Automotive Industry Consulting and Strategy

Successfully navigating the future of the automotive industry requires embracing a new mindset, new products, and new ways of working. BCG automotive consulting experts have the experience and global presence to transform today’s auto leaders and empower the game-changers of tomorrow.

It’s one of the most disruptive periods the automotive industry has ever experienced, and one of the most exciting. Breakthroughs in electric vehicles, self-driving cars, ridesharing, and more aren’t just affecting the industry. They’re poised to change the world.

Over the last hundred years, vehicular mobility has been the engine that transforms society—but companies throughout the automotive industry still have much further to travel.

Our Approach to Working with the Automotive Industry

BCG is dedicated to helping each of our clients design an automotive strategy that’s built around the ability to reinvent and reshape the industry. We help companies throughout the automotive industry:

Reengineer automotive R&D to embrace new technologies
Launch large-scale automotive digital transformation projects
Expand into self-driving cars,mobility services, and other new businesses

To help our automotive industry clients realize bold ambitions, we draw on a deep well of knowledge and experience and a global team of specialized automotive consultants.

How BCG Works with the Automotive Industry

We help our automotive industry clients analyze how major industry trends affect their business, including:

Helping to create a cleaner world
Improving safety by reducing traffic accidents
Making mobility more accessible and more equitable for all

Our automotive strategy specialists have deep industry experience and use issue-specific diagnostics and benchmarks to help clients strategize and prioritize. Then we help them determine how and when to adopt new approaches and products by partnering with them to turn those ideas into concrete actions.

Our work spans the entire automotive value chain—fromcorporate strategyand shareholder value creation to functional improvement programs andfull-scale organization redesigns.

In addition to our functional work, we’ve built six centers to drive automotive-specific products and innovation:

Our Centers of Excellence for the Automotive Industry

TheCenter for Climate Change & Electrificationis the hub for our work on electric vehicle markets and strategies and our work assessing EVs’ impact on energy, infrastructure, and related industries. We use a comprehensive set of tools to help clients evaluate market opportunities, ROI expectations, and manufacturing requirements as well as to analyze competition and industry regulation.
In theCenter for Product Creation in Automotive,we help auto companies analyze consumer preferences and behaviors to optimize product offerings and portfolios and maximize growth and returns. We use a comprehensive suite of tools to manage product life cycles and costs. Our platform architecture and technology roadmaps allow us to keep pace with customer demands while maintaining capital efficiency.
TheCenter for Operations in Automotivehouses our work with clients that want to fine-tune their automotive manufacturing and supply chain for the future. We guide clients using best-in-class tools such as model factories, mobile labs, technology demonstrations, and advanced analytics to help them develop new products, tools, and partner ecosystems.
TheCenter for Sales & Marketing in Automotivebrings BCG best practices in sales and marketing to auto industry clients. We help clients with projects in digital automotive marketing, omnichannel and e-commerce sales, and pricing and incentive management. To accomplish this, our experts work with an arsenal of marketing, sales, and pricing tools and analytics.
TheCenter for Digital in Automotivehelps auto companies build digital business strategies, end-to-end digital transformations, and Car 4.0 technologies such as autonomous vehicles and electric vehicles. It’s how we help clients adopt key digital enablers such as data platforms, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics and new ways of working such asagile at scale. In this work, we partner with ourbob3 for digital transformations, as well asBCG Platinion,BCG GAMMA, andBCG Digital Ventures.
TheCenter for Mobility Innovationcovers the new wave of mobility products and services that are moving beyond the automobile, including intermodal platforms, mobility services, public transportation, logistics services, and smart infrastructure.

Our Client's Success in the Automotive Industry

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Our Automotive Industry Tools and Solutions

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