Jim Saker
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Opinion 18 AprSaker: Lessons from China on hitting a target
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.
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Opinion 11 Apr
Saker: Charging up north.
AM's regular columnist Professor Jim Saker, director of the centre for automotive management at Loughborough University's business school, shares his thoughts about the UK's continuing geographic imbalance of electric vehicle charging points as consumers are told they'll be only buying electric cars next decade.
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Opinion 18 Jan
Objectives aren't going to take motor retail forward - Saker's opinion
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.
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Opinion 10 Jan
The security of supply - Saker's opinion
Professor Jim Saker ponders the risk to UK car supplies from "the weaponisation of resources" in his latest monthly article for AM.
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Opinion 16 NovService sector could be set "to take off" despite EVs - opinion
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.
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Opinion 2 Nov
What do COVID 19 and automotive skills have in common?
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.
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Opinion 11 Oct
Is misinformation shaping our view of the automotive sector? Opinion
I had just finished making a complete mess of trying to record a 25-second sound bite for the BBC on supply chain problems in the industry, when a security man from the nearby shopping complex came over and wanted to know what we were doing.
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Opinion 12 Aug
Feeling like an overqualified 'imposter' - Saker
AM columnist professor Jim Saker highlights a challenge for many looking at motor retail careers if that they don't see themselves reflected in the people employed already.
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Opinion 13 Jun
Over-pricing car servicing is not ‘customer centric’ service, says Prof Jim Saker
Professor Jim Saker has questioned car retailers' 'customer centricity' after his son's car service quotes varied by over £180.
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Opinion 11 May
Opinion: Is your HR department a barrier to workplace diversity?
In his latest monthly opinion post for AM Professor Jim Saker draws on his experiences with the IMI's Diversity Task Force to question the role of car retail's HR departments driving diversity in car retail.
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Opinion 5 Apr
Saker: a better understanding of employees will unleash their full potential
In his latest ‘viewpoint’ opinion article for AM Professor Jim Saker asserts that better understanding the diversity of the automotive workforce, and making a few minor changes to working practices, can unleash previously untapped potential.
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Opinion 26 Jan
Are subsidised car sales needed to drive automotive's green future? Opinion
Professor Jim Saker's latest 'Viewpoint' opinion article for Automotive Management (AM) considers what is needed to shift the automotive balance to EVs in the UK.
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People News 30 Jun
IMI Task Force to take 'holistic approach' to gender diversity
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) Diversity Task Force said it aims to take a ‘holistic approach’ to tackle gender diversity in the industry.
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Retailing 12 MayRegional dealers must make their voices heard
Small regional dealerships should collaborate with others and trade bodies to ensure their opinions are listened to by local and national government
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Opinion 5 MayThe challenge of diversity in automotive retail
AM contributor, Professor Jim Saker of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University, shares his opinion on the moral and economic arguments for diversity.
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People News 17 Mar
IMI Diversity Taskforce to help automotive 'nurture a more diverse workforce'
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) is setting out to tackle diversity in automotive through a year-long project.
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Opinion 8 Feb
PM's soundbites alone won't get us to 2030/35 EV aim
The future of the planet is too important to be dictated by political soundbites, warns professor Jim Saker
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Opinion 9 Nov
A belief in workplace diversity transcends morality
Director of the Centre for Automotive Management at Loughborough University’s Business School, AM Awards judge and recently-appointed Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) president, Jim Saker, argues that diversity in automotive "needs to be looked at".
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People News 28 Oct
Jim Saker named as new IMI president
Professor Jim Saker has been appointed as the new president of the IMI, replacing Graham Smith who held the position for seven years.
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Talent & People 11 AugMaking motor retailers into inclusive employers
As workplaces become increasingly more diverse, so automotive companies are having to go a step further to accommodate employees from a host of different cultures and backgrounds.
