Participating in the Telematics Value Chain:
A Seminar on Business Models and Practices

October 30, 2001

Background on the Telematics Seminar

• Commuters spend over 500 million hours per week spent in their vehicles & the market for telematics hardware, software and services is, by many estimates, predicted to be over $40 billion by 2010.
  
  
• Despite the overall rationalization of the automotive, technology & communications industries over the last four years, a visible and practicable value chain is taking some time to emerge. The Seminar is focused on the status of that value chain and the reasons why it is slow to evolve. The emergence of such a value chain has direct implications on the business models of current and potential participants in the telematics industry: Such models have to be compatible with the value chain.
  
  
• Many of the telematics hardware, software and services providers are non-native to the automotive industry, and a need is created for a greater understanding of and visibility on product cycles, the role of standards, robustness requirements, how purchase decisions are made, cost structures, etc. in the various segments of the value chain.

For more information please contact the Center at 734-936-3528 or e-mail us at CVPUMBS1@umich.edu.

 
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