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The 

clockspeed 

dilemma

November 2015



kpmg.com

What does it mean for 

automotive innovation?


Get ready for light speed…

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Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. The KPMG name, logo and “cutting through complexity” are registered 

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Table of 

contents


A message from Gary Silberg 

2

Key changes: Big opportunities 

4

The clockspeed dilemma 

6

Changing consumer behavior and a transforming  

competitive landscape 

10

 

Consumers want one trillion miles of more mobility 

12

 

Competitors are innovating at Sexy Dynamic Experience pace 

20

How to solve the clockspeed dilemma 

26

 

Facing the obstacles 

28

 

A framework for innovation 

29

 

Building a bespoke innovation engine 

30

Conclusion 32

KPMG Automotive practice 

34

Authors 35

Thank you 

36

© 2015 KPMG LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership and the U.S. member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with 

KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. The KPMG name, logo and “cutting through 

complexity” are registered trademarks or trademarks of KPMG International. NDPPS 404853




In last year’s 

groundbreaking paper 

Me, My Car, My 

Life, we described 

a convergence 

of consumer 

and automotive 

technologies and 

the rise of mobility 

services. Together with 

the development of 

autonomous vehicles, 

they are revolutionizing 

the industry and the 

way we live our lives. 

This year, we want 

to examine how the 

automotive industry 

must innovate in 

response to these 

transformations.

In the last 100 years, the auto industry 

has been at the forefront of innovation, 

building a powerful base of knowledge 

along the way. From the Model T 

to mass production to automatic 

transmissions and beyond, the car 

has evolved into an amazing blend 

of road machine and sophisticated 

computer. Add to that a dazzling array 

of the latest technologies—sensors, 

cameras, radar, lidar, and sophisticated 

chipsets. It’s clear we have witnessed 

profound change.

And yet, despite all this astonishing 

innovation, we believe the next 

decade will produce as much change 

as the previous century. In less than 

five years, cognitive computing 

has advanced from a novelty to a 

commercialized means for solving 

problems. In 2014, bioengineers 

developed a circuit modeled on the 

human brain: 16 “neurocore” chips 

that simulate a million neurons 

and billions of synapses, able to 

process information 9,000 times 

faster than a PC and with 40,000 

times the energy efficiency. In April, 

IBM declared that we have begun 

“a golden era” that will lead to the 

development of a practical quantum 

computer. Combined with near-record 

levels of capital investment in start-

ups, the picture becomes clear: we 

are entering a time of accelerated 

innovation, at a pace unprecedented in 

modern history.

For companies to thrive in this new 

environment, they must solve what 

we call “the clockspeed dilemma.” 

What is the clockspeed dilemma? 

Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity 

makes the point simply enough. 

Einstein taught us that time is relative.

It sure is in the auto industry. 

Car companies obey a pace—a 

clockspeed—required of capital-

intensive powertrain plants, stamping 

plants, and assembly lines, to ensure 

cars work at Six Sigma quality every 

time and all the time, from -40 to 

130 degrees Fahrenheit. Now they 

must also embrace a far faster 

clockspeed—actually, multiple faster 

clockspeeds. The faster clockspeeds 

are the result of new players entering 

the ecosystem, from technology 

giants to start-ups. Some of the new 

competitors operate at a much larger 

economy of scale. All of them fuel 

customer demands for cars to be 

repeatedly new, exciting, and sexy 

while still holding to the standards of 

Six Sigma quality. Thus the clockspeed 

dilemma: the need to serve two 

different paces at once.

Imagination 

is more 

important than 

knowledge.  

— Albert 

Einstein

A message from Gary Silberg



Source: Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions 

and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97

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© 2015 KPMG LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership and the U.S. member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International 



Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. The KPMG name, logo and “cutting through complexity” are registered 

trademarks or trademarks of KPMG International. NDPPS 404853




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