Tata Motors - Innovation Strategy

With innovations and technology Maruti Suzuki tries to bring new experience to customers and to produce environment friendly cars while achieving stability and security now and for future generations. Business organizations have to operate in a competitive field. The organization’s competitive competence can be appraised on the basis of trends in market shares for which the information can be made available from various outside sources as well as through the MARUTI own marketing research department.

At the outset, one car per family is a requirement, whereas the trend is owning more than two cars. Nowadays, in upper middle class, this has become a trend to own more than two cars.

Ans: Tata Motors was a leading player in the segment of commercial vehicle market. In 1954 Tata Motors in collaboration with Daimler Benz started manufacturing heavy commercial vehicles like excavators and earth moving equipment’s. When Japanese firms Toyota, Mitsubishi and Nissan entered the Indian market through joint ventures for manufacturing light motor vehicles, Tata Motors took this opportunity and developed light motor vehicles (TATA 407, TATA 608, and TATA 709) that went ahead of the Japanese firms due to low cost, adaptable to Indian road conditions and good after sales service.

Large numbers of players are now fighting to eat each other over market share. In developing nation company’s like Mercedes & Audi are playing aggressively while BMW is not able to sustain in these markets. Another advantage for these car manufacturers is the support of number of loans available for the purchase of vehicles in developing

In the Automobile industry, many companies need to strive to make better and affordable cars. The automobile industry is concerned with profits and competition, consumer demands for styling, safety, and efficiency and it is also involved with labor relations and manufacturing efficiency. For example, in 2007, more than 73 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. In 2007, a total of 71.9 million new automobiles were sold worldwide: 22.9 million in Europe, 21.4 million in Asia-Pacific, 19.4 million in North America, 4.4 million in Latin America, 2.4 million in the Middle East and 1.4 million in Africa. The markets in North America and Japan were stagnant, while those in South America and Asia grew strongly. Of the major markets, Russia, Brazil and China saw the most rapid growth. In 2008, with rapidly rising oil prices, industries such as the automotive industry are experiencing a combination of pricing pressures from raw material costs and changes in consumer buying habits. The industry is also facing increasing external

Tata motors limited is the India’s largest automobile company, with the consolidated revenues of INR 2, 62,796 crores in the year of 2014-15. It is the leader in the commercial vehicles in each segment, and among the top in the passenger vehicles with the winning products in the compact, midsize cars and the utility vehicle segments. The Tata motors group has over 60,000 employees are been guided by the mission “to be passionate in anticipating and providing the best vehicle and experience that excite our customer globally. It has been established in the year of 1945, Tata motors presence cuts across the length and the breath of India. Over 8 million Tata vehicles ply on Indian roads, since the first rolled out

Tata Motors is launched in 1945 as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company Limited, for producing locomotives and other engineering products. Its first commercial vehicle was manufactured in 1954 with Daimler-Benz AG, ended in 1969. In 1991 with launch of the Tata Sierra it entered in the passenger vehicle market. Its first passenger car Tata Indica was launched in 1998 and it also launched the world’s cheapest car Tata Nano in 2008. Now it is involved in design, development, manufacturing and sales of vehicles and its parts. This is a second largest bus manufacturing company and fourth largest truck manufacturing company in the world

Production appears to be a constant problem for Tata Motors. Branded production of Tata motors vehicles is geared towards economical cars and not luxury, while it appears that the market is geared more towards luxury. Tata Motors branded car sells fell 31 percent from 2013 to 2014, and in 2015 fell another 24.5 percent from 2014. Production also appeared to have missed a large flaw in the Nano which caused it to catch fire. Marketing also seems to be lacking in other countries. Although Tata Motors is present in many countries, the largest portion of their consumer based is India where the company is mainly located. Although the largest portion of their sales comes from India, Tata Motors holds very little of the market share for passenger vehicles in India.

The continuously increasing economy with growing potential automobiles demand has made more attention be paid to China, while the other parts of the world seems to remain stagnant (Holweg et al., 2009). The Reportlinker website (2014) suggest that, two main reasons, growing replacement demand and rising affordability in lower-tier cities, might support the growing sales of auto vehicles in China. Luxury autos industry is expected to continue to contribute to economic growth in China. Middle class between 40 and 60 years old is the major consumer of luxury commodities, while in China the upstart among 30s consumes a lot.

As income of people is rises and once the economy gets stable, the demand for automobiles will also increase.

TATA Motors is the flagship company of the TATA group & is India's largest automobile player with consolidated revenues of USD 14 billion in 2008-09. It is the leader in commercial vehicles in each segment, and among the top three in passenger vehicles with winning products in the compact, midsize car and utility vehicle segments. TATA Motors was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2004.

enterprises such as the case company Honda. However, it does not secure, on its own,

In January 2008, Tata Motors unveiled its People 's Car, the Tata Nano. The Tata Nano has been subsequently launched, as planned, in India in March 2009, and subsequently in 2011 in Nepal and Sri Lanka. A development, which signifies a first for the global automobile industry, the Nano brings the joy of a car within the reach of thousands of families.

In India, car accessories is a new concept which has gained popularity in recent times with growing usage of high end cars. The market can be divided into interior and exterior car accessories. In the Indian market, interior car accessories are more popular. The growing youth is providing a fillip to the market due to their perceptions and preferences. Although small cars are preferred by Indian consumers, the trend of using high-tech accessories in cars is growing rapidly.

Today Tata Motors ranks as the world’s fifth-largest manufacturer of medium and heavy trucks—it has a 61 percent domestic market share in this segment—and has taken the number-two position for sales of passenger vehicles in the Indian market. It has also built a significant global presence, both through sales efforts in overseas markets (such as the former Soviet republics, the Middle East, South Africa, South Asia, and Turkey) and through acquisitions such as the takeover of Daewoo’s commercial-vehicle business in South Korea and the purchase of a 21 percent stake in the Spanish bus