’ Cruise Automation self-driving unit received a $2.25...
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Human potential is measured by the ability to eliminate limiting beliefs in our subconscious minds and build our self image to be in concert with our aspirations. This is the most important connection between our ambitions and how well our subconscious mind have been programmed...
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KEEPING UP THE GOOD WORK…… As the mobility concept is preparing to transform within the next decade, retail industry still needs to sustain profitability for as long as it exists and some of the shifts in business trends are critical in order to survive. As the cyclical...
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SUBSCRIPTION MODEL IS THE ROAD TO FLEET OPERATIONS For those of you who follow our newsletters will remember the last three issues and the ones prior to that all the way back to December of 2016. We have started alerting auto retail industry regarding the upcoming...
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A survey conducted by a NADA commissioned Luntz Global revealed that 9 out of 10 people said that they would prefer to own their own cars versus using ride hail services. It is like this; if you ask a person who lives in a single...
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In a Wednesday February 21st. presentation to Automotive Press Association, an Ann Arbor based research group claimed that stage 5 autonomous and electric powered vehicles will only make up 4% of the retail sales in the next decade. My response is comparing the opinion to...
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Some of the auto manufacturers are now increasingly blunt about their approach and efforts towards the future of mobility. Few of them demonstrated differences in their strategies towards the shift in their business models regarding the echo system and the transformation of how people will...
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Recap of The Next 5 Years: For those of you who follow us might remember, (if not, all of our publications are on our webpage at www.convergentalliance.com). that since may of 2017 we have estimated 2017 total sales to be under 17MM total and we are on...
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Exactly a year ago during Thanksgiving and then in December 2016, our newsletters reflected everything that was on the November 6 2017 issue of the Automotive News. You can follow the links below to verify. Don’t want to brag about and say “I told you...
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Mobility and transportation of the future and its effects on today’s retail industry is finally recognized by growing amount of authorities. Economists, publications, more importantly now even some retail store brokers have started talking about the eminent indicators of the demise of the auto retailing...
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