Case Name :      Volkswagen Group: Driving Big Business With Big Data

Authors :           Ning Su, Naqaash Pirani

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            W14007

Discipline :        Information Technology

Case Length :    08 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

The Volkswagen Group (VW Group) had set a firm-wide “Strategy 2018,” which sought to make Volkswagen “the most successful and fascinating automaker in the world by 2018.” According to the strategy, the company would reach annual sales of 10 million vehicles worldwide. To achieve this ambitious goal, VW Group placed “intelligent innovations and technologies” at the top of its agenda. Big data, broadly defined, represented an important opportunity for the company. In this exercise, the class will be divided into teams, and each team will design an initiative that leverages big data to help the VW Group make significant progress towards its objective. The teams will present their initiatives at the upcoming executive meeting, at which time the best initiative will be selected.