Sharad Verma
Managing Director & Senior Partner
New Delhi
Sharad Verma is the Asia Pacific regional leader of Boston Consulting Group’s Global Advantage practice, as well as a core member of the Industrial Goods practice, working mostly with automotive companies on strategy in rapidly developing economies. He was previously part of the BCG Ambassador program in New York and Boston.
Sharad's work in the industrial goods and automotive industries covers portfolio and growth strategy, organization development, turnaround, and profit improvement. He has years of experience working with leading Indian family businesses on defining aspirations, the role of the corporate center, and cultural transformation. He has led projects covering product topics including market concept development, product planning and design, variant management, and market launch. He is a topic expert on the subject of M&A and joint ventures, having worked with several multinational corporation and local clients on these issues.
Sharad has co-authored the BCG report series on Global Challengers and the recent Capital Goods policy released by the Government of India. He has also worked actively with industry and government bodies including CII, AIMA, Department of Heavy Industries (Government of India), and the Steel Ministry on topics related to national policy formulation.
This paper, evaluates the various ‘vehicle-fuel’ options from a sustainability and economics perspective and presents a range of solutions across fuel types in the near and medium term.
As the economy starts to open up, the new reality is unraveling across dimensions, impacting the way businesses function.
Auto customers today are digitally native, time starved and expect a high degree of personalization. This perspective reflects on how a platform approach can generate exponential value and customer loyalty in an industry faced with evolving expectations, data explosion and rapid innovation. It outlines the value of platforms to OEMs and its various partners that will work together to meet customer needs across discovery, purchase and ownership.
The world is beset by what is clearly the worst pandemic of the past century. Both developed and developing nations are struggling with the spread of the n-Corona virus and the attendant risk to human health and lives.
Global challengers are providing exciting new models for others to follow.
Even the most powerful traditional competitors need to develop digital strategies and capabilities.
Digital capabilities put many global challengers in a strong position to challenge developed-market companies for leadership.
The economic future in emerging markets looks increasingly digital.
This report has been released by BCG in association with CarDekho.com. The report analyses the influence of digital channels on car purchase in India. Five broad themes emerge from the study. Based on these, several implications are discussed, that will prove critical for various stakeholders in the automotive industry, primarily comprising of the Indian car manufacturers, the dealerships, and the third-party aggregators.
