The Drive for Connected Vehicle Consultants

Kevin Coleman is a highly skilled senior level project and program manager/advisor with experience leading projects with labor budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to multi-million dollar budgets across multiple industries.

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The news reports and articles (online and in print) about the emergence of connected vehicles seem endless. There were several announcements related to the connected vehicle industry segment at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show. (CES 2017). Few people would dispute that connected vehicles are the next logical step in the continued evolution of our digital world. Many have come to believe that this is truly a game-changing development.

All of the attention to this movement has not escaped the eyes of top management consultants. There are many reports, analyses and estimates that have been produced that examine this interesting development and its direct and indirect implications. It is clear by the preponderance of the information that automakers have no choice but to integrated connected vehicles into their strategies. This will create a number of initiatives that will surely involve many program and project managers.

Connected vehicles are one area of emerging technologies projected to grow significantly over the next five years. This growth will bring a fair degree of change to the automotive industry and other industrial segments that will support this advancement. Recent investigations resulted in industry analysts projecting the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between now and 2022 will be over 35%! The analysis also indicated this will result in nearly 38 million…

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