Automotive Analysis Conference Activities

Management Briefing Seminars
Automotive Analysis at MBS 2006
Affiliate Automotive Luncheon Seminar Series

Management Briefing Seminars

Automotive Analysis (formerly OSAT) participates in a week long summer conference at the Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City, Michigan, highlighting current and future industry issues. MBS draws more than 1,000 attendees from automotive manufacturers, company suppliers, government organizations, and financial institutions, and fosters an informal atmosphere for the exchange of ideas. Automotive and business leaders from worldwide organizations present their views on key industry issues.

The Management Briefing Seminars are sponsored by the Center for Automotive Research.

Automotive Analysis at MBS 2006

Global Product and Research Development: the Final Outsourcing Frontier Competing in the Global Economy
Monday, August 7, 2006
7:30 a.m - 1:00 p.m.
Bruce Belzowski
Senior Research Associate and Associate Director, Automotive Analysis

Since the late 1990s, manufacturers have outsourced vehicle modules to their global supply base, creating large system suppliers who have expanded their product development and R&D capabilities. At the same time, both manufacturers and suppliers have globalized their product development and R&D activities by strategically locating these functions in important markets around the globe and linking them through the use of information technology. As both groups begin to reap the fruits of these strategies, they are now beginning to test the waters of outsourcing some of the business processes tied to these critical functions.

Countries like India and China are developing the skilled work forcesthat may make outsourcing these processes more viable than was once thought possible. The skills needed for product development and R&D that were once assumed to be the differentiator that kept these functions in their home regions may no longer be unique to developed economies.

This session will look at recent research on the outsourcing of product development and R&D business processes in the automotive industry with speakers describing how manufacturers and suppliers are globalizing these functions and how advanced they are in outsourcing this seminal work.

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Affiliate Automotive Luncheon Seminar Series

Senior U of M faculty members and administrators, researchers from area institutes, and corporate executives meet on campus to listen to speakers, and discuss recent industry developments and related research . The audience is widely interdisciplinary, with attendees from the automotive industry, engineering, business administration, sociology, economics, history, and other fields. This series is sponsored by the Automotive Analysis Affiliates Program, and is held from September to April on an annual basis.

All seminars are on Mondays and take place from 12:00pm - 2:00pm in the Michigan League

Reservations: Bruce Belzowski, bbl@umich.edu

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