Automotive Innovations for the Mobility of Tomorrow

Driving Cost Competitiveness: Reducing Expenses Across the Board

In the automotive sector, achieving cost competitiveness requires a dual focus on reducing product costs and operational excellence. By utilising cost value engineering, modularisation, and standardisation strategies, companies can boost R&D efficiency, decrease time to market, and establish a dependable product cost baseline—ensuring resilience and stability in a rapidly changing landscape. This method not only cuts expenses but also enhances value where it counts.

Future-Ready Product Development: Lowering Costs, Boosting Efficiency

To drive future product development, it's essential to minimise costs related to hardware, software, and processes, including critical aspects like battery right-sizing for electric vehicles. Adopting a platform strategy that prioritises modularisation and standardisation naturally enhances R&D efficiency, speeds up time to market, and establishes a solid product cost baseline. Aligning these efforts with industry needs ensures both cost efficiency and innovation.

Operational Excellence and Supply Chain Resilience: Ensuring Long-Term Stability

Achieving operational excellence and optimising end-to-end processes are vital for maintaining a stable and resilient operation. By enhancing supply chain resilience through strategic purchasing strategies, businesses can stay agile and responsive to market changes, especially in light of global geopolitical uncertainties. Our focus on reducing product costs and implementing cost value engineering helps streamline expenses and improve overall value.

Strategic Alignment: Balancing ICE and Electrification for Future Success

Successfully aligning the end-game strategy for ICE with electrification involves making strategic investments in strong future scenarios. By extending the product lifecycle of internal combustion engines and effectively addressing local market needs, companies can ensure they remain relevant during this transition, aligning their efforts with industry trends. Leveraging expertise in strategic alignment allows businesses to optimise their investments, creating a smooth integration between ICE and electrification strategies that cater to both local and global market demands.

Investment and Advisory Excellence: Navigating Complex Supply Chains and Technologies

Navigating the intricate landscape of battery gigafactories and the global supply chains for battery cells and raw materials, which are largely dominated by China, requires advanced strategies. Key components include:

• Implementing technology evaluation roadmaps 
• Developing modularity strategies for essential systems such as:
  • Electrified powertrain
  • Power electronics
  • Software
  • Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)

These measures are crucial for maintaining technological leadership in a competitive environment.

Transformational Strategies: Scaling Up and Vertical Integration for Competitive Edge

Strategic vertical integration and scaling up battery supply chains, including the establishment of gigafactories, are vital for a successful transformation strategy. These methods enable businesses to support future portfolios and gain a competitive edge as the automotive industry evolves. With our assistance in developing and executing transformational strategies, you can achieve the necessary scale and integration, positioning yourself as a leader in the next phase of automotive evolution.

Global Market Differentiation: Tailoring Vehicles to Customer Preferences

To address the varied demands of the market, it is essential to differentiate global customer preferences and refine vehicle positioning in line with brand identity and target customer segments. By defining market-driven requirements and developing a strategic portfolio, while ensuring vehicle attributes, features, and functions are harmonised, products can effectively resonate with consumers and fulfill market needs. Gaining strategic insights into market differentiation allows for the effective customisation of vehicles for specific customer segments, ensuring alignment with both brand identity and regional preferences.

Interior Innovation: Transforming the In-Car Experience with Cutting-Edge Technology

Revamping the interiors of future vehicles, including reimagining customer use cases and ensuring seamless app integration, is vital for crafting a unique and engaging user experience. As original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) vie with tech giants like Apple and Google for control over dashboard functionalities, adopting a forward-thinking approach to design and technology integration becomes crucial to surpassing customer expectations and securing a strong position in the market..

Cost-Effective Systems Architecture: Building the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles

Creating cost-effective electronic and electrical (E/E) architecture and software frameworks is key to developing software-defined vehicles that satisfy customer expectations while meeting budgetary goals. By integrating advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and employing cost value engineering, we can ensure that vehicles are both innovative and financially feasible. Our emphasis on cost-effective systems architecture enables companies to lay the groundwork for software-defined vehicles that achieve a balance between innovation and cost efficiency, paving the way for long-term success.

R&D Efficiency Transformation: Integrating Software and Hardware for Speed

Transforming R&D efficiency requires a smooth integration of software-defined vehicle development with conventional hardware processes. Implementing new governance models and clarifying the division of responsibilities among teams boosts collaboration, leading to faster and more impactful innovation cycles that align with market demands. Utilising strategic guidance and expertise ensures that software and hardware developments are synchronised for maximum speed and efficiency.

Supplier Strategy Optimisation: Enhancing Product Development through Strategic Partnerships

Optimising the product development process hinges on strategic supplier integration and a well-thought-out make-or-buy strategy. By adopting consumer-focused KPI systems and shifting to 24-month product development cycles, companies can significantly shorten their time to market and maintain a competitive edge in a fast-changing industry. Expert-driven strategies for optimising supplier relationships and forming strategic partnerships improve product development results, ensuring timely and competitive market entry.

Agile Innovation Processes: Uniting Teams to Deliver Faster and Better

Incorporating agile principles into development processes guarantees that products reach the market more quickly while also meeting the highest standards of innovation. This agile methodology cultivates a collaborative atmosphere where software and hardware teams work together seamlessly, speeding up progress and producing high-quality results that surpass market expectations. With our expertise in agile transformation, companies can effectively unite their teams, enabling them to thrive.

Sustainable Business Models: Integrating Vehicles into the Energy Ecosystem

Innovative business models focused on sustainability and circularity are increasingly essential, particularly when integrating vehicles into the broader energy supply chain. Establishing a position as a charge point operator and effectively addressing inner-city charging challenges are critical to ensuring long-term success and sustainability in this evolving landscape. Informed strategic insights are key to navigating these challenges, ensuring that sustainable business models are both forward-thinking and practical.

V2G and ESS Integration: Creating Value through Vehicle and Energy Convergence

Exploring opportunities such as vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems - where stationary vehicles contribute to the energy supply - alongside battery ownership models and customer incentives, creates significant value in the converging worlds of transportation and energy. The development of energy storage systems (ESS) further enhances this integration, establishing new revenue streams and offering innovative solutions to meet future energy demands. Strategic planning and expert support are vital to effectively capitalising on these opportunities, driving the successful convergence of vehicle and energy systems.

Circular Economy Leadership: Advancing Recycling and End-of-Life Management

Adopting digital product passports and crafting thorough recycling and end-of-life management strategies are crucial for excelling in the circular economy. These efforts not only minimise environmental impact but also showcase leadership in sustainability, positioning companies as innovative and responsible players in the industry. With our support on circular economy initiatives, businesses can thrive in this new landscape.

Mobility as a Service Evolution: Redefining Customer Interaction and Revenue Models

The evolution of mobility as a service is crucial for redefining how businesses interact with customers and develop new revenue models. This includes creating downstream value-added services and enhancing the digital customer journey beyond just vehicle sales. Embracing this change is vital for maintaining long-term customer engagement and discovering new growth opportunities, helping companies remain competitive in a fast-evolving market. Our expertise in transforming service models empowers businesses to innovate and adapt, reshaping customer relationships and paving the way for future success.