Automotive Industry Expertise

In today's hypercompetitive global automotive industry, manufacturers are looking for points of competitive differentiation. Our industry experts immerse themselves in a multitude of pertinent data sources and sophisticated qualitative and quantitative analyses to identify relevant and timely trends. Manufacturers can leverage this information to make better decisions and develop actionable strategic plans.

One key way manufacturers are looking to differentiate themselves is through the customer experience they deliver. We conduct more proprietary customer experience measurement programs in the automotive industry than anyone else, including various measurements for nine of the top ten OEMs. That means Maritz contacts 70 percent of North America’s new vehicle purchasers and service customers. As a well established leader in global automotive research, you can depend on us for outstanding auto sector expertise, valuable syndicated research, superb custom research design, and much more.

Meet Our Automotive Industry Experts

David Ensing, Ph.D.

I provide research design consultation to clients, oversee the development of new research capabilities, facilitate the continuous improvement of existing studies, and manage Maritz’ internal automotive studies. I also am leading Maritz Research’s Voice of the Customer Integration efforts.

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Dave Fish, Ph.D.

I am responsible for developing and deploying client driven products and services for Maritz Research and managing a team of sector specific and functional subject matter experts. These include standard product offerings in customer experience trackers, a standardized reporting interface, data integration, and linkage approaches.

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Scott Pimley

I provide research design consultation to automotive clients, both with ongoing tracking programs as well as new research opportunities for both tracking studies and custom research projects.  I also produce research on automotive topics that is available to clients through Maritz’ online Research Forum, and am on Maritz Research Leadership Council which develops Maritz’ points of view on various research topics across sectors.

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