The Car Business Isn’t Just About The Car Anymore
Legacy car rental companies are branching into ride-sharing -- often in the most unlikely places. Princeton set up its program, called Revise Your Ride, to encourage faculty and staff to leave their cars at home.
These are signs of a more sweeping change that's about to overtake a $30-billion-a-year business. It will result in what only a few years ago was unthinkable: a radical new transportation paradigm, where the lines between car ownership, rental, and lease are blurred beyond recognition. In that world, cars will drive themselves and Apple, General Motors, Hertz, and Google will be in the same business.
Read the article at Forbes.
Four Habits Of Highly Ineffective Companies
Most companies are sitting in their comfort zones, feeling pretty good about themselves. Meanwhile, new and forward-thinking companies are ramping up (or currently on the way) to pass them by. It’s just a matter of time before these companies will have to play catch-up if it’s not already too late for them.
At best they are sustaining; at worst, they will be found ineffective and are ripe for disruption.
Companies need to differentiate themselves from their competitors by doing something others can’t or aren’t willing to do. That “something” is customer experience.
Read the article at Forbes.
Repairing Vehicles Where They Are – Cost-Effectively
YourMechanic offers a powerful value proposition for fleets: repairing vehicles where they are, in a highly cost-effective manner.
Disruption, Data and Drivers: Technology is Fundamentally Changing the Fleet Space
By Bernie Kavanagh
We know business people can be notoriously resistant to change, so picture the following scenario for a moment:
Arriving at work, Fran Fleetkeeper scans a large board with dots on a map. Some of the dots are green. Some are red. Some are blinking. These are her company’s vehicles, and she notices some are missing while others are clustered too close for optimal efficiency.
But Fran won’t be pinging her drivers. Instead, she taps her phone to implement “Driver Area Eight,” a navigation overlay that directs vehicles in that area to destinations that better serve her operation.
Alertdriving Launches New Micro-Learning Platform
Alertdriving®, a technology company that provides digital driver risk identification, mitigation and monitoring solutions to organizations with road risk exposure, has launched a new micro-learning platform to better serve its global partners and customers.
Clients can build custom driver safety training programs that include individualized driver learning plans using content from one of three distinct training curriculums: the Professional series that consists of full 15-minute lessons and a comprehensive knowledge assessment, the Essentials series that covers core safe driving topics in 5-minute lessons, and the Express series that features narrowly focused 1-minute snippets.
