Nait Soesen schreef op 6 juli 2016:
innovators.kpmg.nl/reconstructions/to...The innovations pay off. In 2015, in curve kinked again, but this time upwards: turnover increased. But innovation continues. At the beginning of 2016, TomTom announced that two applications, HD Map and RoadDNA, had been nominated for the innovation awards of the European Association of Automotive Suppliers. ‘The ambition to grow strongly remains,’ says Oostveen.
No splitting up the company
Precisely the diversity makes Pauwels resistant to splitting up the company, as asset manager TT International recently suggested. It would impede the cross-pollination between the different operating units from which, for example, the sport watch was born.
Pauwels foresees the arrival of new innovations after the summer. He doesn’t want to say which, but the entrance hall of the head office gives an idea. Among the innovations, there’s a simulator of a self-driving car. Pauwels: ‘We now have everything under one roof to make a car drive itself. The self-driving car; that is the real end game. We already foresaw that before the perfect storm of 2008. ’