The Automobile Industry at a Turning Point

We advise automotive manufacturers and suppliers on the transformation to adaptive organizations. With our many years of experience in automotive consulting, we build powerful, agile teams and consistently align companies with value streams.

The European automotive industry has always been characterized by its high quality standards and technological excellence. In recent years, the balance of power has shifted. With the USA and China, two heavyweights are trying to overtake us. We are convinced that Europe can become a center of modern and sustainable mobility. To do so, the automotive industry must become leaner in product development, catch up with the big tech players and Tesla in digitization, and learn to think of hardware and software in an integrated way. We are working on it every day.

What We Stand for

Together, we are leading the automotive industry's 100+ year success story into the future - a transformation to more efficient and faster organizations that create user-centric products and design environments where people can be productive.

Our Focus in Automotive Consulting

Physical Product Development

Long delivery times for components, growing product complexity and the more flexible customization options for end products are putting massive pressure on both suppliers and manufacturers. This makes it all the more important to think holistically and dynamically about value creation. In this context, the use of prototypes, simulations, 3D twins and the like is also worthwhile in physical product development in order to generate feedback quickly.

Our Focus Topics

The automotive industry is one of the most complex systems. In addition to its global orientation, the interconnectedness of the various players also makes collaboration difficult. Let us therefore take a holistic view of the value chain to leverage synergies and reduce dependencies. Through targeted improvements along the value chain from parts to component and system suppliers to OEMs, we create the basis for successful strategic realignment.

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A-SPICE and ISO26262 are certainly no strangers to you. Regulation is important, but it often leads to the introduction of complicated processes and tools. Many companies only create the impression of security and transparency. We show you that regulation can also be thought of and implemented in a different way: lean, dynamic and still audit-relevant. 

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Physical product development doesn’t work in agile? It does. Instead of several years of planning and detailed requirements management, the focus is on involving the customer and user. Let us help you think more agilely about product development in your company and benefit from rapid prototyping, digital twins, 3D printing and simulations to achieve customer-centric solutions faster.

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Embedded Systems

Whereas in the past it was enough to focus on hardware, digitization has awoken new customer demands. Traditional automotive manufacturers in particular are now facing the challenge of translating their premium aspirations into the digital world. To do this, they must change their software and electronics architecture, build up new knowledge and develop approaches to meet standards as well as regulatory requirements, and anchor software development across divisions in the company. 

Our Focus Topics

Today, a vehicle is much more than the sum of its parts. It must add value for the customer over the course of its life cycle. This can only be achieved through software, as it can be constantly updated and expanded. In the future, hardware will not only be influenced by its software, but the software will take center stage in the sense of a “software-defined vehicle”. This can only be achieved with new production development processes. We support you in it.

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By embedded systems we mean complex real-time interactions across multiple systems. Therefore, software development is justifiably subject to regulatory requirements and industry-wide standards such as A-SPICE, ISO 26262 or IATF 16949. We show you how to align software development with regulatory requirements for quality as well as functional safety while ensuring the smoothness of your processes.

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The more complex a product, the more advisable it is to maintain a lively exchange with the target group. Companies such as Tesla or BMW therefore feed new functionalities quickly and without barriers into the on-board systems of vehicles and improve them on the basis of real-time feedback. The focus on agile principles helps your company to deliver faster and in a more customer-centric way and to position itself in a strategic pioneering role on the market.

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Business IT & Non-IT

The European automotive industry needs more than innovative products and services to remain competitive. Prerequisites also include modern, fully digitized support systems in IT as well as flexible support units such as Marketing, People & Culture and Legal. It is important to align all support structures seamlessly along the company’s value chains and to develop a true unique selling proposition from this. This can only be achieved with proven methods and sound transformation experience. 

Our Focus Topics

Are you planning to introduce a comprehensive IT system or are you in the middle of doing so? In addition to excellent IT specialists, success also requires colleagues from the business and the ability to work together cross-functionally. Blueprints like SAFe® are not always the best option. With our myScaled Agile scaling model, we guide you to the best individual solution for your company.

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Can ERP systems be introduced in an agile manner at all? After all, they are usually only customized via settings and tested by the business department at the end, aren’t they? But it is precisely in ERP implementations that agility plays out its advantages, in that development is constantly along the user and thus feedback can quickly flow back to the teams responsible for the implementation.

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Agile working offers numerous advantages far beyond product development. Your support units such as Marketing, People & Culture, Legal and even Accounting also want to be attractive for employees and score points with modern working methods. In addition, a consistent focus on the (internal) customer also helps in these areas to deliver regularly and to receive feedback quickly.

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Learn more in our whitepaper.

This whitepaper provides reflections on holistically transforming companies in the German automotive sector.

