Articles by Jim Saker

Thoughts about the risk of distress sales caused by governments that set short-sighted and disruptive targets to rapidly shift consumer habits from AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University's business school and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry.

Regular contributor professor Jim Saker, director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University and president of the Institute of the Motor Industry, muses on motor retailers' need to spend as much time on communicating strategy as they do communicating objectives in his test monthly article for AM.

Professor Jim Saker ponders the risk to UK car supplies from "the weaponisation of resources" in his latest monthly article for AM.

Professor Jim Saker of Loughborough University's Business School observes that an ageing car parc provides good pickings for those businesses in the service and repair sector in this latest instalment of his monthly Viewpoint guest opinion articles for AM.

Professor Jim Saker observes that the acquisition of knowledge isn't enough without the interactivity that helps instill how to use that knowledge. Read on to hear his views on human contact's role in skills development in this latest instalment of his monthly Viewpoint guest opinion articles for AM.

Professor Jim Saker of Loughborough's Centre for Automotive Management makes the argument that the motor industry is no longer in control of its own destiny.

Professor Jim Saker, director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University’s Business School, reveals his car-buying lockdown experience

I am writing this article the day after Boris Johnson announced the first stage of stringent restrictions on British life as a response to Coronavirus.

Over the years I have criticised people for talking down the potential of our sector.

Confidence is a strange concept, both at an individual level, and when one looks at consumer confidence.

Giving smaller players the opportunity to play effectively makes them agile enough to gain business against larger competitors

It may sound extreme, but how else can you describe politicians who harm our children’s future for political and monetary gain?

Training salespeople to behave according to a particular model without them understanding why will cause dealers problems

Manufacturer- or NSC-driven supply chain shortages undermine car retailers' claims of being truly customer-centric

Most people in the motor retail sector do not come from privileged backgrounds, unlike Jo Johnson, MP, and his brother, Boris