We help organizations to significantly boost productivity and effectiveness of core processes, through offerings that encompass everything from digital diagnostics to plant transformations, asset productivity, predictive maintenance, resource-production manufacturing, and lean warehousing.

Autonomous Driving, Connectivity, and Shared Mobility. We aim to help all stakeholders in the mobility ecosystem navigate the future by providing independent and integrated evidence about possible future mobility scenarios. We work with original-equipment manufacturers and parts and service suppliers across all sectors of the automotive industry, from passenger-car and light-truck manufacturers to heavy-truck makers and to agricultural and construction-equipment companies. Our work involves strategic and corporate-finance topics ranging from products and supply to mergers-and-acquisitions strategies. We also focus on operational topics ranging from project management to product launch and from lean manufacturing and production to supplier management and value-chain cost reduction. We supplement our knowledge with input from research partners, creating a network of capable resources available to clients. Regardless of the specific challenge, our overriding goal is to provide clients with improved productivity, enhanced innovation, and better performance.

We advise clients on topics such as innovation, portfolio strategy and diversification, mergers and acquisitions, design to value, manufacturing excellence, and purchasing and operational excellence. Our expertise allow us to bring a fundamentally different approach to serving clients in the automotive-and-assembly business. We have an unparalleled track record of delivering client impact across a wide range of topics. We can address strategic challenges such as developing growth strategies or go-to-market strategies, but we also have expertise in portfolio strategy, sales excellence, and large-scale transformation programs.

Our operations expertise extends from capital productivity to product-development processes and research and development efficiency. In addition, we have on-the-ground experts who understand the global markets. Our product development excellence program and supply chain analysis can provide breakthroughs in efficiency and investments, no matter the length or complexity of the supply chain. We also help manufacturers design, develop, and produce vehicles, working side-by-side with development teams to arrive at a cost point that meets both budgetary and performance targets. Depending on the nature of different engagements, these and other resources are brought to bear to help solve client problems efficiently and effectively.

Managing the Buyer-Supplier Interface

The demand for technology is growing as companies across industries look for ways to streamline and speed production and manufacturing. This creates a significant opportunity for the makers and service providers of manufacturing control and execution systems, electric motors and drivers, sensors, regulators, and robotics. We help these companies capture market opportunities and address the challenges associated with automation systems, fragmented value chains, and diverse customer requirements.

We help clients design and implement manufacturing processes to increase plant performance and improve supplier coordination. We blend that industry perspective with time-tested business acumen to deliver superior results. This strategic thinking includes in-depth evaluation of network configuration, capital productivity, and plant-level information and communication flow. We have a strong track record of serving assembly specialists and tool manufacturers by leveraging the professional experience of our consultants in automotive and engineering disciplines to help build institutional skills, create growth strategies, and identify and implement cost reductions.

Managing Resource-Productive Operations

The machinery industry is quite diverse, and many of our clients face similar challenges. To effectively serve our clients, we have built a committed group of experts focused purely on machinery topics. For example, to help these companies deepen their core competencies of great engineering and design of distinctive products, we work with them to develop finely tuned strategies and detailed customer insights.

Many of our insights have been drawn from high-volume industries, but we have customized each to the environment and the challenges faced by machinery clients. The depth and breadth of our expertise is unmatched. We serve clients at every level of their organizations, in whatever capacity we can be most useful, whether as trusted advisors to top management or as hands-on coaches for front-line employees. Our solutions are practical, intuitive tools that help people at all levels of an organization generate the insights they need to address both strategic and day-to-day decisions. We work closely with clients to embed our tools, analytics, and expertise and provide ongoing support to help them build the capabilities they need to revolutionize how decisions are made. We equip decision makers in both public and private sectors with key insights to make faster, more informed decisions and uncover new sources of value.

Increasing Supply-Chain Agility

We guide clients through the design and implementation of operational strategies that will stand the test of time, while creating agility and a product portfolio that is commercially and operationally optimized. We support manufacturers by bringing best practices in supply chain management and lean manufacturing. Our work extends from performing basic scenario evaluations to complex optimization analysis of entire value chains, including the impact of achieving different economies of scale and employing varied production technologies. We help organizations to significantly boost both productivity and effectiveness of core processes, through offerings that encompass everything from diagnostics to plant transformations, order management, asset productivity, predictive maintenance, resource-production manufacturing, and lean warehousing. Our forward thinking and integrated perspective, industry expertise, proprietary research, and global convening power gives us a unique combination of assets to help clients navigate the mobility revolution.