ICDP
Automotive distribution and retailing research, insight, implementation
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In-house workshops and webinars

In-house webinars and workshops

 
 
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  • Deep industry expertise delivered directly to your team

  • Inform, stimulate, debunk and debate

  • Closed sessions, including how trends and challenges apply to your business

  • Scope determined by you, drawing on our wide range of research materials

  • Cost and time effective

The automotive sector is currently facing an unprecedented range of challenges, and considerable uncertainty around how different types of player should respond.  The priorities that our members have highlighted cover a range of topics across sales and aftersales as shown in the image.

We regularly hold in-house workshops and webinars with our research programme member companies and others to think through the implications of these and other issues, and to inform strategic decisions and senior leadership, staff and partner communications.

We can offer insight on a range of topics.  Recent examples include:

  • Understanding consumer trends

  • Retail strategy development and evaluation of distribution model options

  • National sales company/independent importer role

  • Dealer group strategy and operations

  • Block Exemption implications

  • Modelling of new vehicle supply solutions

  • Responding to aftersales market decline

  • Parts distribution strategy

  • Crash repair trends

  • Issues around the ‘connected car’

  • Used car superstores

  • Preparing for tougher environmental regulation

  • Implementation of lean dealer processes

  • Market assessments and entry plans.

A flexible offer that can be adapted to your needs, either face-to-face or online.

The agenda and format can be tailored to suit the number, role, and needs of those who will participate, ranging from full topic presentations to informal interactive ‘whiteboarding’ sessions, and an hour to a full day or more in duration, and from small internal groups to larger-scale partner events.  Whilst face-to-face sessions remain difficult in the current environment, we have found that online workshops and webinars can function very effectively, either with company attendees together in the same room if technology and social distancing requirements permit, or with everybody connecting individually from their own devices and locations.

For online sessions, we use the Zoom platform, which we have found to be reliable and secure, offering access via a range of devices, including phone dial-in if necessary, as well as features including break-out groups and polls.  Session lengths, presentation styles, and group tasks ahead of and during the meeting, etc. can all be adapted to suit the online environment.

As with all ICDP meetings, in-house workshops and webinars are conducted in confidence, and in full compliance with our competition and anti-trust policy.

We make a modest charge for our dedicated in-house workshops and webinars to reflect our time needed to prepare and deliver the material.  ICDP research programme member companies also enjoy a further 20% discount on our usual consultancy rates.  For face-to-face sessions, we also ask for our travel/incidental expenses to be covered.

We encourage you to draw on ICDP’s knowledge and experience to help you face up to the challenges that lie ahead by inviting us to join you on an in-house workshop or webinar. 

For more information, please contact us at projectoffice@icdp.net and further details are available in the flyer below: