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Future Automotive Readiness Assessment

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Imagine a world where vehicles are intelligent, adaptive companions—like Emma’s SDV in NeoDrive City. Achieving this future requires readiness in key areas, and the SDV Readiness Assessment evaluates your company’s preparedness across eight critical dimensions: Innovation Management, Specification, Culture & Skills, Verification, Concept & Design, Development, Variants & Lifecycle Management, and Support & Coordination.
Just as Emma’s SDV effortlessly navigates challenges, your organization must align its capabilities to build vehicles that deliver such intelligence and adaptability. The assessment provides a clear picture of your strengths, areas for improvement, and actionable insights to bridge the gap between today’s reality and the SDV future.

Imagine a world where vehicles are intelligent, adaptive companions—like Emma’s SDV in NeoDrive City. Achieving this future requires readiness in key areas, and the Future Automotive Readiness Assessment evaluates your company’s preparedness across eight critical dimensions: Innovation Management, Specification, Culture & Skills, Verification, Concept & Design, Development, Variants & Lifecycle Management, and Support & Coordination.

Just as Emma’s SDV effortlessly navigates challenges, your organization must align its capabilities to build vehicles that deliver such intelligence and adaptability. The assessment provides a clear picture of your strengths, areas for improvement, and actionable insights to bridge the gap between today’s reality and the SDV future.

Through eight targeted questions, the assessment enables you to measure your preparedness for software-defined vehicles, assess automotive digital transformation readiness, and understand how ready your business is for future mobility. The results provide a readiness score, a gap analysis, and tailored recommendations, helping you evaluate your automotive innovation capabilities and take strategic steps toward future-proofing your business.

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Innovation Management

Specification

Culture & Skills

Verification

Concept & Design

Development

Variants & Lifecycle Management

Support & Coordination

1. Innovation Management

This category assesses your company's ability to anticipate future trends, technologies, and developments relevant for the automotive industry and incorporate them into your innovation strategy. It also evaluates whether your leadership is equipped with the necessary foresight capabilities to proactively drive the company towards a competitive future.

How well is your company able to identify future trends and developments in the automotive industry and integrate them into its innovation strategy?*

Our company not only has a dedicated foresight unit but also an innovation process in place, which is supported by a leadership that is embracing innovation. This combination allows us to anticipate future trends early and proactively adjust our innovation strategy, securing a leading position in the industry.

We have a structured processes for identifying trends, but have difficulties in communicating them to the employees. This causes a lack of visibility on what we can expect in the future and limits the level of innovation in our innovation process.

Our company considers trends and technological developments, but the integration into our strategy is neither systematic nor backed by leadership, resulting in more reactive responses.

We are not analyzing future trends, but have an innovation process for employees to develop ideas further with support from the leadership, causing eventually missed opportunities for new developments.

Our company lacks systematic processes for identifying future trends and has no innovation process. As a result, future developments play little to no role in our innovation strategy.

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AW: 1.

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Calculation Value: 1.

2. Specification

This category evaluates the extent to which your company incorporates user experiences and feedback into the specification and design of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). A strong focus on user-centered design ensures that the vehicles meet customer expectations and provide a seamless, intuitive experience. This category helps assess how well your company integrates user insights to drive innovation and enhance product relevance in the market.

To what extent does your company incorporate user experiences and feedback in the specification and design of Software Defined Vehicles?*

Our company has a structured, ongoing process that consistently gathers and integrates user feedback and experience at every stage of SDV design, ensuring our vehicles are fully aligned with customer needs.

We regularly collect and use user feedback in the design and specification of SDVs, although it is not always fully integrated into all phases of development.

User feedback is considered in our SDV design, but the process is not consistent and is primarily used at certain stages, leading to partial alignment with user needs.

Our company occasionally uses user feedback in SDV design, but it is neither systematic nor a core part of the design process, resulting in limited reflection of user experiences.

User feedback and experiences are rarely considered in the specification and design of SDVs, and the design process is largely driven by internal assumptions rather than customer insights.

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AW: 2

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Calculation Value: 2

3. Culture & Skills

This category assesses how well your company fosters a culture that empowers developers and supports their ability to create future-oriented solutions for Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). A strong focus on developer experience helps attract and retain talent, ensuring your development teams are equipped to innovate and address the evolving demands of SDV technologies.

How does your company embrace and enable a culture that places developers at the centre of software development, enabling them to design forward-looking solutions for SDVs?*

Our company has a developer-first culture, offering extensive resources, ongoing training, and a collaborative environment that empowers developers to innovate and create cutting-edge SDV solutions.

We actively support developers through training programs and foster collaboration, though there are areas where more resources or support could enhance developer experience.

Developers receive some support and training, but the company could do more to place them at the heart of software development for SDVs.

There are limited initiatives to support developers, and while some collaboration is encouraged, the developer experience is not a priority for SDV innovation.

Our company provides little to no emphasis on developer experience, with minimal support or focus on empowering developers to create future-oriented SDV solutions.

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AW: 3

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Calculation Value: 3

4. Verification

This category assesses your company’s ability to implement innovative test methods that thoroughly cover both hardware and software aspects of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs). A comprehensive testing strategy ensures product reliability, safety, and performance by addressing the complex integration of software and hardware components in SDVs.

How well is your company able to implement innovative testing methods that address both hardware and software aspects of vehicles?*

Our company has a comprehensive, innovative testing approach that integrates cutting-edge methods for both hardware and software, ensuring a seamless and reliable SDV experience.

