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

• The Center for Climate Change & Electrification is 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 the Center 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.
• The Center for Operations in Automotive houses 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.
• The Center for Sales & Marketing in Automotive brings 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.
• The Center for Digital in Automotive helps 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 as agile at scale. In this work, we partner with our digital experts for digital transformations, as well as BCG X, our tech build and design unit.
• The Center for Mobility Innovation covers 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

BCG X and AWS

BCG X and AWS have teamed up with BMW to implement and scale a critical automotive AI transformation built with customer centricity at its core.

How American Tire Distributors Pioneered Sustainability Through Circularity

North America's largest tire distributor aimed to stop the wasteful disposal of used tires—and became a transformative model of circularity. Hear from ATD leaders about their partnership with BCG.

Forvia Interiors 4.0: Creating a Digital Lighthouse for the Future of Operations

To pioneer a digital transformation of its operations, global automotive supplier Forvia partnered with BCG to define its ambition and implement digital use cases. In this video, Jean-Paul Michel, EVP of Interiors for Faurecia, and BCG’s Alex Miannay reveal how Forvia Interiors is embarking on its mission to become the industry leader in material flow management, transformation, and assembly.

How Ford Organized for Digital Operations at Scale

Digitization—when done right and at scale—yields impressive results. Discover how manufacturing companies can learn from Ford’s success as Mike Mikula, Ford’s global chief engineer, shares insights with BCG’s Jonathan Van Wyck.

BCG at CES 2024

BCG’s delegation of experts will be at CES in Las Vegas from January 9–12, 2024, to engage on breakthrough technologies and innovations. Learn more about our programming and arrange a meeting with the team.

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