• Are you ready for your next customer?

    • February 17, 2016
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: IBIS News
    If you’re not active on social media your business is already behind the eight ball. So much trade is now generated through non-traditional media and online word of mouth that we no longer ask when the tipping point will come, we ask when it came. The simple truth is that any company shying away from [...]
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  • Germany considers emission spotchecks

    • February 15, 2016
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: Industry News
    Germany could introduce unannounced emission tests on all carmakers in a bid to reinstate confidence in the industry. Speaking to German newspaper Bild, Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt said, ‘There will be controls on vehicles in the style of doping tests (for athletes) – unannounced and every year.’ The newspaper suggested one way to carry out [...]
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  • Technology and bodyshops: Thatcham’s verdict

    • February 12, 2016
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: IBIS News
    Thatcham has assuaged fears among repairers that more autonomy on our roads will mean fewer jobs in our workshops. The vanguard of a vast driverless fleet is here and many more are following behind them, but the idea that autonomous driving will turn bodyshops into deserted buildings with no customers is misconceived. In fact, Thatcham [...]
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  • Pause for thought: Why strategy matters

    • February 12, 2016
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: IBIS News
    When change comes to an industry, businesses quickly fall into three groups – those that make it happen, those that watch it happen, and those that wonder what happened. So how important is strategy in determining which business you will become? That was the question posed by Robert Snook, co-founder and director of Business Success [...]
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  • Australia: I-CAR heads BMW training

    • February 11, 2016
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    I-CAR has been appointed by BMW to oversee its collision repair training programme across Australia. IBIS media partner, Australasian Panel and Paint reports that the programme incorporates Body Level 2, Body Level 3, fundamentals of steel and fundamentals of aluminium modules. ‘As a leading vehicle manufacturer, BMW has continued to develop and implement a range of [...]
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