New Normal

The Covid-19 crisis has upended life as we knew it. Preparing for a “new normal”, one of USA’s largest automobile manufacturers, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), has started to re-imagine the vehicle selling process. FCA is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, and has more than 2600 dealerships across the United States. FCA has a culture of engaging with their dealership stakeholders in order to understand their on-the-ground realities when making strategic decisions. As the Covid-19 crisis forced businesses across the United States to shutter up, FCA has started to explore how they could adapt their vehicle selling processes in the “new normal” to cater to Americans emerging from their shelter-at-home period. Amongst the strategies they are considering are how they could systemize remote new vehicle delivery options for sales and test drives. FCA has been using the Emojot platform to regularly and effectively engage with their dealership network stakeholders who are at the frontline of selling and delivering vehicles, parts, and services, for the Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Fiat, Ram, and Maserati brands. When FCA needed to get quick feedback on remote vehicle delivery and test drive scheduling software options for their post-Covid19 planning, they turned to Emojot to rapidly deploy a 2-minute visual survey. Emojot deployed the campaign for FCA in less than 6 hours. The geo-map below shows the coverage density of the survey respondents from FCA dealerships who responded while “working from home”. Emojot’s Emotion Sensors™ have consistently received high response rates amongst FCA dealership stakeholders, and this campaign which was launched in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis followed the same trend, both in terms of quantitative question responses as well as qualitative comments. Since Emojot’s Emotion Sensors™ have intelligence on the front end, we are able to provide FCA with the added insight on role segmentation, and […]