Our Consulting Offer

A clear strategy is the foundation for the success of an agile transformation. After the joint strategy development based on the needs of your company, we help you to implement the strategy on team as well as on management level. What our clients particularly appreciate: Our strong operational support that gets you up and running quickly. We empower you and your employees with trainings as well as Agile Coaching and show you as Interim ScrumMaster how to move your teams forward.

Successful agile working requires a new understanding of leadership and specific methodological knowledge in the teams. With our education programs and training offers, we ensure that you can get to work with the right tools in agile everyday life. This means that nothing stands in the way of a successful transformation, because a large part of the resistance in change processes can be traced back to a lack of methodological knowledge on the part of those involved. Get ahead of this and bring this knowledge into your company now.

A clear strategy is the foundation for the success of an agile transformation. After the joint strategy development based on the needs of your company, we help you to implement the strategy on team as well as on management level. What our clients particularly appreciate: Our strong operational support that gets you up and running quickly. We empower you and your employees with trainings as well as Agile Coaching and show you as Interim ScrumMaster how to move your teams forward.

Erfolgreiches agiles Arbeiten erfordert ein neues Führungsverständnis und spezifisches Methodenwissen in den Teams. Mit unseren Ausbildungsprogrammen und Trainingsangeboten sorgen wir dafür, dass Sie mit den richtigen Werkzeugen im agilen Alltag ans Werk gehen können. Damit steht auch der erfolgreichen Transformation nichts mehr im Wege, denn ein Großteil der Widerstände in Veränderungsprozessen ist auf fehlendes Methodenwissen der Beteiligten zurückführen. Kommen Sie dem zuvor und holen Sie sich dieses Wissen jetzt ins Unternehmen.

References in the DACH Region

Physical Product Development​

Tier 1 Supplier: Webasto

Overall transformation of product development including definition of an organizational and working model for all business units with a focus on product development (from ideation to serial production)

System partner: VAT

Implementation of an agile collaboration model and creation of the necessary framework conditions in various areas (including the development of pneumatic/electronic drives)

System partner: YOKOGAWA

Bringing together the different isolated initiatives through the implementation and use of new working models to enable digital transformation

Embedded Systems

Premium OEM

Set up of a scaled, agile collaboration model and thus establishment, support and coaching of Scrum teams for the project to enable automated driving on the factory floor

Premium OEM

Set up of a scaled, agile collaboration model and thus establishment, support and coaching of Scrum teams for the project to develop a new telematics platform

Sports car OEM

Introduction of a SAFe®-oriented framework incl. support and scaling of product teams in the course of the development of flexible mobility solutions for end users

Business-IT & Non-IT

Premium OEM

Transformation of the organizational unit for internal tooling infrastructure from classic departmental structures to a self-organized product and delivery organization

Premium OEM

Introduction of a SAFe®-oriented framework incl. support and scaling of product teams in the course of the new introduction of a technology platform in marketing and sales

Premium OEM

Set-up of a scaled, agile collaboration model and thus establishment of Scrum teams, coaching services for teams and management for the development of a new, worldwide (SAP) ERP system

Physical Product Development​​

Tier 1 Supplier: Webasto

Overall transformation of product development including definition of an organizational and working model for all business units with a focus on product development (from ideation to serial production)

System partner: VAT

Implementation of an agile collaboration model and creation of the necessary framework conditions in various areas (including the development of pneumatic/electronic drives)

System partner: YOKOGAWA

Bringing together the different isolated initiatives through the implementation and use of new working models to enable digital transformation

Embedded Systems

Premium OEM

Set up of a scaled, agile collaboration model and thus establishment, support and coaching of Scrum teams for the project to enable automated driving on the factory floor

Premium OEM

Set up of a scaled, agile collaboration model and thus establishment, support and coaching of Scrum teams for the project to develop a new telematics platform

Sports car OEM

Introduction of a SAFe®-oriented framework incl. support and scaling of product teams in the course of the development of flexible mobility solutions for end users

Business-IT & Non-IT

Premium OEM

Transformation of the organizational unit for internal tooling infrastructure from classic departmental structures to a self-organized product and delivery organization

Premium OEM

Introduction of a SAFe®-oriented framework incl. support and scaling of product teams in the course of the new introduction of a technology platform in marketing and sales

Premium OEM

Set-up of a scaled, agile collaboration model and thus establishment of Scrum teams, coaching services for teams and management for the development of a new, worldwide (SAP) ERP system

We are here to answer your questions

Christoph Schmiedinger

Business Owner
Automotive

Lena Jeßen

Senior Management Consultant

Faruk Ince

Management Consultant

Christoph Schmiedinger

Business Owner
Automotive

Lena Jeßen

Senior Management Consultant

Faruk Ince

Management Consultant