Automotive & Transportation

Innovation is driving transformation in the Automotive & Transportation sector, with global R&D spending at over $100 billion and growing 6% per year.

This transformation is being driven by a combination of new technologies (e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomy & safety, digitization, power systems, fuels, materials science, additive manufacturing) and changing environments (e.g., sustainability, rental business models, regulation, new technology entrants, global competition and growth in emerging economies). Most significantly, the sector is transitioning to hybrid physical + digital solutions, with software development now accounting for over 40% of R&D spend, for both OEMs and tier 1&2 suppliers.

With so much change and opportunity, executives will need proven best practices to deliver a successful innovation program.

How we help

We work with Automotive & Transportation clients to equip them with the processes, skills and tools proven to deliver successful innovation results:

Innovation Performance Assessment.

Many clients start with our Performance Gap Assessment service to identify their highest impact opportunities and improve innovation results. This service uses our proprietary quantitative scorecard, distilled from our 30+ years of world-recognized academic research, to provide you with a credible, evidence-based improvement roadmap

R&D Portfolio Governance.

Winning at innovation starts with making the right bets, across strategic portfolios and projects, to execute your product innovation & technology strategy.  Implement our Portfolio governance program to optimize your innovation risk and return, prioritize your projects and integrate with your project Gate funding decisions.

New product & service development process.

Implement our Stage-Gate NPD program to improve your new product and service success rates and integrate with your R&D portfolio governance process.  Combine Stage-Gate with agile software development frameworks to help cross-functional teams define, build and launch winning hybrid physical + digital solutions.

Digital transformation.

Organizations managing R&D with a plethora of spreadsheets, documents and disparate software tools can gain significant cost and time savings with a next-generation innovation management system.  Our Digital transformation program will streamline your R&D portfolio and product development processes, eliminate spreadsheets and implement our certified software to automate the whole process, integrating with (or replacing) your existing, disconnected software tools and data.

Client Examples

A few of the Automotive & Transportation companies we have worked with: