Manufacturing and Automotive
With its variety of markets and products, the manufacturing industry faces various strategic challenges, such as product development and positioning, market entry, and dealing with disruptive technological innovations. Just as the distinct markets are individual, the strategic challenges of our clients are specific.
We have been supporting executives in the manufacturing and automotive industry since 2010, using our process of understanding and analyzing the strategic interactions of various stakeholders, such as competitors, suppliers, dealers, major customers, market entrants, unions, and regulatory forces.
Aspects we have dealt with in the Automotive and Manufacturing industry
Labor Negotiation
Asian market entry
Industry landscaping
Multi-brand strategy
Competitive positioning
Customer market power
Strategic outsourcing
Repositioning strategy
Defending from takeover
New product introduction
Copy cat defense strategy
Maneuvering in a Price war
Industry endgame simulation
Handling a powerful customer
Developing industry standards
Handling a dominant competitor
Assessing a disruptive strategy
Major asset sales and spin-offs
Reaction to patent infringement
Handling an aggressive competitor
Regulatory strategy approvals
Product Development and specification
Introduction of new production process
Locking in a market against competitors
Systems business and systems unbundling
Responding to a competitor’s new product
Disruptive technology impact and management
Defense / Counter strategy against competitor move
New market entry, also from and into foreign industries
Assessment of market / competitive fitness of new technology
Evaluation of new technology introduction on competitive dynamics
Market consolidation and assessing prerequisites for industry recovery
Strategic alliances, joint ventures, and partnering: forming and ending them