Prospective Analysis About the World-Wide Strategy of Commercial Vehicles Development

摘要

The main objective of this paper is to make a prospective analysis about the tendencies of the world-wide strategies of commercial vehicles development, in relation of the current local and international scenery. It has been done a research by using the Delphi method, which consists into regulate, systematically, the presentation of questions about a specified problem to a group of specialists. In order to guarantee more representative data, it has been adopted three distinct groups: academics, OEMs managers and Tier 1 suppliers' managers. The results showed that the three mentioned groups have similar opinion about the necessity of having a product development in the subsidiaries companies; also it has been pointed the necessity of having more tailor-made vehicles, due to the intrinsic characteristics of this industry segment.