Succession planning

Ennis & Co Intelligence has significant experience in developing bespoke succession plans to identify and develop internal candidates with leadership potential and, where talent gaps exist, to research the market for external candidates.

Underlining our expertise in this area, we recently published an influential research report, Skills Evolution Roadmap 2025, to examine the acute skills shortages across the automotive and mobility sector and to provide a strategic roadmap to help businesses develop their internal upskilling programmes and external talent resourcing.

Our roadmap to attract and retain talent is based on three segments of the working population: people at the start of their careers, employees in the middle of their careers and older workers who may have a choice about whether to work or not.

We also published a follow-up whitepaper, The Cost of Your Skills Gap, which provided businesses with a financial model to quantify the commercial benefit of investing in skills development and the risk of not investing.

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By 2030, there will be a global skills shortage of 4.3 million people, costing the sector £207 billion.

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Sep
“In every area of business, we weigh risk against opportunity, and when we choose to proceed, we apply pragmatic mitigations that give the venture its best chance of success.”– Andy Carroll 16 September 2026 The latest Ennis & Co report reveals the five pressure points that are critical for new entrants to succeed and where...
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Sep
Last year, our Torque & Truth research reached a conclusion that appeared to settle the matter. Third-party relationships, we found, are now essential to strategy (no organisation can deliver its future alone) and yet automotive is structurally ill-suited to them. Built around control, process and internal capability, the industry finds collaboration hardest, precisely where it...
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Aug
Last year, drawing on interviews with more than 50 automotive leaders, our Torque & Truth research found that the leadership pipeline is not ready for what comes next. The shortfall was not one of talent, because capable people exist in abundance. It was one of preparedness, caused by a mismatch between how leaders have historically...
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