Automotive Strategy, Planning & Analysis: IHS Automotive

In a world where success or failure depends on solid market planning, IHS Automotive products supply customers with the foresight they need to make better, more well-informed decisions oriented to the highest return while mitigating risk. Our automotive market forecasting services and strategic advisory solutions are trusted by automotive OEMs, Suppliers, Financial Firms and Governments around the world. Our insights help customers make the strategic decisions that sharpen their competitive edge.

With a unique global perspective, we understand the forces in play: market, product, technological, economic, financial, trade, transportation, energy, regulatory, demographic and political. We understand the ways these forces interact to influence automotive industry market opportunities. IHS Automotive products can help you:

• Evaluate a market's potential, risk and opportunity
• Quantify market-segmentation shifts
• Assess the accuracy of customer forecasts and your internal business plan
• Analyze your competitors' product, technology, market and manufacturing strategies
• Stay abreast of the latest news and analysis related to OEMs and suppliers
• Assess technology-related risks and opportunities
• Know which suppliers are being sourced
• Strategically target new programs
• Identify realistic goals
• Reduce vulnerability to market forces
• Help assure your continued success

IHS Automotive products and services help you stay ahead in this complex, fast-changing industry:

• Light vehicle forecasts:  Sales, production and powertrain forecasts for light vehicles up to six tons, featuring over 250 brands and 2,000 models. 
• Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles forecasts: Sales, production, and powertrain forecasts by country, manufacturer, brand and weight sector, along with company profiles for the major producers
• Industry headlines and analysis: Same-day and ongoing analysis of automotive news and events to keep you informed about the key issues affecting light-vehicle, truck and component manufacturers. 
• Component sourcing and supply chain: From databases mapping components/suppliers and models/OEMs to original research and market analyses of materials, components, modules and systems. 
• Powertrain and Alternative propulsion systems: Forecasts and cycle plans for ICE engines across varied fuel types, transmissions, hybrid and electric systems.  Weekly and monthly newsletters, special reports and news postings that focus on the changing developments on a range of propulsion and charging options for hybrid and electric vehicles. 
• Technology Analysis: Business and product intelligence for automotive infotainment, driver assist and HMI/usability technologies
• Advisory services: Strategic consulting to help automotive manufacturers and suppliers grow their business through the synthesis of data and original research.

Welcome to our first issue: Choices and Change

Welcome to the first quarterly newsletter from IHS Automotive. The objective of this newsletter is to provide you with brief insights about selected factors that impact your business-, product- and market-planning activities. We welcome your feedback and hope to engage with you further on these and other important “beyond the numbers” considerations. More

The following technology reviews are abridged samples of detailed reviews found on the IHS Automotive Human-Machine Interface/Usability Portal. In addition to these reviews the portal examines all late-model vehicles to better understand their usability nuances and provides independent and unbiased usability and benchmarking analysis of infotainment features on existing and upcoming vehicle models. To access a sample of one of the abridged reviews:

• See a complete list of our abridged Vehicle Technology Reviews.
• Find out more about our Technology Analysis portals.

IHS Automotive provides expert analysis and deep industry insight across all aspects of the automotive industry. Spanning the entire OEM automotive value chain, from production forecasts and component sourcing, through powertrain and infotainment technologies, to sales forecasts and retailer/aftermarket analysis, IHS Automotive provides OEMs, suppliers, financial firms and governments with the analysis, forecasts, data and consulting services they need to enable smarter business decisions.

IHS Automotive represents the integrated strengths of several key acquisitions, including Global Insight and its subsidiaries: SupplierBusiness and Hybrid-EV.com (2008), CSM Worldwide and iSuppli (2010), and IMS Research and  BDW Automotive (2012). Together, we offer the most comprehensive content and deepest expertise and insight on the automotive industry available anywhere in the world today.

Our qualifications include:

• 160+ automotive expert analysts fluent in 15 languages with an average of over 10 years of industry experience
• Presence in 20 offices around the world
• Global list of clients accounting for over 85% of the world's top OEMs and suppliers 
• Supported by over 350 economists and analysts covering more than 170 industries in over 200 countries 
• Access to the world's largest commercial economic and financial database 
• Reliable intelligence and insight from the most consistently accurate forecaster in the industry