We have implemented solid test methods that cover both hardware and software aspects, though there is potential to incorporate more advanced or innovative practices.

Our testing methods address hardware and software to some extent, but they are not fully integrated or innovative, which leaves room for improvement in certain areas.

Our company has limited testing methods, focusing more on one aspect (hardware or software) and leaving gaps in comprehensive vehicle validation.

Our testing processes are outdated or insufficient, with minimal focus on integrating both hardware and software aspects in a cohesive testing strategy.

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AW: 4

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Calculation Value: 4

5. Concept & Design

This category evaluates your company’s ability to develop innovative concepts and designs that meet the future demands of both users and the automotive industry, especially regarding electrification and autonomous driving. A strong capability in product design ensures that your vehicles can be easily adapted through updates and upgrades to meet users’ expectations in a rapidly evolving market.

How fast can your company ideate a new feature, decide on it, develop it, test it, and roll it out to new customers? How does the design of your product support the development process?*

At our company, a customer can request a new feature on Monday morning and by Tuesday morning he or she can experience it in their vehicle.

From ideation to roll out of simple features, it can take up to 3 months, so we are always slightly behind the competition.

From ideation to roll out of simple features, it can take up to a half a year, making it difficult to react quickly to react to developments within autonomous driving and infotainment systems.

From ideation to roll out of simple features, it can take up to a year, making it difficult to react to developments within autonomous driving and infotainment systems.

The design of our vehicles does not allow us to roll-out new features to old vehicles and so a customer must buy a new vehicle to experience the requested feature.

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AW: 5

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Calculation Value: 5

6. Development

This category assesses your company’s use of agile development practices to enhance flexibility and responsiveness to new requirements, trends and technologies. Agile methodologies enable rapid adaptation to changes, ensuring that your company remains competitive and innovative in the fast-evolving landscape of Software Defined Vehicles (SDVs).

To what extent does your company rely on agile development practices to increase flexibility and responsiveness to new trends and technologies?*

Our company fully embraces agile practices across all development teams, allowing us to quickly adapt to new trends and technologies with high efficiency and flexibility.

We have successfully implemented agile practices in most areas, though there is room for further agility and responsiveness in specific teams or processes.

Agile practices are used in some parts of the company, but the approach is not yet fully integrated, leading to friction between the two working styles and limiting our ability to quickly respond to new trends and technologies.

Our company uses agile methods sporadically, with limited flexibility in adapting to new trends, which affects our overall responsiveness.

Agile practices are rarely used, and our development processes lack the flexibility and speed needed to respond to new trends and technological changes.

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AW: 6

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Calculation Value: 6

7. Variants & Lifecycle Management

This category evaluates your company’s preparedness to reduce the number of variants so that it becomes easier to handle the steady increasing number of vehicles that need to be maintained during the lifecycle period. Through product focused and not project focused KPIs, management can increase the numbers of customers receiving new features and thus increasing the speed of development, reducing the development costs over lifetime, increase customer satisfaction, and increase resell value of the car, making the product more appealing for customers.

When developing a new feature for a car, on how many existing vehicles can your company roll-out this feature?*

We can roll-out the feature to all existing vehicles and 100% of all customers receive and experience the feature in their vehicles.

We can roll-out the feature to all existing vehicles but less than 50% of all customers accept the update or upgrade process.

Only vehicles build in the last 3 years can receive the feature.

Only vehicles build in the last 3 years and of a specific vehicle platform can receive the feature.

The feature is only available to newly build cars and existing vehicles and past customers do not benefit from the feature.

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AW: 7

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Calculation Value: 7

8. Support & Coordination

This category assesses how effectively your company manages organizational changes and adapts to new business models driven by technological trends and market shifts. Effective change management ensures that your company remains agile and competitive, enabling smooth transitions and successful implementation of new strategies and technologies.

How effectively does your company handle organizational changes and adapt to new business models required by technological trends and market changes?*

Our company excels at managing organizational changes, with strong frameworks and agile processes that enable us to swiftly adapt to new business models and technological trends.

We manage organizational changes effectively, though there are areas where processes could be streamlined to improve our adaptability to market and technology-driven shifts.

We handle changes reasonably well, but there are challenges in fully adapting to new business models and technological trends, which can slow our progress.

Our company struggles with managing organizational changes, and our adaptation to new business models and technologies is often slow and inefficient.

We lack effective change management processes, which leaves us unprepared to adapt to new business models and technological trends, hindering our competitiveness.

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AW: 8

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Calculation Value: 8

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Calculation Summary 1: How well is your company able to identify future trends and developments in the automotive industry and integrate them into its innovation strategy?

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Calculation Summary 2: To what extent does your company incorporate user experiences and feedback in the specification and design of Software Defined Vehicles?

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Calculation Summary 3: How does your company embrace and enable a culture that places developers at the centre of software development, enabling them to design forward-looking solutions for SDVs?

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Calculation Summary 4: How well is your company able to implement innovative testing methods that address both hardware and software aspects of vehicles?

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Calculation Summary 5: How fast can your company ideate a new feature, decide on it, develop it, test it, and roll it out to new customers? How does the design of your product support the development process?

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Calculation Summary 6: To what extent does your company rely on agile development practices to increase flexibility and responsiveness to new trends and technologies?

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Calculation Summary 7: When developing a new feature for a car, on how many existing vehicles can your company roll-out this feature?

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Calculation Summary 8: How effectively does your company handle organizational changes and adapt to new business models required by technological trends and market changes?

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