Innovation in Automotive Industry - Boosting the Innovation Model to secure the Market Leader Position

Presentation

Our client, a global automotive equipment manufacturer, wants to become one of the Best-In-Class innovation players in the automotive industry.

KEPLER is supporting his client through benchmark insights, bringing agile methods & tools in the innovation model and through a 360° mind-set change approach.

Context

The customers’ and market’s expectations are evolving, and we must think, design and develop the products differently (reducing lead-time, being more user centric…)
The former innovation process was very structured to bring team at the right maturity level, now the maturity is achieved, and innovation model must allow more flexibility and reinforce each function accountability to face market challenges

Objective(s)

Category: Inventing New Business & Accelerating Time To Market

Maximizing ideation and enhancing creativity while taking into consideration user experience
Allowing more flexibility in the process and autonomy for the teams supported by risk management

One of the key success factor of this project was to change the innovation governance from a “checklist” approach (micro-Management of the tasks) to a “risk management” approach (relying on each one accountability), it has bring the necessary change of mind-set from management to the teams and from the teams to the management.
Audrey Berthomieu, Senior Manager

Complete Version

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Innovation Referents

Sebastien Grilli

Partner

Sebastien graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). He has over 20 years of experience in Management and Organizational consulting. Partner at Kepler, he manages the Innovation…

Sebastien Grilli

Sebastien Grilli

Partner

Sebastien graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). He has over 20 years of experience in Management and Organizational consulting. Partner at Kepler, he manages the Innovation practice in France and globally. He specializes in the Automotive and Mobility, Defence and Space, Agrifood and Pharmaceuticals sectors.
Audrey Berthomieu

Senior Manager

Graduated from Toulouse School of Economics (Master in Economics of Markets and Organizations), Audrey started her career at Airbus, with a first experience in enterprise risk management,…

Audrey Berthomieu

Audrey Berthomieu

Senior Manager

Graduated from Toulouse School of Economics (Master in Economics of Markets and Organizations), Audrey started her career at Airbus, with a first experience in enterprise risk management, then in performance management of industrial sites in Europe. Now Senior Manager at KEPLER, Audrey works mainly on topics related to the management of the innovation, standardization and development through the re-design of internal processes, the re-organization of R&D department and the modeling of offshoring strategies. She operates in the sectors of cosmetics, automotive, pharmaceutical and food industries.
Clémence Grimonpont

Senior Consultant

Graduated from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne with a specialization in Consulting and International Strategic Management, Clémence started her career at Accenture with a…

Clémence Grimonpont

Clémence Grimonpont

Senior Consultant

Graduated from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne with a specialization in Consulting and International Strategic Management, Clémence started her career at Accenture with a first experience, of two years, in management consulting for the public sector. Now senior consultant at KEPLER, Clémence works more in particular on issues of innovation management and operational excellence mostly in the automotive, aerospace & defense and chemical industries.