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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Jaguar Territory Rover launches InMotion, a startup studio to develop mobility apps and solutions

Corporates are increasingly scared of contracting innovator’s issue, a disease so deadly that it is usually fatal if it isn’t trapped early. And in a shot to vaccinate against the sickness, said corporates are sometimes acquiring, investing in, or incubating startups with their own.

The latest for you to hedge against innovator’s issue is carmaker Jaguar Territory Rover, which today can be unveiling InMotion, a separate “innovation” firm charged with building freedom apps and services that play on the strengths of its parent or guardian company’s premium car company.

The new Jaguar Territory Rover “spin out”, which itself may sooner or later spin out startups through the products it creates, it's essentially operating as a company in a company, and with the autonomy to innovate at the faster pace than is typical in the traditional car industry.

While Adrian Hallmark, Group Tactic Director for Jaguar Territory Rover, tells TechCrunch, a whole new car is typically 3-4 years inside making and with a new lifespan that sees it stay around for nearly a decade. In compare, the digital world enables products into the future to market in just months not years, and it’s in this particular context that InMotion has given the freedom and financial support to attempt new ideas and discover what works.

Initially those ideas - which Hallmark characterised while helping customers get coming from a to B more proficiently or in more top quality ways, but stopped less than providing any further particularly what exactly the team is already working on - are generated within Jaguar Territory Rover. However, moving forward InMotion plans to also find the wider startup area for potential collaboration.

That led me to ask one simple question: Is InMotion a firm builder, incubator or entrepreneur? The answer, says Feature, is a bit coming from all three.

Where’s there’s a fantastic strategic fit with Jaguar Territory Rover’s existing customer starting and brand, products and services put together by InMotion will likely remain in-house and carry on being solely supported by their parent company.

However, where a perception still has legs but isn’t a real good fit with Jaguar Territory Rover, there remains an opportunity to spin it out and about independently, including taking outer investment. In effect, that creates InMotion a business that aims to develop new businesses.

Welcome on the fast lane, Jaguar Territory Rover.

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